Apple iPhone 3G ($199 with a three-year contract)

LG?Vu ($79.99 with a three-year Rogers contract)

BlackBerry Bold ($299 with a three-year Rogers contract)

Samsung Jack Merlot ($24.99 with a three-year Rogers contract)

Nokia E71 ($99 with a three-year Rogers contract)

Motorola Rokr ($49 with a three-year Rogers contract)

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic ($19.99 with a three-year Rogers contract)

There’s an almost endless range of cellphones on the market these days, and an equally endless number of things you can do with your phone, depending on how much you’re willing to spend on service plans. One thing’s for sure, though: It’s almost impossible to find one that won’t take pictures or play music.

At the top of everyone’s wish list is the iPhone — the most addictive phone ever to hit the market, thanks to its wildly responsive touch screen and the wild selection of software available through iTunes’ app store.

Never mind that if you use the phone as much as it wants you to, you have to recharge the thing every night — it’s a computer even more than a cellphone.

LG’s Vu is a sort of iPhone lite — a similarly sleek touch screen phone with an icon-based interface.

An especially nice touch is the shutter for the camera — placed on the side, roughly where you’d expect to find it on a real camera.

The BlackBerry Bold is among the widest on the market, a boon for text and e-mail fiends with big thumbs.

Like the iPhone, the Bold has a full range of features, but it’s all work, and little play — the way it requires that you go two clicks into the menu to turn on the keypad lock is an example of the rigorous relationship BlackBerry users have with their phones.

The Samsung Jack is another handful of a phone, running Windows Mobile with a full QWERTY keyboard.

Mobile isn’t a supremely elegant operating system, but it has the advantage of working well with your computer, and the comfort level of putting everything in the same place even when you change phones.

Nokia’s slick, solid E71 is the narrowest of the trio, and might prove a bit awkward for bulky digits.

It also uses Nokia’s own OS, which takes some time to get comfy with.

The Motorola Rokr is a pretty phone, and impressively built, with a nice haptic touch interface — essential for a sleek candybar phone with no buttons.

The software and the small screen make it the least user-friendly of the bunch, however.

But rumour has it the company is actively working to overcome this failing.

Finally, Nokia’s 5310 is a small but handy phone if you eschew text and e-mail but want to leave your MP3 player at home.

You’re going to need a 4GB MicroSD card to make that work, although the phone’s nominal cost makes that more than affordable.