A stunning piece of design matched with excellent battery life, but with an Atom inside the price is surely too high

We like the ambition of producing a low-cost BlackBerry, but until it drops in price there’s too much competition.

A hugely likeable phone that excels at web browsing and manages to just live up to its ambitious name.

So, the last big name has fallen. HP gave out in April 2008, and both Dell and Toshiba's resistance crumbled by the autumn. But it's taken Sony until the middle of 2009 to produce what it confesses to be a netbook, the VAIO Mini W Series.

Feeling the need for a second screen? This little gadget allows you to add a second screen to your computer over USB rather than D-SUB or DVI

A striking laptop that’s incredibly portable and has good battery life. But the screen is a big disappointment

A super-light laptop with great battery life, but the screen is both its stand-out feature and, for some, its Achilles heel

Not the sleekest smartphone, but the screen, keyboard and battery life are all superb.

You've seen our First Look at the E71, now here's the full review. A stunning phone perfectly molded to the needs of anyone whose life revolves around email

Excellent touches promise so much, including a great screen and browser, but in use it’s unbearably slow

A new way forward for ultraportables, combining an incredible low weight with unrivalled ergonomic excellence

Dell's 6400 is a great value mid-range notebook with very few weaknesses. The support is the icing on the cake.

A rock-solid and fully kitted-out laptop for the demanding worker.

Sony does it again with a Notebook to die for.

While many ultraportable laptops, like the Toshiba R200 go all out to get size and weight to an absolute minimum, a great deal of usability is often sacrificed – the X505 is impractically small for constant daily usage while the R200 has limited battery sizes.

Plenty of modern phones support email, of course, but what always made BlackBerry special was its push technology. With this, you don't need to dial up to collect your email: just sit back and wait for the messages to come to you. Wherever you are, if an urgent email comes through to any of your email addresses -- and the 7100v supports up to 10 -- you can act on it instantly.

When Dell shook the Pocket PC world with the aggressively priced Axim X5 (March 2003, page 41), its rivals could always point out that the X5 was bulkier and uglier than their devices. With its latest Axim, however, Dell has produced a slimmer, more attractive model without compromising on spec, features or price.

Sony never lets you forget that it creates Personal Entertainment Organisers; Personal Data Assistants simply aren't trendy enough. But if you ignore the marketing, it rapidly becomes clear that the TJ35 is going head-to-head with the supposedly business-oriented Palm Tungsten E (January 2004, cover CD).

The iPAQ's evolution is almost complete. The first signs came with the H1940, a Pocket PC that finally managed to be good looking, tiny and powerful - and it even included Bluetooth. But the H4150, while looking rather similar, makes the H1940 look almost Stone Age, with HP squeezing WLAN into the package, upping the processor speed to 400MHz and improving the screen still further.

This rather optimistic time assumes no use of the backlight, but we found half-brightness to offer the best compromise – and even at this setting, the V35's screen impresses.