The Holiday season is fast approaching and now is the time to think about picking up that Christmas present for friends and family or even for yourself, and there are plenty of new smartphones to choose from with very attractive price tags.

To this end the guys over at brighthand have come up with a smartphone holiday 2009 buyer’s guide to help those looking for a smartphone gift with their decision. The smartphones in the buyer’s guide are not the smartphones of long ago either but are the latest smartphones available on the market from the iPhone to the Motorola Droid and Nokia N97 to the BlackBerry Bold 9700.

Their smartphone holiday 2009 buyer’s guide is split into 4 categories such as Consumer, Texting, Business, and Other and apparently there is a great deal of crossover between them as most customer orientated handset can now deliver access to work email while business orientated handset can also play games and music.

So if you are on the lookout for a new holiday season smartphone and decide to give the smartphone holiday 2009 buyer’s guide a go, feel free to drop us a comment on how you got along.