The Nokia E61 got a bit of a makeover, and has now made an appearance in its new guise, as the E61i. It's a bit sleeker, a bit shinier, and a bit better. Ashley takes a look.

Nokia have spent a great deal of R&D money trying to emulate the success of the 6310i, that black and white screen, indestructable phone that still goes for a fortune on eBay. So, this is what they've come up with - an indestructable phone with a colour screen. Genius.

It's a mobile phone! It's a smartphone! It's not 3G! It's HP's iPAQ 500 series Voice Messenger smartphone.

Can you tell I've got new mobile fatigue yet? Just in case you haven't, and you're desperate for the latest news on portable telephonics, I will endeavour to take this post seriously. While the iPAQ has got "VoIP, "push" email, voice-to-text recognition, the Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system ... a 1.3 megapixel camera, wi-fi, Bluetooth, USB, and a microSD slot," it's not just like all the other new phones with exactly the same features. That's because it doesn't have a QWERTY keyboard, unlike every other business phone in the universe, because it operates using voice recognition. How '80s vision of the future.

American readers can get their sweaty mitts on it at some point this Spring, for around $400, but international readers will just have to do without for the foreseeable.

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Those Nokia bods have been busy making lots of phones. Not quite as busy as the R&D team over at Motorola (or so it seems from my entirely unscientific feeling about which company's name I've typed the most today), but busy enough.

If you're too glam for a dad phone, and completely uninterested in any of the new offerings from the E-series, how about the N77? The N77 is a multimedia TV mobile phone for the discerning lady. It comes with DVB-H technology, a dedicated TV key, and a powerful internal antenna to keep your mobile TV mobile. On your mobile. You also get "a 2.4inch wide screen capable of displaying 16 million colours, built-in interactive TV functionality, the ability to pause live TV for up to 30 seconds, 2GB of memory, integrated stereo speakers, and a 2 megapixel camera."

Of course, if you live in England, where we don't use DVB-H for our digital telly, you've got a fat lot of nothing. Yay.

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Fancy a brand new Motorola but not so sure you need the high speed connectivity of HDSPA? You're sorted, thanks to the MOTOSLVR L9.

The Tech Digest boys have taken a proper look: "[The MOTOSLVR L9 is] a GPRS/EDGE handset with an integrated music player, FM radio and a stylish design with mirror-reflective finish. The FM radio supports RDS for station information on the go, while Bluetooth lets you play your music player tunes wirelessly. Also featured is a 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, video recording with 4x zoom and full-screen landscape playback.

"The L9 also uses Motorola's new CrystalTalk technology, making it easy to hold conversations in noisy environments. There's 20MB internal memory, with a microSD slot to boost further."

It's due out in late Spring, but we don't have any other info at the moment.

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Phones! Everywhere! Millions of the buggers, and they just won't stop! No, it's not a cyber-future Gibson-esque nightmare, it's 3GSM. And it's more like a lovely dream, where you're on a desert island with Johnny Depp, there's still plenty of rum, and your laptop's picking up a WiFi signal so you can put all the pics of you and Johnny up on flickr.

Fantasies aside, Nokia have launched three new E-series phones. They all have quad-band GSM, are 3G friendly, and have Wi-Fi connectivity. Want more info? Tech Digest have done a full run-down of the phones and their specs. I'm just here to point you to it and waffle on about Jack Sparrow.

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Fancy a basic phone? Looking to get an elderly relative mobile without much in terms of bells and whistles? Nokia have the answer. They call it the 3110 classic. Tech Digest calls it the dad phone.

In terms of bells and whistles, the 3110 classic has got a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player, FM stereo radio, USB and Bluetooth connectivity. As far as simplicity goes, it's pretty indestructible, it comes with a colour screen, and it's designed to be reliable, not fashionable.

What more less could you want? Look for it in shops in a few months' time.

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If you're the sort of person who's easily lost then you'll be very excited by Nokia's 6110 Navigator phone, even if it is a little fugly.

Basic on the looks front, the 6110 is designed to get you where you want to go, be it on foot or by vehicle, and does so with turn-by-turn 3D navigation. You can search for nearby services, find destinations, or look yourself up so you can be sure of where you are.

You'd taken yourself off to rehab, done the twelve steps, and were pretty proud of your progress, weren't you? Prepare to take twelve steps back, dear, for Research in Motion have brought out a new BlackBerry, and it's after your thumbs.

According to the Tech Digest boys, who've actually been able to take a look at the new BlackBerry 8800: "The 8800 is a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE device with Bluetooth 2.0 and a 320 x 240 display with "vibrant colour" - good enough to view detailed directions on the bundled BlackBerry Maps application, a handy tool that ties in with other applications - find someone in your address book and Maps will show you how to get to them.

