Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today’s bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the holiday season.

True smartphones like the Palm Pre, Motorola Droid, and iPhone are all chewing up a majority of wireless mindshare these days, which makes it particularly easy to forget that there’s this huge, vibrant catalog of cool non-smartphone handsets sitting right below them in your favorite carrier’s lineup. They can play music, games, sometimes last for days on a charge (try that with a G1 — we dare you), and often take up just a fraction of the space in your pocket that a more powerful handset would. They’re not for everyone, but odds are you know a couple folks who fit the featurephone mold, and… well, it is the season of giving, isn’t it? Follow the break for a few of our recommendations.

Note: Looking to give a few smartphones away to friends and family? This particular guide’s all about regular cellphones — but don’t worry, we’ll be posting our smartphone guide in the not-too-distant future!

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