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.

Creative finally delivers a portable media player that trumps them all.

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.

A Blu-ray drive is just about the only justification for the Sony’s high price; it’s poor value overall.

The new Eee PC 900 from Asus was released for press viewing today at the CeBIT technology show in Germany.

A Blu-ray drive is just about the only justification for the Sony’s high price; it’s poor value overall.

The Acer Aspire 1692 WLMi is a story of compromises; a +/-/RAM dual layer burner and gigabit Ethernet are offset by Windows XP Home, only 512MB of RAM and the slowest processor and hard disk of the bunch.

Impressive and free antivirus and antispyware package

Still one of the best examples of laptop design in the market, but there are compromises

Revolutionary features and stunning power: for anyone lucky enough to have the cash, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds is the ultimate mobile workstation

A superb package for the price, with plenty of power. Only the unambitious battery life lets it down.

HTC yesterday announced three new Windows Mobile-based smartphones, and we got hands-on time with them

A powerful phone with a superb keyboard, but it’s simply too costly to win an award

Packed with features, but the keyboard is terrible and the touch-enabled OS confusing.

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.

Functionally the daVinci is the bare minimum as far as PDAs go so I was intrigued with the idea of a PalmOS device for $329.

Brief reviews of new products, plus updates on items we've already featured.

The most curious thing about 3DConnexion's new joystick-like device isn't that it reminds us of old rotatable arcade controllers. No, it's meant for CAD, but also among the list of suggested apps is Second Life.

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.

A real do-it-all device, but Nokia needs to do better to compete with the iPhone.