A smartphone with a well-designed hardware keyboard is, for many business users, the only way to use Windows Mobile. They're becoming increasingly widespread too, but it appears there's still life in the straightforward, button-free phone yet. And when a phone is as powerful as MWg Atom Life, there's reason for even die-hard fans of hardware keyboards to consider switching back.

Just what we never knew we always needed - a giant condom for our laptop. These see-through bags completely envelop your laptop making it instantly splashproof. Available in A4 and B5 sizes for differently endowed models, they'll repel anything from raindrops to coffee spillages.

The maker does say they're not entirely waterproof - so no checking your email underwater - and  rather worryingly states it won't be held responsible for, "over heating if kept in the protective bag for to [sic] long."

Hmm. Not sure we'd trust our famously thermo-nuclear office laptops with these. $19.94 from GeekStuff4U.com, if you're still tempted...

The Toshiba production line rumbles on, this time serving up the new 13.3in Portégé M800. Weighing in at just under 2kg it gets a 'white pearl' finish with silver trimmings and added white LEDs.

Inside lies a 2GHz Core 2 Duo T5750, 1GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, DVD burner and three USB ports. The display is a WXGA 1280x800 panel with on-board Intel GMA X3100 graphics and it runs Vista Home Premium.

It's slated to land in Europe sometime between July and September but there's no details yet on pricing.

The Nokia N-Gage may be a dead duck, but that mediocre phone and lacklustre handheld console did help bring mobile gaming into the mainstream. The N-Gage does live on as a gaming platform along the lines of Xbox Live though, and is integrated seamlessly into Nokia’s latest N81 handset, along with 8Gb of memory and a powerful music player.

A message on the Rock Computers news site states that the laptop manufacturer has entered into administration. It goes on to say that the administrators are working closely with the management of Rock to attempt to secure a sale of the business as a going concern, but that it is unable to maintain normal trading activities during this interim period – including fulfilling sales orders and undertaking service and warranty work.

A bizarre message on the O2 website states "8GB and 16GB iPhone - iPhone no longer available". Cue a slew of rumours that O2 had cleared the decks for the 3G iPhone's imminent arrival.

Not so says O2. It's come out this afternoon saying that 16GB iPhones are only temporarily out of stock and that fresh supplies are on the, way while stock of the 8GB iPhone is "under review". It's also pointed out that there's still handsets available in O2 stores.

Still, there are plenty of other 3G iPhone news bits about. AT&T has apparently cancelled leave for its US retail staff from 15th June - pointing to an imminent US launch - while Apple itself has been posting adverts for "Field Validation Engineers" in Europe and Australia. High up on the skills requirements: 'experience with UMTS and 3G'...

These are Dell's Special Edition Inspiron 1525 laptops. The designer notebooks carry the artwork of Brooklyn-based artist, Mike Ming. He says he: “wanted to create a sense of energy, playfulness, sophistication and psychedelic momentum," with his scribblings. Our thoughts exactly.

The special editions are the first in a series of designer Dells, which vice president of Consumer Experience Design, Ed Boyd, says is a trend he's, "excited to see continue."

The Ming Inspirons can be had from a surprisingly modest $699 - a $100 premium on a standard 1525. Dell hasn't said whether they'll be arriving here or whether any UK artists will get a look-in. A Damien Hirst Vostro perhaps?

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This is, according to Samsung, the world's slimmest smartphone and, at 11.8mm, who are we to argue? Despite its diminutive size, it manages to pack Windows Mobile 6.1 and HSDPA into its candybar frame. There's also a cunning light sensor to adjust the backlight according to the conditions, eeking out the standby time to a hearty 15 days.

The QVGA screen stretches to 2.3in. A 2mp camera and a microSD slot have also been squeezed in, which is just as well because there's only 25MB on-board for the media player to take advantage of.

It'll be out this month as an Orange and Carphone Warehouse exclusive. Pricing is TBA.

You could always wait till you get home but if your just have to have prints while out and about, Canon's new Selphy CP770 may be just the ticket. Launched alongside the cheaper but deskboud CP760, it is, to put it bluntly, a photo-lab-quality printer in a bucket.

With Windows XP Service Pack 3 now available for download, we’ve updated our step-by-step guide to creating a slipstreamed Windows install CD for the Asus Eee PC. SP3 is a 316Mb download and by bundling it into your own Windows install disc, you can skip the lengthy Windows Update when you install Windows XP on your Eee PC 701 or 900.

The slipstreaming process (which uses nLite) is a bit long-winded, but our guide makes it easy by showing everything you need to know. Better still, adding Service Pack 3 into the mix is a breeze.

So, check out our updated guide to installing a lightweight version of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 on the Asus Eee PC using nLite.

Its last attempt at a mobile phone - BT Fusion - may have been a flop, but BT is apparently about to move back into mobile services with a Blackberry-esque handset that will be happy both out and about and back at home with a BT Wi-Fi Home Hub.

The Times reports that BT will use one of HTC's devices and Vodafone's 3G network. Handset candidates could well be the RIM/Palm lookalike HTC S620 (pictured), or the newly launched HTC Touch Diamond.

The BT launch event is tomorrow, so we should have more news then.

Using Wi-Fi across Europe could be about to get a lot easier. Hotspot network, The Cloud, has just introduced Mycloud, a service that joins several operators across the continent into one subscription.

Yet more evidence that the 3G iPhone will launch first in Europe. derStandard - the Austrian newspaper that first tipped that the original iPhone would be arriving in Austria on T-Mobile - is reporting that the 3G version of the phone will be tested there - also on T-Mobile.

HTC launched its new Touch Diamond smartphone earlier today – a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device with HSDPA, 4Gb of internal storage and an updated custom UI called TouchFLO 3D. Mobile Computer wasn’t at the launch, so rather than pretend we were by simply rehashing the press release, here’s the press release itself, along with a selection of images.

MWg is a relatively new arrival to the mobile phone market in the UK. And it's a made a bit of a splash – launching not one, or two, but three new handsets in its first few months on these shores. If the MWg Atom V is anything to go by, however, the firm is going to have its work cut out keeping up with the likes of HTC.