It's official - flip phones are out, and touch phones are in, as shown by this week's major launch of a new crop of phones by Samsung, as it goes in to battle with the iPhone.

Now here's an idea you don't see advertised in phones very often - Samsung's Ultra Touch comes loaded with a program that can pretend to call you to get you out of those awkward social moments.

There's been lots of talk about the touchscreen support within Microsoft's Windows 7, but up till now we haven't seen much detail. Now Microsoft has released videos showing iPhone-like multi-touch gesture control.

It seems every phone these days is marked as a ‘touch’ responsive handset, but few live up to the hype. The U900 packs its fair share of features, works well and ultimately does the job.

Good news if you splashed out on this iPhone rival. Annoying lag issues which we hammered the HTC Touch Diamond for are alleviated by a new ROM update.

Compact range includes touch screen, high definition slideshows and advanced facial detection.

We take each week's best rumours from around the world and list them here in the Weekly Rumour Mill.

The future of multitouch applications might rest on the surface of your mouse, rather than the pixels on your screen. We examine how futuristic mice could fundamentally change the way we double click.

We look at the gadgets in the new James Bond film Quantum of Solace, and chat to director Marc Foster about the technology behind Bond (includes spoilers).

The technology behind Microsoft's second generation Surface tool has appeared, and by the looks of things, we're getting much closer to 'Minority Report' territory

Dare we say it – but another touch screen operated mobile has hit the streets, perhaps numbering the iPhone's days. Will Samsung’s OMNIA outshine Apple’s market dominance?

A Microsoft Surface prototype was unveiled today at the Microsoft REMIX event in Sydney, demonstrating a new way of interacting with Lonely Planet travel titles. But Surface has even bigger plans in 'store'.

The Ultimate 9502 is a heavy, chunkier unit that boasts some useful improvements over its predecessor, including classier Foxtel Mobile viewing thanks to better resolution.

Asus add yet another netbook to their range: the swivel hinged T91 Eee PC and HP offer the Mini 5101 netbook for professionals. We investigate the perfect netbook for busy professionals

The LG Arena takes much of its styling from the Apple iPhone, and isn't ashamed to flaunt its obvious similarities. We got a closer look at the LG Arena and put it to our iPhone comparison test.

Asus have launched their new 2009 range with a bunch of improved netbooks and laptops with better battery specs, better keyboards, touch screens and one model that disperses negative ions.

A phone with twin SIM card slots offers the convenience of two phone numbers, although the phone suffers from a couple of basic usability and performance problems.

In addition to a revamped interface, Telstra has also announced two new phones to their line-up: Sony Ericsson W705 and Motorola Motorsurf A3100.

We tested the battery life of twelve of the latest smartphones, including the iPhone 3G, Blackberry Bold, Nokia E71 and two HTC models.

Are you interested in making HD movies on your digital camera? Sony may have a portable solution with its latest DSC-T500 model.