The best smartphones in the UK! by Matt Sharp

Smartphones are the big thing in 2009. Let's take a look at the best three smartphones currently (or very soon to be) available in the UK.

Nokia N97

Technically it's only available for pre-order, but the Nokia N97 is already one of the hottest phones of the year. As the second phone to feature the new Symbian Touch OS, the Nokia N97 is a joy to use, and it further enhances your user experience with a superb slide-out QWERTY keyboard. That makes entering messages, or chatting to your friends on the Nokia N97 a quick and painless experience. As well as that keyboard, the Nokia N97 also gives you a brilliant 5 megapixel camera, and one of the best multimedia players on the planet (plus access to the Ovi Store); good job, then, with all that cool stuff you'll want to put on your phone that the Nokia N97 also comes with 32Gb of memory.

Samsung i8910 HD

Our next hot phone is another Symbian-powered handset: the Samsung i8910 HD. This follows a different route to the Nokia N97, as it doesn't have a keyboard. The Samsung i8910 HD is a touchscreen only beast, and it truly is a magnificent phone. There's a one very crucial reason for that: it's not only got a superb 8MP camera, but it will also record video at full 720p HD resolution. That fact alone is enough to make the Samsung i8910 HD one of the hottest phones of the year, but when you fact in its sheer beauty, and one of the best screens (using AMOLED technology) ever seen on a phone, it only serves to make the Samsung i8910 HD an even more appealing prospect.

HTC Magic

So, two of the top three smartphones in the UK are Symbian-powered: there's the Nokia N97, with that brilliant keyboard, and on the other hand, there's the Samsung i8910 HD, with an incredibly gorgeous body and that astounding camera, which rocks the world with true HD video. The third phone, though, isn't Symbian; instead, it's the Android-powered HTC Magic. There are two key factors that make the HTC Magic so alluring, and both stem from its Android OS. First, there's the sheer user-friendliness of the HTC Magic, combined with tight integration with Google's services. Second, there's its app store. You can get so much extra software for your HTC Magic, through that app store, that it can very quickly become a completely different phone to the one you bought!