The Samsung X830 (or the Samsung Blush as the pink version has been nicknamed) is a tiny music player phone with a rotating design. There's no doubt that this is a very trendy, cool-looking phone that is packed with features and is a real head turner. Available in black, white, pink and orange, the X830 is one of the smallest and lightest phones ever. When closed, all you can see is the screen and the click wheel used for navigation and controlling the music player. Swivel the phone open, and you can make calls and have access to a full keypad.

Now it has to be said that rotating design phones are not new, and have a sad history. Motorola introduced the V70 and V80 rotating phones a few years back. They were cool-looking phones and seemed good on paper, but were notoriously unreliable and difficult to use. Sony Ericsson's S700i was more successful, with a better design, proving that rotating phones can work if they are designed well. The benefits of the rotating design are that, like a slide phone, you can make a very compact phone with a large screen, and Samsung have really made the most of this with the X830 - it's a tiny phone! The X830 concept does work in fact, thanks to the introduction of the click wheel navigation. This makes it possible to access most of the phone's functions very easily without having to open the phone, and so the device becomes a very small music player/camera/organiser. The problems start when you open the phone to make a call. Because the X830 is so narrow, the keypad is arranged with a strange layout, with keys in unfamiliar places. With a bit of practice you can get used to this, but the other problem is that the phone becomes very long and thin when fully opened and is cumbersome to hold. This is the price you pay for having such a tiny & trendy phone!

Features of the Samsung X830 include:

• 1.3 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom
• Video camera (MPEG4 format)
• Display: TFT, 262k colours, 128 x 220 pixels
• Music player (MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+ and WMA formats)
• 3D surround sound
• MP3 ringtones / 64 voice polyphonic ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Voice memo recorder
• Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS
• Java games
• Personal organiser
• Caller ID (Text/Photo)
• WAP 2.0, GPRS Class 10, EDGE
• Connectivity: Bluetooth, USB 2.0
• Memory: 1 Gbyte flash memory
• Flight mode
• Triband
• Size: 84 x 30 x 20 mm
• Weight: 72g
• Talk time: 5 hours
• Battery standby: 230 hours