The new Nokia Communicator  unfortunately evokes early '90s mobile phones: it has a long body, small display and is not something you could slip into a pocket. Closed, the 9500 is monstrous, but when you open its sideways clamshell design the 9500 comes into its own.

We've put AMD and Intel’s new processors to the test, and there's one clear winner.

Can't handle gaming and beaten by cheaper media cards too.

A world first on the desktop, Phenom is good but a long way from outstanding.

Surecom's EP-9500 access point is one for the technically adept, as the user manual and software CD are next to useless.

The Blackberry Storm 9500 is luxurious and innovative in equal degree, but the slightly cheaper Bold is better to type on.

Gigabyte Maya 2 R9500 Pro

ATI is the current market leader in graphics chips, and offers four varieties of DirectX 9-capable video cards; these are the company's most sophisticated products when it comes to 3D rendering.

Unlike the Surecom EP-9500 access point, this Surecom PCMCIA card featured a clean and uncluttered software interface

Cheap and functional, but rivals perform better.

So you want to make yourself a new gaming rig, one that’s capable of playing Crysis at more than two frames per second, but won’t blow the budget?

The 'Ti4800SE' tag of Albatron's graphics card doesn't signify that it's a superior extension of the GeForce4 Ti4600 – in fact, it's really just an NV28 (the AGP 8x of the GeForce4 Ti) version of NVIDIA's Ti4400, coupled with a slightly increased core clock speed.

From budget laptops to ultra-tiny netbooks, ultraportables and high performance, we explain the tricks to finding out the ultimate laptop at the right price.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

A California company is offering personal satellites for sale at bargain basement prices, complete with all the necessary gear to launch, monitor and run your own satellite from the "privacy" of your home computer.

Only Apple iPhone 3G and LG Renoir touch-screens make the mobile phone top 10.

It's nothing like the iPhone, honest. Meet the possible, rumoured, might-happen, iPhone killer.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Microsoft has announced full availability of Windows Live Movie Maker, the latest version of its video editing software for Windows PCs.

Can’t handle gaming, and beaten by cheaper media cards too.