You can take all your favourite songs anywhere, writes David Flynn.Just about any halfway decent mobile phone these days will play MP3 music. It’s been a long time since mobile phones were just plain old mobile phones.

Digital music players, digital cameras, web and email on the move, TV news channels and live sports beamed over the mobile network’s airwaves - there seems to be no limit to what the designers and engineers can conjure up and then cram into these pocket-sized miracles.

For this week’s round-up we chose four mid-range mobile phones that promote music as one of their key features. And don’t let their prices deceive you: we’ve quoted the official recommended retail prices but, a bit on online shopping using price search engines such as StaticIce  will uncover substantial discounts for those who want to buy the handset outright rather than as part of a new contract.

So what sets a music-minded mobile phone apart from the crowd? One trait is easy access to music controls such as play, pause, forward and reverse.

If these aren’t dedicated keys on the phone, they should at least be a tap of a button away. The phone’s inbuilt music player needs to handle playlists, while the phone should come with either first-rate music software for your PC or, better still, hook up with Windows Media Player so you can move songs across from your existing library.

No mobiles on the local market have native support for Apple’s iTunes jukebox, in either its Windows or Mac incarnations. This will change when the iPhone touches down next year. However, there are some workarounds to get selected mobiles talking to iTunes, including the free SyncTunes 2.0 utility (available from

You can also connect the phone to your PC with a USB cable or slot the phone’s memory card into your laptop and then drag and drop tracks or entire albums from iTunes onto the phone or memory card, but it’s better if you can automate this process and include playlists for a bit more control and variety.

We’ve mentioned memory cards, which the phone uses to store music in the same way a digital camera stores photographs (although the phones with a camera can also store snapshots onto the card). Most phones use a microSD card or, in the case of Sony models, a Memory Stick Micro (also called an M2 card).

These are usually located under the battery cover and in some cases under the battery itself - so you really want to avoid having to remove the card often. You’re best off buying as high a capacity card as you can afford, provided the phone works with a high-capacity card - some draw the line at a 2GB microSD wafer rather than the newer 4GB cards. But given that a 2GB microSD card costs less than $50 (and almost half that much if you shop around online) and carries about 400 songs you may as well buy a big card, load it up and then leave it in the phone and do all your music copying over the USB cable.

What else should be on your shopping list? Give the phone bonus points if it has an FM radio, for when you want to catch up on the news or want to have someone else choose the tunes for a change. And “flight mode” switches off the phone’s radio circuitry when you’re on a plane but lets you keep listening to music.

All of the phones reviewed here also support “Bluetooth stereo”, which the techies call A2DP (for “advanced audio distribution profile”).

This lets the phone send two audio streams, which are typically the left and right music channels, to a compatible stereo Bluetooth headset so you can enjoy quality music between calls.

FOUR CONTENDERS

4/5
MOTOROLA ROKR Z6

This is one of Motorola’s lesser-known gems. It hits the mark in just about every area but for the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack and that it uses GSM rather than 3G. It’s a solid little slider phone with one-button access to a pint-sized music player, while on the desktop it works a charm with Windows Media Player. The screen is sharp and the keys are well spaced and brightly backlit.

4/5
MOTOROLA RAZR2 V8
$749

You can get the eye-catching RAZR2 in a V8 model for GSM networks or an enhanced V9 version for Telstra’s Next G system. The music player looks good and runs fast, even when you’re listening to music while the phone does something else. And even with the lid closed you can use touch controls (with vibration feedback) to play, pause and skip through your songs, which are downloaded through Windows Media Player. Add a large and bright 5cm external screen and superb glass and metal design - and it’s hard to beat.

3.5/5
SONY ERICSSON W660i
$599

The Walkman brand has a rich heritage but this slim and stylish 3G phone doesn’t quite deliver on the promise. It has a great in-built media player with support for album art and “on the go” playlists plus niceties such as shuffle mode. You can even flick a switch for enhanced bass if that’s your thing. There’s an FM radio with 20 presets, plus desktop software to rip your CDs. But it all falls down with the keyboard: the keys are small and too close together, while the navigation button is set too deep among the surrounding controls.

