Simon Rockman's Top Tips for writing a great mobile phone review

Founder of What Mobile magazine and all-round mobile phone guru Simon Rockman has very kindly put together some tips for writing a helpful and insightful mobile phone review.

1. Start off saying who the phone is aimed at
2. Explain if it’s a successor to an existing phone
3. What did you have before
4. What did you pay for the new phone
5. Why did you choose it
6. What’s the battery life like? Don’t just say “good, or not bad”, how often do you charge it? Does it ever go flat on you.
7. How loud is the ring (this is important to a lot of people)
8. What are the games like
9. Who would you recommend it to? Someone who like music/taking pictures/a techie/ a non-techie/ an old person/ a young person.
10. Does it come with headphones? Is it a single earphone or stereo?
11. Is it your only phone? If not is it your main phone.
12. What other phones doe it compare with. Do you wish you’d bought one of those instead.
13. Try to include a joke.
14. How easy is it to do things:

• Call someone you call a lot
• Add a name to the phonebook
• Find someone in the phone book
• Send a text message to someone not in the phonebook
• Send a text message to multiple people
• Ignore a call when it’s ringing
• Put it into silent/vibrate mode
• Switch predictive text on and off
• Use the auto-word complete
• Send a picture by Bluetooth