Now making its debut in the UK is the Nokia 6270 slider phone. It’s pretty good looking and basic to keep it as user friendly as possible. The feature list isn’t that bad either with support for MP3 playback, an FM radio and a 2 megapixel camera. Vodafone dealers should be selling them from now.

The absence of a camera in this smartphone / BlackBerry killer makes it an easy candidate for the corporate market. The M600 boasts its own push email system, touchscreen and the Symbian 9.1 operating system. The reduced keyboard isn’t the full QWERTY but instead shares two letters per key which will no doubt take a lot of getting used to. It also uses the new compact Sony Memory Stick, called the M2, and is one of the first handsets to incorporate an RSS reader which looks set to be a big thing this year.

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