At least fashionistas will be more pleased with the addition of the tiny touchscreen. The extra display space means its aesthetics come into play, such as when a swirling images goes across the main screen and over the tiny area below as well.

Our favourite feature on the SGH-U900 is the excellent camera. This five-megapixel snapper is fairly quick to grab that all important embarrassing shot (at the same time we had this on test, we were also playing with the HTC Touch Cruise, which was painfully slow in comparison). The little touchscreen almost came into its own here, showing useful options such as flash, timer and macro. However, these were infuriatingly hard to press and we eventually gave up and went back to the main buttons to choose options.

The handset also comes stuffed with some top titles to wile away those drab moments. Gamers get a choice of racing title Asphalt2, Bejewelled clone Paris Hilton’s Diamond Quest and Minigolf Las Vegas.