Review Bringing a little Soul to the mid-range market? It may have some elements of Samsung’s Soul chic in its design, but the U800 is an altogether more straightforward affair than that touch-controlled sliderphone. Continued

Only through carriers? Asus is to integrated HSUPA 3G as well as HSDPA into its Eee PC 901 next month, but it’s not clear whether the mobile broadband technology will be available beyond the network operators, or with Linux. Continued

Discovers yoofs like to watch TV Motorola has published the results of its study into what today’s 16 to 27-year-olds want from technology, which discovered that - surprise, surprise - most demand more telly. Continued

To push up Samsung bid price? DRM-free music for your mobile phone and MP3 players sounds a good idea but not when an announcement is rushed out by SanDisk eager to to push up Samsung’s bid price. Continued

Samsung, Motorola dominate Apple’s iPhone may have boosted awareness of touchscreen handsets, prompting a 91 per cent increase in sales between 2007 and 2006, but it’s still just a “niche player”, one market watcher reckons. Continued

SSDs, 802.11n, the works too Sony has introduced what it claims is the world’s lightest laptop with Blu-ray on board. Continued

Comment Where’s the temptation? If this is The Satan Phone, then Beelzebub has lost his mojo. Continued

T-Mobile G1 is go And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. Continued

Digital rights rage Electronic Arts may have tried to appease customers angered by slackening the Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions in Spore but the game publisher’s troubles over its use may have just begun. Continued

Lonely Planet guides come to Sony Ericsson phones Sony Ericsson has followed in rival Nokia s footsteps by announcing a deal to bring Lonely Planet s travel guides to its mobile phone handsets. Continued

Can YouTube be a big hit on mobile phones? The company signed a deal with Vodafone last week, but some industry rivals aren’t so sure. One is Yospace CTO David Springall. The company runs the See Me TV and Look… Continued

Alongside the Vox, HTC has two other new devices on display - the Advantage (X7500) and P3350. The HTC Advantage (X7500) is like a miniaturised PC, powered by a 624MHz XScale processor and Windows Mobile 5. It also features an… Continued

Review There’s more to image quality than a massive pixel-count An entry-level 720p projector will give you a huge display that s great for gaming and TV. BenQ s W500 sits just above that price point and delivers some improvements in image quality. Continued

LinkedIn blooper joins dots An Apple engineer updating his LinkedIn profile has let slip his work on an ARM CPU architecture for the iPhone, confirming the rumour that Apple is working on its own variant of the processor developed for the successor to the BBC Micro. Continued

Still hovering around the Samsung stand at 3GSM like a hobo ’round The Ivy’s garbage cans, Ashley has his mitts firmly clamped on the F300 music phone from Samsung. This hybrid of a mobile phone, and music player on the… Continued

IFA 2008 All the stories from this year’s IFA in Berlin Continued

Susi takes a look at two consumer orientated handsets from HTC. First up is the P3350 sporting an FM radio, microSD slot, MP3 player and BlackBerry Pearl-a-like trackwheel. Then there s the S710 which sneakily disguises a slide-out QWERTY keyboard beneath… Continued

Any phone worth its salt has Bluetooth these days, with most of the high-profile launches at the 3GSM offering A2DP streaming too. So a good time for Bluetrek to launch its ST1 Bluetooth headset. The headset offers A2DP streaming from… Continued

A joint survey from security software firm McAfee and the research company Informa has found that mobile operators are being struck hard by viruses. A poll of over 200 operators worldwide shows that they are experiencing the effect of viruses… Continued

Simplo says supply can’t keep up with demand The world s largest laptop battery manufacturer has warned that a global shortage of power cells will last three months longer than expected. Continued

Matey messaging service, 10p upwards Vodafone is to allow customers to send messages to their mates direct from their Facebook page, at a cost of only ten pence per message. Continued

Updated ‘Fair use’ policy given the chop Sky has dropped gigabyte download restrictions on its “Max” package in order to offer unlimited broadband without any “fair use policy” chicanery. Continued

Group Test Sends songs to your hi-fi with these four systems The Roku Soundbridge M1001, Logitech’s Squeezebox Duet, Philips’ Streamium NP1100 and the Sonos Digital Music System all offer ways to get the music on your hard drive to pump out of your stereo. Continued

‘Leccy Tech Lithium-ion to dominate A manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars has said that lithium-ion batteries will dominate the electric car market for the next 15-20 years. Continued

Touchscreens driving demand, says analyst Global smartphone sales were steady during the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. But only a wider availability of new touchscreen smartphones will spur stronger sales in Q3, the analyst warned. Continued

Learning to love termination fees Termination fees - the money paid to a receiving network for connecting a call - are for the chop. The question is what, if anything, will replace them; moreover, will ordinary punters ever even notice they’re paying to receive calls? Continued

Updated E72 slider and E75 business Nokia is developing two new E-series handsets, according to a promotional video that s been leaked online. Continued

Sony Ericsson to launch Comes With Music rival Sony Ericsson is poised to jump on Nokia s recent Comes With Music announcement by launching a rival unlimited music download service. Continued

Software to support downloading as well as streaming Hot on the heels of Nokia s N96 launch announcement, the BBC has confirmed that it ll soon offer a purpose-built iPlayer application to N96 users. Continued

We previewed the new BlackBerry 8800 yesterday, unsure at the time which networks were going to offer new device. Well, now we know at least one - Vodafone. The BlackBerry 8800 features a full QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS and BlackBerry… Continued