4.5/5
NOKIA 5610 XPRESS MUSIC

This second generation of Nokia’s Xpress Music series mixes convenience and cool in equal parts. It’s a sleek GSM slider decked out in eye-catching gloss black with coloured fairings. The sharp 3.2-megapixel camera easily beats the 2.0-megapixel shooters in the rest of this round-up. A unique slider and play-pause button on the front panel, parked beneath the sharp 5.5cm display, control music playback. A special audio chip boosts sound to iPod levels of quality, although it uses its own Nokia software to load and manage your music.

VERDICT

Mobile phones can be as subjective as music: one person’s hard-driving rock is another’s annoying doof-doof. We loved the Nokia 5610 Xpress Music for just about everything but were not overly impressed with the Nokia software - we’d rather keep using Windows Media Player to manage tunes and playlists. Otherwise, you won’t go wrong with either of the Motorola models

The competition was upstaged by this week’s other election, but this did nothing to dampen Natalie Gauci’s elation as she was crowned the new Australian Idol at the Sydney Opera house last night.After a marathon show televised to an expected audience of 2 million - including a surprise performance by the US pop star Lionel Richie and performances from Divinyls, Rogue Traders and former idols Damien Leith and Shannon Noll - the 26-year-old jazz singer and former child television star from Melbourne won the title by a hair’s-breadth of text-message voting, beating her opponent and the bookie’s favourite to win the competition, the Cronulla teenager Matt Corby.

“As far as I’m concerned, they have both made it,” Richie said.

Gauci now embarks on the entertainment juggernaut of an Australian Idol winner. The pre-recorded winner’s single is already available for download, with an album due out next week. A national tour will follow early next year.

POSH JOSH
At a distance she looked the whole Victoria Beckham package; from her oversized sunglasses and trademark “pob” haircut to her tandoori legs. But those hoping for a surprise visit from the poshest Spice Girl were disappointed when the designer mini-dress and designer bag turned out to be faux.

Arriving early yesterday at Sydney Airport, the Victoria Beckham impersonator turned heads and, witnesses say, even had a Channel Nine cameraman convinced. The real Posh’s superstar husband had arrived hours earlier by luxury jet from Britain, with the rest of his Galaxy teammates flying in from Los Angeles at 8am.

The pretend Posh did not rate a mention at a press conference for David Beckham held at Star City casino, and spokesmen from Football Australia, Channel Ten and even likely culprits at The Chaser team pleaded ignorance about the stunt. “I didn’t know anything about it but I wish I had thought of it,” one PR flack told Stay in Touch.

Beckham will spend the next two days mixing football with black-tie events, including holding court at a cocktail party tonight at Cafe Sydney where

Sir Elton John is rumoured to also be making an appearance, playing in the sold-out game against Sydney FC tomorrow and visiting Myer on Wednesday to launch his new fragrance.

at the Opera House on December 16 when he chats on stage to the celebrated playwright Sir Tom Stoppard and the Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush. The Opera House website has been touting a tete-a-tete between Upton and Stoppard for weeks, and Upton has invited Rush to join the conversation halfway through. The head of public programs at the Opera House, Dennis Watkins, said Rush would arrive late because “it’s about Tom. It’s not about Geoffrey.”

CULTURED JOCKS

Rugby union players are better known for their toned calf muscles than their appreciation of art, but tomorrow night some of Australia’s greatest players will be nibbling canapes at the boutique Richard Martin Art Gallery in Woollahra. The former Wallabies captains John Eales and Nick Farr-Jones will speak at the opening of the first Australian exhibition of the French rugby captain-turned-artist Jean-Pierre Rives. Eales told Stay in Touch he doesn’t know much about art, but he knows what he likes; one of Rives’s paintings has pride of place in his study.

