Orange's SPV E650 has a slide-out Qwerty keypad, making it a full-featured Windows Mobile 6 smartphone in a standard handset. Five lucky winners will get one in Day 9 of our Christmas competition.

The Orange SPV E650 packs the features of a Windows Mobile 6.0 smartphone into a normal handset, a neat combination if you don't want to carry around a massive device. We've got five of the sleek mobiles on offer in this day's competition.

At first glance, the E650 looks like a normal handset with a standard numbers-and-letters layout. But it also has a hidden Qwerty keypad, which slides out easily if you want to write email or Word documents, or type anything more complex than a text message.

That all adds up to a space-saving, compact device — it measures a compact 101.5mm by 50mm by 17.5mm and weighs 120g. It has a generously sized screen (240x320 pixels) that switches automatically between portrait and landscape modes, all the better to display photos taken with the handset's 2-megapixel camera. For storage, the E650 comes with 128MB of memory and an SD/MMC card slot for expansion.

The quad-band GSM phone has full support for linking up to GPRS and Edge networks for voice calls and data transfers. As for personal connectivity, the smartphone has built-in Bluetooth 2.0 to headsets and other gear. Business users will like being able to access work email and the internet via 802.11g Wi-Fi. The E650 is fully compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server, and it comes loaded with mobile versions of Microsoft Excel and Word.

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