Cell phones have become more popular due to the convenience of reaching your near and dear ones almost anytime and anywhere. The variety of designs and sizes of mobile phones available today is giving a hard time to the mobile manufacturers, as they have to work even harder on the designs and looks of the cell phones and keep on innovating incessantly. As a result more importance is being given to the designs of mobile phones than the features and quality.

With an incredible array of functions like storing contact information, make task or to-do lists, track your appointments, set reminders, calculator, send or receive e-mail, get latest information on everyday news, entertainment, stock quotes from the Internet, play simple games while you are free, integrate other devices such as PDAs, MP3 players and GPS receivers cell phones are becoming popular day by day. You can find a wide range of mobile phones specifically designed to fulfill your multimedia needs. You can get these and more, as there’s a stiff competition among the manufactures to provide the best to their customers. The features like MP3/MP4 player, Bluetooth, email, camera, etc. are common in the latest handsets.

Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and LG mobile phones are competing against each other by bringing stylish and seek designs to provide the best to the consumer.

Nokia Corporation is currently the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile telephones. Other mobile phone manufacturers include Audiovox (now UT Starcom), Benefon, BenQ-Siemens, High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC), Fujitsu, Kyocera, 3G, LG Mobile, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Pantech Curitel, Philips, Research In Motion, Sagem, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Siemens, Sierra Wireless, SK Teletech, Sony Ericsson, T&A Alcatel, Toshiba, Verizon, and Apple.

Here’s a sneak peak on tomorrow’s cell phones.

There is one with no buttons but operates only on gestures. Get hold of the one studded with diamonds and a secret compartment. Pushing on one of the precious stones unlocks a secret compartment that can be used for carrying small valuables. Still in the conceptual phase, this handset has no buttons. Instead, it uses sensor technology to let users dial numbers or open applications with signs and gestures. It also recognizes body parts, hold it near your cheek and answer a call.

You can drive without fear of the cops, with this new wristwatch phone that has a speaker button so that you can talk while driving.

There’s another handset that features a rotating screen, which can be set up like an easel for effortless typing, and comes with a keyboard attachment.

Another cell phone from Philips has a separate display that uses electronic ink and can be viewed in broad daylight. Still in prototype stage, this device is ideal for watching movies on your mobile.

The latest in cell phone world is the FingerWhisper technology that turns hands into handsets! It converts voice into vibration, and then conducts vibration through the bones in the user’s hand, thus making the hand a type of receiver.

How about showing off to your friends, images on your body? Instead of sending photos from camera phone to camera phone, Nokia allows users to display images on their bodies. By transferring images from your phone to the Imagewear wirelessly, users can literally wear the photos, and show them to friends.