For about £170 (sim-free price) the Smartphone measures 105 x 46 x 15 mm (H x W x D) and weighs a meagre 89g, making it slim line and portable.

Inside the box you get a mains charger, manual, Nokia connection suite (for downloading and installing software/data to your phone) a USB cable and a pair of headphones which uses a 2.5" socket).

Cosmetically the phone has a shortcut button to the side for the camera and a USB/headphone port at the base, with a microSD card slot to the left for easy access. You do have to remove the battery cover to get access to the sim slot mind.

Even at this early stage we have to say that there is something about the classic that just feel right when you place the device in the palm of your hand.

Even more impressive is the list of features that are included, some of which you would expect to find on more expensive models. For a start you get Quad-Band EGSM and 3G HSDPA support (3.6Mbps), so if your sim card supports the latter you can download at broadband speeds.

You also have a 2MP camera which includes a built-in flash and there is a front facing camera for 3G video calls. Image quality was not bad - with reasonably quick shot time to match - the flash support did help taking images in low light conditions, but its night shots were a touch grainy for our liking.

The only thing missing from the Classics armour is the lack of Wi-Fi connectivity, but it’s something you can live without, especially if you are just after a low priced spare phone with high-speed 3G support.

General performance was great - thanks to the 369Mhz CPU - and we had no problems opening programs, listening to music and watching videos (even on the dinky 2" 240 x 320 display).

Its keys were a little bit small, with the menu key being harder to press than the others, but they were still responsive when texting.

You get around 35MB of free memory to play after all the applications have been taken into account, but there is room to add a microSD card (it can except 2GB cards, possibly more).

On the subject of applications you get all the basic ones included with the phone, such as Quick office for viewing office style documents and a basic music application to get you started (but being a budget phone the player does not support album art).

We found the call quality to be clear during calls, even with our Orange test sim which does struggle to get a signal around our test area.

But like most Nokia phones its battery life is not the best, with a claimed life of only 3 hours of talk time and 8 days of standby. However we feel this is optimistic as leaving the phone on standby after making the odd call and browsing the web previously, we got about two days use out of the phone.