Memory-wise there's 256MB on board, which won't take you very far, but you can add up to 8GB by microSD, which is much more like it, though there's none supplied.

Plenty of Apps

There's A-GPS on board too, along with Google Maps, plus a 30-day voice-guided sat-nav trial. Other apps include Microsoft Office Mobile, allowing you to create and read Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, though strangely there's no Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDFs.

The battery was on the not very side of impressive, delivering barely two days of moderate use, though we did have Wi-Fi switched on constantly and didn't make use of Windows' energy-saving features.

Perhaps this handset needed another month in R&D to catch up with the times. It has all the hard specs that a modern smartphone needs, but it doesn't have anything to help it stand out from the crowd, and it just isn't as much fun to use as many of its rivals – and even for a business phone, that's just not enough these days.

Looks - 7
Ease of use - 7
Features - 8
Call quality - 8
Value - 6

Network availability: Vodafone, T-Mobile, others TBC