More than a few of Eales’s former sporting colleagues have gone on to artistic endeavours. He trained with the singer

Pete Murray at the Brothers Rugby Club in Brisbane, and played school sport with Sneaky Sound System’s Angus McDonald and with Tyrone Noonan from the band George.

THE RATINGS RACE

Our popular culture correspondent, David Dale, was shocked to discover he’d been a more accurate predictor of the election result than most pollsters. On this page last Monday, Dale used prime-time audience shares to argue that if Channel Nine was John Howard and Channel Seven was Kevin Rudd, the “two-party-preferred” vote would give Rudd just over 52 per cent and Howard just below 48 per cent. Dale can’t wait for the next election to see if ratings-based psephology is a marketable methodology. Seven won last week with 28.9 per cent of the prime-time audience, with Nine on 26.5, Ten on 20.8, ABC on 19 and SBS on 4.8. The most-watched programs were

1. City Homicide (7) 1.76 million; 2. Surf Patrol (7) 1.69m; 3. Border Security repeat (7) 1.68m; 4. Dancing With The Stars (7) 1.65m; and 5. CSI (9) 1.44m.

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THREE QUESTIONS
Jerry Seinfeld

Is there one Seinfeld line that keeps following you around?

That Seinfeld is a show about nothing. It’s beyond my comprehension that someone could use that again. It’s so tired. They’ve been saying that about the show since ‘95. And it was never true.

If comedy hadn’t worked out, what would you have done?I’d probably be in that chair interviewing a comedian. I like writing, and I love cars, so I think I’d like to have written for car magazines. Car humour would be an area I would try and express myself in.

After bees, is there another creature that should have its own film?I think dolphins are one of the most beloved creatures on Earth. Wouldn’t you say? It’s hard to name one that tops it. Kangaroos? Maybe. Puppies? Maybe. But that would be a great subject. I’m not going to do it. I guess they’ve done a lot of water stuff with the penguin thing this year and Finding Nemo. Maybe that would be the reason they wouldn’t do it. But who wouldn’t want to see a dolphin movie

High on prescription drugs and four days without sleep, Michael Berke raced his Harley to the US megachurch where he’d found a home.He barged into the Florida church office, wearing a mesh shirt printed with profanity. In his hands he held a picture of a curvy woman with long, red hair and pouty lips.

“This is who I used to be,” he said.

“And this” - he gestured to his flat chest, bald head and red goatee - “is who I’ve become.”

He was born a man. After a lifetime as a social misfit, he had transformed himself into Michelle, a saucy redhead. Then, three months ago, he had become Michael again - with the financial aid and spiritual encouragement of Calvary Chapel of Fort Lauderdale.

Now, he wanted to be Michelle again, and he blamed Calvary for making him the man he had become.

It has never been about sex. And the new clothes and 45 pairs of shoes were fun, but not fulfilling.

Berke wanted friendship - the kind women have.

He dreamed of shopping together and gossiping in the bathroom.

“I always admired how girls can hold hands, girls can hug, cuddle, and there’s nothing abnormal about it. It’s not sexual,” he says.

“The whole girl lifestyle is just so much more social and caring and loving and understanding.”

Unhappy life

His life had not been a happy one. Kids at school teased him because he was different, so he rebelled and often got in trouble.

Michael left home and a strained relationship with his parents at 19, living on the streets and flitting from job to job.

He worked as a techie for Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson, followed by odd jobs at a veterinarian’s office, tanning salon and as a nail technician. He drank, used drugs.

Berke has never felt comfortable around men - he’s repelled by the angry, macho, emotionless male stereotype.

He isn’t attracted sexually to men, either, and says he has never had sex with one.

In 2003, at age 39, he became Michelle.

He spent about $80,000, maxing out his credit cards on surgery and provocative women’s clothes.

Cosmetic surgery

He got a nose job, brow lift and fat injections in his cheeks. His primary-care physician gave him hormones, and after a year he got breast implants.

Michael kept his penis; that surgery cost too much, and he still identified himself as a heterosexual. (He’s had relationships with women and says he’s still hoping to meet one with whom he could spend his life.)
The transformation was easy, a dream. He had few friends as Michael and no steady job, so there was no awkward explanation to co-workers.

