One of the first three handsets to be launched under the BenQ-Siemens brand, the S88 is a substantially better handset than many we’ve seen from the Siemens camp recently. Pitched at the upper-midrange market, the BenQ-Siemens S88 competes directly against the likes of the Sony Ericsson K750i.

Both the S88 and K750i feature a 2 megapixel camera with LED flash, a 176×220 pixel 262,000 colour display, expandable memory (microSD on the S88), MP3/multimedia player and Bluetooth.

Nokia 6085 is an inexpensive clamshell phone with expandable memory and an MP3 player. It’s a pretty disappointing mix of components that appear to have been thrown together.

Nokia have revise a fairly standard overall look that we’ve seen in other 6000 series clamhshells, and then added a low end 128×160 pixel display and VGA resolution camera. The Nokia 6085 comes with a microSD slot, FM radio, Bluetooth and an MP3 player and usefully it is a quad-band GSM phone.

Even though it’s an impressively slim and lightweight device, it’s considerably thicker and heavier than the Samsung X820 which is 6.9 mm thick and weighs 66 grams, but the Toshiba TS608 is more compact than the 85 gram and 12mm thick Motorola SLVR.

One neat feature on the Toshiba TS608 is the top-mounted media controls, something we’ve only seen before on the BenQ-Siemens E61 – this means that you can control the TS608’s multimedia while it’s clipped to a belt.

The RAZR MAXX has EDGE support as well as HSDPA. It’s a highly competitive handset: the RAZR MAXX comes with a 2.2″ 320×240 pixel display, 2 megapixel camera, video calling, 50Mb of internal memory plus Bluetooth, a multimedia and touch-sensitive external media controls.

The maximum download rate with HSDPA is quoted as 3.6Mbps, although coverage limitations will apply. At the maximum rate, the RAZR MAXX’s HSDPA capabilities will be ten times faster than standard 3G.