Motorola have pwned everyone at 3GSM. If this were a certain Counterstrike server, the theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly would be playing as you read this.

Not only have they invented the face-fitting phone and launched some of the slickest-looking new phones we've seen for a while, but they've also used 3GSM to increase their Q range of smartphones. Two new phones, the Q q9 and the Q gsm, both of which are fully customisable and can run your choice of more than 300 applications. Tech Digest has all the specs you want.

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We know the specs, we know the hype, but what's it like seeing the Prada phone in the flesh? I took a very brief look at it, which it is now my pleasure to share with you. Overall impressions are that this is not the phone I thought it was - it's better. Designer partnerships have a habit of being a bit gimmicky in the mobile phone world, but Prada seem to have really been involved from the beginning, rather than sticking their logo on at the end. And there really is no sign of a keypad - it's touchscreen in the truest sense of the word. Yes, it's true, I'm a little bit in love.

I thought I'd seen it all. Candybars, bricks, clamshells, slidy phones, smartphones, rotating phones, concept phones, and even phones that are really your hand.

But now Motorola have come up with a phone that fits your face. It slides open, and its specially-designed contours fit the curve of your face. As long as you're not the Elephant Man, presumably.

As far as specs go, it's got HDSPA connectivity, stereo Bluetooth, a built-in music player, a 2MP digital camera with dedicated side camera key and MPEG-4 video recording. The phone is also Sky-friendly, which means you get Sky's mobile content services - on-demand clips plus to Sky's range of live mobile TV services via Sky's 'Anytime' application. The 90MB memory may sound a little piddly for an entertainment phone, but it can be expanded to 4GB via MicroSD.

Out in April, but no price yet.

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I look at the new Motorola RIZR Z8 at 3GSM. It's ergonomically designed, as well as featuring some top spec video features. And more importantly, I discover that the correct way of saying RIZR is 'riser'. To rhyme with 'slider', see?

3GSM is now well underway, and as well as all the videos and audioblogging we've been doing, we've also been producing actual articles on the phones we've seen. Bet you weren't expecting that!

First up is Motorola's MOTOKRZR K3, an HDSPA clamshell. As well as sleek good looks and impressive download speeds, the K3 brings you two integrated digital cameras (an internal VGA camera for video calls and a 2MP digital camera with 8x digital zoom for snaps), USB 2.0 connectivity, 64MB of onboard memory, a microSD slot and stereo Bluetooth wireless technology.

The phone will be out in the next few weeks, but pricing and operators have yet to be announced.

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I look at the SLVR L9, one of Motorola's new multimedia handsets. This one packs some serious storage, including the capability to work with one of the new MegaSIMs - more details of which can be found on the video, funnily enough.

I took a quick glimpse at the LG Prada phone, which is currently hiding behind glass on the LG stand here in Barcelona. However, I'm getting up close and personal with it in about an hour, so after you've swooned at this video, get yourself ready for a second hit shortly.

I take a look at the KRZR K3 from Motorola, which features HSDPA for instant media downloads. It's a clamshell in the style of the previous KRZR, but packs in more techy stuff, for no more millimetres. Magic.

Ashley takes a look at the new Samsung Ultra Mobile PC, the SPH P9000, which features WiMAX, for decent internet speeds regardless of where you are.

Hi, this is Ashley. We just landed in Barcelona, I'm here for 3GSM. It's the world biggest, best & sometimes quite controversial Mob. phone exhibition. There are many, many big names here from Sony Ericsson & Nokia to content companies & many other people who are looking at taking Web 2.0 application & importing them unto Mob. phones.

Throughout the duration of the show, we are using SpinVox's very clever technology Spin-my-Blog. It enables users to post direct to their Blog just by speaking to a Mob. phone. So anyway, we're off to the hotel now it's Sun night & looking forward to the show starting tomorrow. I'll be spending a lot my time with Samsung who paying for the trip. So expect some videos & some hands on with new phones.

You can check out live coverage from the show (and see how Spin My Blog fares) at our Vox 3GSM blog here.

Having landed at Barcelona at some ungodly hour, hotfooting it to the nearest cocktail bar, and finally landing in an actual hotel room at an entirely inappropriate time, I am now slightly less than bright eyed and bushy tailed (but here, nonetheless). It's sunny in Barcelona, although I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to be seeing a hint of sun over the next few days.

Here in the press room we're treated to bursts of 'Venus' by Bananarama, which might make me think I was in a Gilette commercial, if I wasn't surrounded by middle aged men and their computer paraphernalia.