As you can guess from the last statement the phone flips out in a sci-fi style fashion, with a flat keypad on the bottom half which is fairly comfortable to use, but on a few occasions a couple of the keys needed an extra press during texting.

The top half features a 240 x 320 display which was 2.2" in size. We found this more than adequate for viewing content such as websites and videos. Also dotted to the sides of the phone are volume controls and a camera shortcut button, which does make it a fair reach for those with smaller hands.

Rather than opt for a standard headphone and USB interface the QTEK uses its own propriety one, which makes it a bind for those who already have their own headphones.

However the unit does support A2DP wireless technology so you can use a pair of wireless headphones if you want.

Turn the phone over and you also get a small LCD on the front, which is used to either display an analogue/digital clock or your song tracks that you access via Windows media player. You also get some basic play and forward/rewind buttons for MP3 functionality and the phones speaker produces good quality.

The 1.3mp camera has support for 1280 x 1024 and it seems to have a fair few options to play with but you won't find flash support or anything fancy here. But images looked ok when viewed on our test PC - though slightly out-of focus on a few shots.

You don't get a lot of free memory to play with either (approx 12mb), so you will need to use microSD cards to expand the unit.

Which could explain why the supplied document viewers from Clearvue is on a CD ready to be installed to the unit.

From a connectivity point of view you have Quad-Band GSM/Edge/GPRS and push email support, but there is no 3G coverage here so those looking for hi-speed connectivity will have to look elsewhere.

The OMAP 850 200Mhz CPU coped fine with general windows use but its 750mAh battery was the biggest let down and considering it can function like an MP3 player you will find it rather limiting. On paper it gained a standby time of 100 - 150 hours and a talk time of 2.5 - 5 hours which is not the best.

Phone reception was not great with our Orange sim but once you get a signal the call quality was good - both inside and outside. There was little interference either but due to the size of the phone it takes a while to get used to when pressed to your ear.