Sagem might not be everybody's first thought when thinking of a maker of mobile phones, but the company produces some good handsets for those on a budget. The My511X is a case in point, though it is let down by a couple of things.

You'll need a Pay As You Go SIM, and the handset is available from Woolworth and Argos with an Orange SIM.

This is a tri-band mobile phone with few frills. It is a neatly designed candybar-style mobile, not too tall at 107mm, not to wide at 46mm and quite thin at 11mm. It weighs 81g which is definitely on the light side for a mobile phone.

The screen is quite small at just 1.8 inches corner to corner, but most budget handsets cut corners on screen size and it is perfectly usable. The flat numberpad is not Sagem's finest point of design. The keys are small and we found them sometimes unresponsive. If you like to text at speed you may find the keys just aren't up to the task.

This is a phone with pretensions to replace your portable music player and the navigation button, which is a rather nice-looking silver ring sitting against the black front shell of this phone, has integrated playback control. A button dedicated to launching the music player is on one side of the phone. Press it and playback starts at whatever point you left off last time.

Unfortunately this only works when you are on the phone's main screen and not when you are in one of the applications. Our other grumble, which is more significant, is that the My511X has a proprietary headset connector port, so you can't use your own favourite headphones.

There is just 13MB of built-in memory, and this will need boosting with a microSD card if you really want to use this handset for music. At the time of writing this review, the phone was cheaper at Woolworth than Argos online and Woolies was bundling a 512MB card.

This phone is not just about music, of course. There is a 1.3-megapixel camera too. This resolution is hardly groundbreaking and our review sample had a bit of distortion in one corner of every photo. This could have been a one-off problem, but you might want to check the phone in store to be sure.

There is no mobile e-mail support, thought you can MMS from this phone. There is WAP support but not HTML, though frankly the small size of the screen does not suit full Web browsing so we don't see this absence as a real problem.

Other applications include Bluetooth, some Java games, a single alarm, a timer, calculator, to do list and calendar, and voice recorder.

This is a nice looking budget handset, let down by a potentially dodgy camera and unfriendly number pad. Sagem has done better, and will do so again.