The Nokia 6151 is a 3G phone that looks very similar to the Nokia 6233. It’s a classic straight design with a functional keypad and 5-way navigation key.

Despite being a 3G phone, the 6151 has a rather lacklustre specification. Although the phone has a video camera, it’s rear mounted, making video calling impossible - a major design faux pas for a 3G phone. The camera itself is really nothing special, at just 1.3 megapixels, no flash, and dodgy quality. The 6151 does have a good MP3 player and FM radio, but with no memory card included in the sales package, you’ll have to fork out some more money if you want enough memory to store more than a few songs.

In typical Nokia style, they’ve managed to combine the most basic phone functions, but have also crammed in 3G connectivity, Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera, expandable memory and a generous amount of battery life to keep you on the go between power point hops.

At only 1.3 megapixels the camera seems a bit dated compared to the Nokia 6300’s 2-megapixel offering, although it’s still ample for happy snaps at family events. Don’t expect digital SLR quality photos, with images up to a maximum resolution of 1,280 x 960, but they are enough for a desktop wallpaper or the odd print out.

The 6151 features Nokia’s S40 interface, a little different from your traditional single page menu system. The icons scroll vertically rather than horizontally, and while it’s not a bad system, we did find ourselves doing laps of the menu to check all the options because you can’t see all the sub menus in one go. Our other big gripe is with the navigation button, sitting perilously close to the number two key and on more than one occasion was accidentally bumped when attempting to scroll down lists. Users with fat fingers have been warned.

The 6151 is well equipped for a handset in this price range. It has Bluetooth 2.0, support for SMS and MMS messaging with T9 predictive text input, Java games, a hands-free speakerphone, FM radio, MP3 player, push-to-talk, a voice recorder and voice dialling as well as MP3 ring tones. The FM radio works quite well, although you have to use the included headset as this acts as the antenna. The 6151 media player was notable for a phone in this price range. It is capable of playing MP3, AAC and M4A file formats and has preset and manual five-band equalisation options. It can also play videos in either 3GPP or MPEG4 formats.