With photos and review comments on a cradle and four cases, Steve has been pimping the Nokia E61i. Just how much should you pamper your smartphone? Of the four cases, and not for the first time in a roundup, the cheapest accessory won out!

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Step 1, of course, is to ditch the mono headset that comes with the E61i (why, Nokia, why?) and grab one of the half dozen stereo Pop-port headsets that Nokia now list. The E61i is never going to replace an iPod, but there's no reason why you can't stick a dozen CDs of your favourite music in part of a 2GB memory card and enjoy them in full stereo, for those long plane or train journeys.

Step 2 is to note the fact that Proporta now sell a dedicated and rather fabulous E61/E61i USB Sync-Charge cradle. This is the first time I'd seen a cradle for the E61i and I've been very impressed. It's solid and just the right weight to not slide all over my desk, with the device presented at just the right angle to use it in-situ. Best of all, the connection into the back of the cradle is miniUSB (the same cable I've already got hanging around my desk for the N95 and E90 and every other mobile device) and this also supplies power to the E61i's Pop-port charging pins. So in a stroke, I've eliminated the need to plug the E61i into either a Pop-port cable or power lead:

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