We've got no complaints about the quality of normal mobile calls as they sounded very crisp and clean and the handset has decent reception. Battery life isn't bad either as you'll get around 4 hours 30 minutes of talk time out of it.

Weaknesses
The phone's camera is relatively basic. It has a 2-megapixel resolution and while pictures taken outdoors in sunlight don't look too bad, there's no flash, so snaps shot indoors in less bright conditions tend to look very fuzzy, with lots of digital noise.

Also, the phone's keypad is on the small side and the keys feel squashed together, so it takes a while to get used to for texting.

The screen certainly isn't the best we've seen either. The resolution is OK, but the colours tend to look washed out. This seems to be partly due to the backlight, which even at its brightest setting isn't actually all that bright.

Conclusion
It's hard to complain about this handset, as it's relatively cheap at around £50 pay as you go (or free on contract) and provides a very straightforward way to make free calls to other Skype users while on the move. Of course, you can't use its Skype functionality to make cheap calls to normal phone numbers, but then you can't really blame 3 for partly protecting its own call revenue.

Edited by Jason Jenkins
Additional editing by Jon Squire