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.

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

The SM181T uses a panel based on Samsung’s own PVA technology. This stands for patterned vertical alignment and increases the viewing angle in the same way as MVA, although Samsung claims a viewing angle of 170 degrees – the same as Super-IPS.

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

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.

Samsung's smallest and most attractive mono laser, the ML-1510 is a speedy little printer with plenty of potential for the sub-$500 price bracket. So good in fact that we had to recommend it for its above average scores in all categories.

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

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

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.

Samsung has made some noise recently about its MP3 players and this example is at the forefront of this product family.

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

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

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

A lovely compact cam and a decent HD camcorder in one

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.

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.

The Samsung SP1614N is our labs winner – and is a winner by a big margin. It scored strongly both SysMark2002 and Drivespeed to yield the pole position in performance, and following our current-labs-trend, it outperformed its SATA counterpart (only just). Its strong performance means that it is the drive able to come closest to the manufacturer’s specifications.

Samsung has produced a nice looking mini-cam with an unusual dual zoom system. One button for optical and another for the digital, which serves more to confuse than help.