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Best music phones for the summer

The nice weather has finally pitched up -- it's a great time to get down the park, top up your tan and listen to some banging tunes on your phone. Here we present four of the best music phones out this summer, at prices to suit all budgets.

Sony Ericsson's new W760i is our highest-rated Walkman phone to date, and offers not only superb music capabilities, but GPS, HSDPA data access and a terrific camera, as well. Even if you're not after a music phone, the W760i should definitely be in your 'to consider' list.

Come on, you knew this was going to be in this round-up, didn't you? Whatever you think of Apple, its iPhone 3G is easily the best music phone on the market. It's a superb iPod on its own, but comes with apps, wireless iTunes Store downloads and 16GB of memory, too.

Motorola has been a bit hit-and-miss since the Razr first launched, but the E8 is a solid music handset. Its design is questionable, but it rocks a solid build, a 3.5mm headphone socket as standard, great sound quality, 2GB of on-board memory and microSD expansion.

Finally, the Sony Ericsson W890i is something of a classic to us at CNET.co.uk, and still one of the best Walkman phones -- not to mention music phones -- on the market. It's beginning to date a little, but still manages to hold its own in its price bracket.

Editors:

4.0 stars out of 5

Users:

2.5 stars out of 5

Sony Ericsson W760i

The Sony Ericsson W760i is the best Walkman phone to date with so many features it rivals non-music phones like the N95. The lack of a standard headphone socket is its biggest flaw, but other than that, it's going down as one of our all-time favourite Sony Ericsson phones -- and not just in the music phone category Read more

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Reviewed on 30 June 2008

Editors:

4.0 stars out of 5

Users:

3.85 stars out of 5

Apple iPhone 3G

Apple has taken the iPhone to the next level and added some truly mouth-watering features. 3G is lightning fast compared to EDGE, and GPS means you'll never get lost again. You still can't send MMS and there's only a 2-megapixel camera, which may annoy you, but overall it's a wonderful experience Read more

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Reviewed on 10 June 2008

Editors:

3.5 stars out of 5

Users:

4.15 stars out of 5

Motorola Rokr E8

With great sound quality, a native 3.5m headphone socket and decent music file format support, the E8 is a terrific music phone. It's not quite a replacement for a dedicated MP3 player yet and it will take you a while to get used to using it, but it's certainly a cut above most of the rest Read more

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Reviewed on 19 June 2008

Editors:

4.0 stars out of 5

Users:

3.05 stars out of 5

Sony Ericsson W890i

Sony Ericsson's last attempt at making a thin Walkman phone had us yearning for something more refined, and this is it. The Sony Ericsson W890i combines a slim and solid design with useful features and the all important Walkman functionality Read more

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Reviewed on 13 March 2008

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