Michelle loved pretty things. She made friends easily and was a great dancer; Michael would have never stepped on the dance floor.

Michelle talked to her mom and sister for the first time in years. She even flew to Cincinnati one Thanksgiving and met her niece and nephew for the first time. She went to Narcotics Anonymous meetings for women and “completely emotionally understood and identified with their feelings.”

But even as Michelle, the same old problems crept in.

“I was still the same person inside. Michelle was just the exterior,” Michael says.

Depressed and suicidal

She was depressed and suicidal and prone to cutting herself. She threw up her food trying to fit into her jeans, eventually dropping from a size 12 to a 7. She struggled with drugs and alcohol, just like Michael.

By 2005, Michelle had tried everything else, “so why not God?” A friend invited her to church.

An evangelical church with about 20,000 members - one of the largest in Florida - Calvary Chapel has a local reputation for embracing the homosexual community. Its several homosexual and transgender participants are not allowed to serve in church leadership, but are welcome to attend services where a Bible-based message teaches sex is supposed to be reserved for marriage between a man and woman.

Many evangelical churches have evolved from fire and brimstone preaching against homosexuals and transgenders and now view those members as having a psychological illness much like depression - something that must be dealt with spiritually, says Dr. Melissa Wilcox, assistant professor of religion and director of gender studies at Whitman College.

“The churches that only see it as sin would not be welcoming to someone like Michael at all,” said Wilcox, author of Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community.

“It’s a way of living out their beliefs of you love the sinner and you hate the sin. Since the early ’90s that’s increasingly been the direction that a lot of evangelicals have moved in … because it offers hope.”

Upbeat and feel good

Michelle loved the upbeat music and the feel-good sermons.

Everybody seemed so nice. They put her in a special women’s Bible study group, so Michelle would feel more comfortable. Her new friends showed her videos about a gay man who became a woman and then a man again, and married a woman with whom he had children and lived happily.

They said “you’ll be able to meet a wonderful woman and get married and that’s what pulled at my heartstrings because I really wanted that,” Michael recalls. “I thought I was doing the right thing.”

By the time Michelle first met Calvary Chapel Pastor Bob Coy, she was self-conscious about the D-sized breasts she’d had for over a year and had started wearing baggy men’s shirts to hide them.

During the altar call one Sunday, Berke found God. And several weeks later, Michelle told church leaders she wanted to become a man again.

“This is a man with tears in his eyes who asked for help,” says Coy, a bearded, charismatic leader whose own story is one of redemption from drinking, drug-taking and the excesses of life in the music industry.

Church leaders spent weeks counselling Michelle. They brought her to their thrift store, allowed her to pick out a new wardrobe of men’s clothes for free, says Craig Huston, a church employee. And they arranged for a plastic surgeon, a member of the church, to remove her breast implants at no charge.

Breast surgery

When do you want to have the surgery, the doctor asked.

“Tomorrow,” Michelle joked.

The doctor pencilled her in for 10 a.m. And just like that, Michelle was gone, Michael says sadly.

The regrets came quickly.

Michael turned to the Bible and other theological books but found more questions. He questioned the validity of the resurrection, and the belief that there was only one true religion.

Three months later he stopped going to church and started partying again. He downed handfuls of pills and chased them with vodka in what he said was a suicide attempt.

That’s when he rode his Harley back to the church and confronted the leadership. Michael, now 43, says he was cajoled into the decision to become a man again; he was the church’s “pet project.”

Church has no agenda but helping

Coy says the church had no agenda with Michael. He asked. It helped.

“I’m aware of the legal ramifications and the spiritual ramifications if someone was forced to do anything,” Coy says.

“Anything that we have helped Michael with, he’s asked for. The hours of time that different leaders have spent pouring into his life …”

Like the time Michael bought a motorcycle and lit it on fire. The church sent the bike ministry over to help. One of the guys even lent Michael his bike, says Huston.
He goes in these waves where he goes from one emotional extreme to the other,” Huston says.

