The Nokia X3 Touch and Type is in our opinion a fantastic little phone, which converges the best of a touchscreen with the best of a normal mobile phone, resulting in an enjoyable and easy to use device.

The phone looks great, it is well designed, sleek and very thin, and quite light weight too. Two thirds of the front is taken up with the touchscreen and the final third is a keypad with pick-up and put-down call buttons and a mail and play music button, giving fast access to these functions.

The touchscreen is a resistive touchscreen, however it is unusually very responsive and could easily be mistaken for a capacitive one, making it great to use. Coupled together with the keypad for typing text messages, email, etc it gives it a bit of a cool edge, and makes it faster to navigate through the phone.

The phone is equipped with a 5 megapixel camera, the picture quality is pretty decent for a phone of its size. It also has an FM radio, microSD card slot, 3G and WiFi. Unfortunately there is no GPS.

The phone runs on the Symbian S40 operating system, which works well as a touch based system on a small phone. However the small screen does mean that web browsing is not the best experience and the phone is more suited to using social networking applications.

Overall we think this is a great little phone, well done Nokia. It is an exciting and fun phone to use, and the combination of the touchscreen and keypad just works. We recommend this phone to those who love texting using a keypad but want the usability of a touchscreen and for those looking for a general day to day phone. We think Nokia's Touch and Type mobile phones could be a big hit.

Summary:

• Good points: Great design
• Bad points: No GPS
• Others to consider: Nokia C5
• Free on contract with: All networks via Carphone Warehouse