Review Netbook-beating portability People like netbooks for two key reasons: price and portability. Even the not-so-cheap models deliver a decent daily use performance in a form that’s the peak of pick-up-and-go computing. Continued

Orange has a new solution to running out of credit for pre-pay customers - an overdraft. Customers signing up to the company’s Speakeasy pre-pay tariff can get 2.50 worth of ‘overdraft’ (known as the Reserve Tank) to stay connected when… Continued

Orange is jumping on the talent show bandwagon, but on mobiles phones with Play-Off, which claims to offer the nation s never-ending queue of wanabees a platform to pit their talents against one another. You need to submit 10-15 second videos… Continued

Ashley and Shiny Shiny’s Susi put the Nokia N95 through its paces. Nokia… Continued

Orange has a new solution to running out of credit for pre-pay customers - an overdraft. Customers signing up to the company’s Speakeasy pre-pay tariff can get 2.50 worth of ‘overdraft’ (known as the Reserve Tank) to stay connected when… Continued

Review Java ME a safer bet? It’s somehow fitting that Sun Microsystems chose Barcelona, the home of modernist architect Gaud and this week’s Mobile World Congress, to announce JavaFX Mobile 1.0 - part of the JavaFX SDK 1.1 release. Continued

Review Sophisticated - or silly? After some flash for your cash? Hot on the well-turned heels of LG’s new Prada phone, Samsung and Armani have delivered their latest ensemble - the Emporio Armani Samsung Night Effect. Continued

I’m guessing that the various Championship Manager games have had a serious negative impact on relationships over the years - and that looks set to continue with the launch of Championship Manager 2007 for mobile phones. As you would expect,… Continued

Web bling tone The way to Adobe’s heart Adobe Systems’ chief financial officer Mark Garrett has said Silverlight is fizzling. Microsoft’s director of client platform evangelism Tim Sneath has said it’s fizzing. So the RIA war continues. Continued

iPhone excepted You’ll be able to charge any new mobile phone from the same universal charger beginning on January 1, 2012. Except the iPhone. Continued

Nearly half of Americans adults have heard of the iPhone, despite the fact it’s not even out yet, according to a survey. What’s more, 17 percent said they already wanted to buy one - something that will not doubt delight… Continued

Let’s be honest, we can probably do without the wires connecting headphones to player - and with some you can, as indeed you can with the right mobile phone. Well, if yours isn’t one of them, you can make it… Continued

Fail and You Lacking lemons, Schwartz makes JavaFX “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” The chorus of a person who gives just enough of a shit about your problems to console you, but not enough to actually help. Lately, somebody has been consoling Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, but nobody is helping. When Schwartz took over for Scott McNealy in 2006, he inherited the Java ME clusterfuck, along with a host of other dreams that never were. Continued

The propaganda VoIP may be great for keeping calling costs down - but it does mean you’re shackled to your PC by a headset, which doesn’t lend itself to long conversations. ZyXEL is hoping to change all that with the… Continued