He says Michael was the one who asked for the surgery and pressed to have it done quickly.

“We encouraged him, but he initiated it,” Huston says.

Looking at Michael today, it’s hard to tell Michelle ever existed or that he still longs for her.

Head shaved

His head is shaved. There is a faint, rainbow-shaped scar on his forehead where he had the brow lift.

His red goatee is long and gnarly. He favours jeans, muscle Ts and black combat boots. His mannerisms aren’t feminine, his voice is low, his gaze direct.

He attends a couple of Narcotics Anonymous meetings a day, just to get by.

Sitting in the Delray Beach home his estranged father bought him, Michael listens to opera and chain-smokes Camel Reds. He talks about Michelle’s favourite strappy heels and pink lingerie like they are old friends. She loved to shop and nearly bankrupted Michael, he says. Her clothes went to her best friend, Rachel; it’s too painful to keep her finery around now.

The only reminders are in Michael’s bathroom - a hot pink rug, butterfly towels, a vase of flowers and a white vanity mirror where Michelle did her makeup.

Can’t become Michelle again

Realistically, he knows he can’t become Michelle again.

“If I do it again people are going to think I’m even more unstable,” he says. His mom and sister stopped talking to him, he says, when he switched back to Michael.

He talks about going back to college to study psychology or maybe writing books about his life. He doesn’t work, relying on money from his father and disability cheques from a knee injury.

He vacillates moment to moment, between depression and hope.

“I still struggle just living on a daily basis,” he says.

Then, minutes later: “Maybe I just need to meet the right woman and have a relationship. Really I’m without any sense of direction right now.”

Toni Collette is considering a move to the United States, depending on the success of a pilot television show she is planning to make with Steven Spielberg.Collette, who is in the late stages of pregnancy, has committed herself to the pilot television project next year.

If the pilot is successful (and given Spielberg’s backing it is likely to be) the actor and her husband Dave Galafassi may shift temporarily to the States for filming, with their new baby in tow.

Spielberg handpicked Collette for the lead role in The United States Of Tara, a comedy show about a suburban mum with a multiple personality disorder, known as dissociative identity disorder. In other words, Collette gets to play lots of different - sometimes kooky - characters in the show.

Like her friend Rachel Griffiths, who has spent extended periods of time in the States filming Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters, Collette will need to base herself primarily in the US to film The United States Of Tara.

Griffiths recently declared her intention to return to Australia with her husband and two young children, once she has completed her commitments with Brothers & Sisters.

But Collette, who has been keeping a low profile in Sydney and her farm near Berry during her pregnancy, will be faced with the decision of spending longer periods overseas because of the Spielberg series.

A spokeswoman for Collette confirmed the actor has been enjoying her pregnancy, with the excitement building about the arrival of the actor’s first child. (At the time of press, Collette was due in early December, although with first babies these things are never quite predictable.)

“Toni is a very private person,” said a spokeswoman for Collette, who added that the actor was feeling healthy and happy. “She is very well, though.”

The United States Of Tara is already in pre-production in the US, with a start date scheduled for mid-next year.

Aching and stiff necks and shoulders are by far the most common ailments seen by health practitioners. Five experts tell how they treat the problem.The acupuncturist

“Stress and how we hold ourselves; our posture and our lifestyles are the main causes of neck and shoulder pain,” says Greg River, an acupuncturist at Northern Complementary Health in Pennant Hills.

As well as discussing clients’ medical histories, River says he delves into their lifestyles and personal relationships to assess any stress factors. Then he gets them onto the acupuncture table and begins treatment.

First he pushes thin, stainless steel needles into the affected muscles on the upper shoulders or neck.

“This causes a dull kind of feeling but can also temporarily re-create the pain … then it will ease completely and disappear,” River says.

Traditional Chinese medicine says stress causes blockages along certain channels in the body. River also inserts needles into specific pressure points to release the “Qi” (vital energy) and clear these channels.

