Tech Test Drive: Music phones besides iPhone

Many cell phones offer music players, but only a select few really do music well. Everyone knows about the Apple iPhone, but it's not the only music phone in town. Other smartphones make pretty good audio players, too.

HTC Nexus One by Google

The good: The Nexus One has a gorgeous display, a lightning-fast processor and a loaded feature set. The enhanced voice capabilities worked flawlessly, and the phone delivers solid performance. Access provided to Amazon MP3 store.

The bad: Like other Android phones, the Nexus One forces you to store apps on the internal memory. The media player remains average, and it's missing some wanted features like hands-free Bluetooth dialing. Outlook Calendar syncing is not available.

The bottom line: It doesn't have all the features we'd like, but the Nexus One greatly enhances the Google Android family with a fast processor, good call quality and improved voice control features. What's more, we love that all versions of the phone will be unlocked.

Sony Ericsson Aino

The good: The Sony Ericsson Aino has a beautiful display, an intuitive interface, great multimedia features, Remote Play compatibility, Wi-Fi, GPS with Google Maps and geotagging, and good call quality. We also like that it comes with a desktop charging dock