Weighing in at 71g and measuring 84 x 30 x 19.9 mm you could easily put this in your pocket and forgot it was there. It does have a tiny LCD screen for viewing incoming calls, watching videos or browsing websites which will require good eyesight. Its menus are controlled with an iPod style wheel and underneath the top part of the phone is the keypad with small keys - which take a bit of getting used to.

To access the phone element you have to flip the screen just like a pocket knife (though not as lethal of course) and immediately this draws us to our first annoyance, as you look at the phone with the Samsung wording at the top and flip the screen, the phones keypad is upside down which means you have to move the phone around in order to use it.

The second annoyance is the camera position, when you take pictures for the first time your hand is naturally placed over the lens which leaves you pondering why your screen is dark, again its down to adjusting the way you use the phone and in fairness its amazing they got a camera/video recorder on the phone in the first place, saying that at 1.3 mega pixels you are not going to get amazing quality pictures and the lack of auto focus/flash makes things a challenge (we have added a picture taken with the Samsung below).

One thing you will definitely want to alter is the annoying sound effects that occur when pressing keys or using the cameras zoom function.

Battery performance varies with what you are doing with the phone, in general terms it is claimed to last 16hours when using the MP3 player but when you do a few tasks at the same time, for example play a game whilst listening to music this drains the battery pretty quickly – charging the unit can at least be done using the USB phone but then you can’t use the phone when its in this mode.

From an audio point of view the Samsung excels it supports MP3/ ACC/ ACC+/ e-AAC+/ WMA, plus you get two music players, one for when the phone is running and the other when the lid is closed and its graphic equaliser allows you to get the most from your music.

You have a set of headphones that come with the device (which also doubles for a hands free kit) as it uses a propriety interface which is shared with the USB interface cable, however the top part comes off allowing you to plug in a pair of your own earphones with a 3.5" jack interface.

Continuing its application features you get a video player which supports MPEG4 and H.263. Watching movies on the tiny screen is something of a challenge but again after a while you tend to get used to this.

With 1GB of flash memory at your disposal you can use DVD studio software to squeeze a complete film or fit hundreds of MP3's onto the player. It’s a lot of storage but with no external expansion available it may prove problematic down the road.

Other applications are made up of Java Games, memo, contacts, image viewers, voice recorder, calendar, world clock, Timer and converter (for currency. weights etc). Viewing any of these on the small screen is made easier by the use of scrolling text.

The jewel in the crown comes from the excellent PC Studio software, this allows you to upload your camera images or videos to a ublog. Create your own multimedia content, sync your PC’s contacts to your phone (which can handle up to a 1000 contacts) and convert videos to the phones screen size.

The phones internet is handled by an xhtml browser using Wap 2.0. There is Edge support but with no 3G support your browsing will be limited.

Reception using our Orange Sim was fine, voice calls from the phone were good, with people at the other end saying that our voice was clear.