A snappy performer, but let down by a fiddly keyboard.

The Chinese firm Skytone is readying the Alpha 680 based on the Google operating system.

Product brief continues as we look at more products from June.

Digital photography has made enormous strides in recent years, and as a result, the technology is being incorporated into affordable consumer products.

Poor value and lacks a few high-end features.

It's not for meetings, it's for meeting up. If you don't like the bulk of a Treo, here's your smartphone.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

The tiny Hewlett Packard PhotoSmart 1200 is a sleek, portable, flatbed scanner tailor-made for scanning small items with minimal hassle. Weighing in at a tiny 680g with a scan bed of only 10 x 15cm it's perfect for scanning photos. Features include 1,200 x 1,200dpi optical resolution, a USB 2.0 port, CompactFlash card and shared MMC/SD slots. Power is by the USB 2.0 port, or by four AA batteries when unplugged

Baby steps inch the UMPC concept forward, with the Q1 Ultra the best version yet. But it’s still undeniably niche

A little large and lacking in superfast data connectivity, but unrivalled as an email tool.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

A real prizefighter of a laptop: powerful, well-built and reasonably mobile, too