Nokia E90 Communicator

The Nokia E90 Communicator has pretty much every feature you could want in a Vodafone mobile, plus a few you didn't know existed, but at this price you'd expect it.
The E90 costs $1699, making it the most expensive phone for sale in Vodafone's online shop. The successor to the 9500, the E90 is like a business version of the N95.
First of all, it's big, and it's heavy. It brings back memories of the "brick" models from the mid-90s. The Communicator brand covers business mobiles that open to reveal keyboards for thumb typing. Compared to a normal mobile the E90 is a big boy, but it's quick, surfing the Net at 3G HSDPA speeds (up to 3.6 Mbps). The phone face has a roughly 2-inch screen with 240 x 320 pixels and 16 million colours. Navigation is by a central push-pad with a direction ring around it.
Open it up and it becomes more of a work device than a phone, with a full qwerty thumb-keyboard. Along the top are eight shortcut buttons for the desktop, messaging, web, calendar and one you can set yourself. These shortcut buttons really aid the usability of the phone. Getting to the function you want is much quicker and easier than with the N95.
The inner screen is very big (4 inch diagonally, but really wide) and very clear (800 x 352 pixels, 16 million colours).
I found the operating system (Symbian 9.2) easier to use than previous high-end Nokias, probably because the extras and bigger screen make it easier to see where to go.
Feature-wise, this phone does not mess around. If you've seen a mobile with a feature, it's probably on the E90. Here's a quick but not complete rundown of the other features -- camera (3.2MP), video camera (pretty good), video calling (camera for your face is on the inside), GPS, push email, Bluetooth, infrared, Wi-Fi, media player (pretty good, though the controls aren't the best -- plays MP3, AAC and Mpeg4), high speed internet, a barcode reader, a text-to-speech message reader, voice controls and dialling, FM radio, a word processor, a spreadsheet, presentation software, and support for pdfs and Zip files. You can create text, MS Word and Excel files. There's also a neat feature called "active notes", which lets you add contacts and multimedia to your text notes. These can be linked to contacts in your address book, so when they call or text you the note pops up to remind you of stuff. The keyboard is easy to use with your thumbs or fingers. The 3.2MP camera is also pretty good. It's a business phone, so it's hard to judge it too harshly. The brownish plastic looks classy and woodlike and it definitely feels solid and well-made. On the side are shortcuts for the voice recorder and camera shutter.
Battery life is specced at 5 hours talk time, 14 days standby. Is it perfect? No. It's sometimes a bit slow to respond, though not as slow as the N95 was. It's not great for web surfing either, because the screen, while it's wide, isn't very deep. That means you do a lot of scrolling on web pages.