Output quality is an undoubted strength, as are its looks, but most businesses will find the lack of capacity annoying.

Superb build quality, battery life and usability – quite simply the best netbook around

A fine touchscreen phone, but held back by Windows Mobile and a slightly disappointing snapper

An excellent player from Samsung, combing outstanding innovation with great sound and picture clarity

If you want an alternative to Apple, here’s a great (and cheap) place to start

A good all-rounder and a fine budget recorder – if you can stomach the lack of a digital tuner

The brand and the price could prove this camera’s downfall. Who’d buy a Samsung when you can get Pentax for less?

A lovely compact cam and a decent HD camcorder in one

We like this camera a lot, and for a rugged day out it’s one of the most reliable snappers out there. We just wouldn’t shoot our best mate’s wedding on it.

Not worth the extra money for the media ability, but a solid performer

Gotta love that revolving screen – but remind us again what exactly the point of it is

Full marks for effort but the i6 is trying to do too much, without doing anything very well

An older plasma, that isn't flawless, but it offered fantastic picture quality and a quite phenomenal performance-per-pound ratio for its day.

Samsung’s new Flash disk can extend battery life and boost performance – at a price

Powerful laptops have to be big, bulky and ugly, right? Not necessarily. Samsung's new line of laptops is proving that portability, style and performance are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Samsung’s claim to fame with this drive is it’s slightly above average value for money score; priced at just $199 it represents good value and was only beaten by both award winners the Mitsubishi and Optorite for cost.

One of the plainer drives, it lacks a front audio adjustment dial or headphone socket, but does deliver on fast CD writing without too much damage to your wallet.

Just because something is cheap does not always make it nasty, nor does it necessarily make it the best buy. The possibility of the D701i being cheap and nasty was certainly a concern when the first one arrived and failed to operate, however, it was quickly replaced and the replacement worked fine straight from the box.

The SyncMaster 172X from Samsung was a bit of a powerhouse in our tests, scoring highly in all regards except one: surprisingly the monitor was a little over-saturated, meaning whites looked a little washed out, and this would not change regardless of how we tweaked and fiddled with the screen’s settings. However in day-to-day usage you’d barely notice this.

A $300 price tag makes this the most expensive of the 160GB drives we tested, but its cost per gigabyte is still well under $2.