HTC Touch

But without a keyboard you lose one of the most useful new features of Windows Mobile 6 Professional; predictive dialling. On a device with a keyboard or a keypad you can start typing a name or number on the front screen and get a list of matches to call; on the Touch you have to press the call button or switch to contacts first. It's only one more button press - and at least there is a dedicated call button, unlike the iPhone - but it's still one more button press than on a phone with a keyboard.

In fact, it's not really fair to compare the Touch to phones with QWERTY keyboard, or even numeric keypads. This is the evolution of the iPAQ and the iMate JAM, a stylish and lightweight touch screen phone with Windows Mobile 6 that you can use some of the time without pulling out the stylus. It has the Windows Mobile heritage; thousands of applications and push email, rather than the iPhone's online-only Web tools. Like the iPhone it's EDGE and GPRS rather than 3G, not the fastest connection but the battery life is much better than a 3G phone too. A stylish business device, but not an iPhone killer all the way through.

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