Sometimes you might be forgiven for thinking that the only mobiles phones in existence are the iPhone, the Nokia N900, HTC phones with Windows Mobile 6.5 and anything running Android. But they aren’t. Some people just want easy to use 3G phones with a nice camera and a splash of social networking. Thankfully, Nokia have released the details of two new 3G phones which will appear in early 2010.

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Vodafone managed to get the new HD2 smartphone from HTC on sale a week ago, but if you want to go with O2 then this new Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphone is now on sale from today. The HD2 is special in a number of ways including the fact that it has a 4.3 inch screen (compared to the 3.5 inch of an iPhone) and a 1Ghz processor.

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Dell added the option of a multi-touch display to the Studio 17 laptop a few days ago for customers in the USA. Now according to Crave UK, Dell will make this option available to UK customers before the end of the year. Multi-touch is a form of touch screen where the screen can sense multiple finger touches at the same time. This allows for gestures involving two or more fingers like pinch and rotate.

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Last week I was frustrated and annoyed, and for once, it was not due to having to go to work, the wife, or even my pay packet. No, it was because I am a PC gamer. I don’t have a PS3, nor an Xbox 360. I have forgone these for an expensive graphics card and a Razer mouse. Sometimes I wish I had not though because If I had a PS3, I would now be playing Assassins Creed 2, the PC version of which has been pushed back until the first quarter of 2010.

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We’re all human, and drinking to excess is something most of us find fun. But if you don’t want to one of the almost 900 people who die in drink related road crashes every year then invest in one of these handy little breathalyzer gadgets to make sure the alcohol has left your system before you get in the car that night or the morning after.

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As expected Google has shown off the very first builds of Chrome OS and as I predicted it doesn’t change anything today but has potential for the future. The first public version of Chrome OS (or Chromium OS as the open source version is called) is really a developer preview and Google aren’t planning on releasing the final version for another year. Having said that, Chromium OS gives us an interesting glimpse at how Google sees the future.

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Tis the season to save money, and Orange is leading this spirit of festivity and penny-pinching nicely with its current Giftbox deal. If you want to look generous by plonking a nicely-wrapped handset under the tree this year, Orange is offering a free Christmas giftbox with £60 worth of goodies for anyone purchasing a prepaid [...]

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Come and look at Robert Matysiak’s Robolamps. Coloured light bulbs and old bits of pluming supplies combine to create the cutest crazy lamps you’ll see this week…

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