The skin between the big and second toes, and on the ankle, he says, are the points that affect the neck and shoulders. Rivers leaves the needles in for 15 to 25 minutes and repeats the treatment over five or six appointments.

The chiropractor

Nicholas Wood, director of Chirosports in Kings Cross, says many people develop a shoulder and neck condition because they spend too much time at their computer, driving a bus or taxi, sitting in the car or using a chair that doesn’t have the right ergonomics.

After taking down a client’s medical history, Wood does a thorough physical examination, looking at the tendons, muscles and joints. He also uses a thermal scanner to get an indication of the health of the spine and nervous system so he can target any chronic problems.

Then he does the initial manual spinal adjustment - the “click and clack” back and neck cracking - to correct the client’s spine alignment. “At least 70 per cent of our patients expect to be manually adjusted,” Wood says. During a follow-up appointment a few days later, Wood does more spinal adjustment and assesses the ergonomics of all the client’s sitting, standing and lying positions during the day and night. “We even want to know what size and type of pillow you use,” he says.

The physiotherapist

Before physiotherapist Anthony Ruggeri begins treatment, he asks patients to rate the pain in their neck and shoulders from one to 10, with 10 being the worst pain they could imagine. Many patients also experience headaches, Ruggeri says.

Physiotherapy can help headaches that radiate from the front to the back of the head. They are brought on by sleeping position, incorrect posture and movement of the upper regions of the spine.

At his bilingual Leichhardt clinic, Ruggeri’s treatment includes joint mobilisation to relieve tension, soft tissue massage and electrotherapy using a TENS machine, a treatment that uses low-voltage electrical pulses to relieve pain.

He follows up with home rehabilitation exercises, Pilates and specialised personal training to increase muscle strength.

If he suspects a condition such as a long-standing tear in a shoulder or a rotator cuff problem in the shoulder joint may be causing the pain, he may also ask the client to have an ultrasound or X-ray. Neck complications can also include disc protrusions, he says.

“My aim is to educate the client, to involve him or her in their treatment and teach them self-management of their condition to avoid future problems,” Ruggeri says.

The osteopath

Neck and shoulder pain are mostly due to “postural anarchy - doing the wrong thing for too long”, says osteopath Patrick Green from Sydney Osteopathic Medicine in the city.

Before he begins treatment on a client, Green says, he must rule out any “red flags” indicating more serious underlying problems. He often orders X-rays, ultrasounds and other tests to allay any concerns.

Then he conducts orthopedic and neurological tests by doing different passive and active movements on the client, both muscular and non-muscular, such as getting the client to push against his hand with different body parts. He also checks the joints, ligaments and tendons.

Green begins his soft-tissue massage in the primary affected areas and any secondary areas possibly strained by over-compensating for the pain. These could include the lower neck and between the shoulder blades.

He also uses techniques to gently “mobilise” tendons and joints. “Our main aim is to get the person out of pain,” Green says. This also means most people have to change their “disastrous posture”, sit differently and do exercises to strengthen the affected areas.

The remedial massage therapist

About 99 per cent of Amanda Arena’s clients come into her studio with neck tension, she says.

The masseuse and owner of SahSin Remedial Massage Therapy in Manly says most of her clients face mental stress at work but she also sees new mothers who develop sore necks and shoulders looking down at their baby during breastfeeding.

Arena asks clients to undress down to their underwear. With a sheet draped over them on the massage table, they lie face-up as Arena discusses their condition with them and simultaneously begins to touch their neck and shoulders.

“I can’t talk about your neck without feeling it,” she says. “I need to feel where the tension is. Each person is different and every massage is tailor-made to suit the individual.”

She starts with long open hand strokes called “effleurage” to warm up the muscles. Then, with her thumbs, she uses slower, deeper movements over the neck, shoulders and upper back to work out knots. She finishes with a scalp massage.

“We don’t do bits-and-pieces massages,” she says. “We do the whole upper body because you know that old song ‘the knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone’, well it’s all connected and we can’t work on one part without working on the other.”

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