With your appetite has been whetted by the Wind unboxing video, here comes the starter – a hands-on video of MSI’s new netbook. You can also see some side-by-side comparisons with the only other two Intel Atom-powered netbooks available at the moment – the Acer Aspire One and Asus Eee PC 901.

The MSI Wind is the netbook a lot of people have been holding on for, since it seems to combine all of the best features of other small, cheap ultraportables – a big screen, large keyboard, to name the two most notable.

We’ll be publishing a full review in the next day or so, so until then, you can read our first impressions after the cut.

HSDPA mobile broadband is all well and good but when it comes to sending files from phones and laptops in tends to be a tad sluggish. Now T-Mobile has turned on what it says is the first nationwide deployment of HSUPA - that's High-Speed Uplink Packet Access - to offer upload speeds of up to 1.4Mbps - or around five times current sluggish speeds.

That should make a huge difference to people who upload phone snaps or send large files on the move. The improvements also go hand in hand with upgrades to T-Mobile's download service, with HSDPA speeds set to be upped to 7.2Mbps in Greater London and then other major cities later this year.

T-Mobile UK chief executive, Jim Hyde, said: "25 per cent of new contract customers are signing up [to mobile broadband] and we expect to quadruple our user base in 2008." To help things along it's offering a £5 discount on its £15 a month tariff for the first three months for people signing up before October.

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The MSI Wind netbook arrived in the Mobile Computer office a short while ago and we’ve shot a couple of videos to tide you over until we publish the full review. The first is a riveting unboxing video that shows the Intel Atom-powered MSI Wind being carefully removed from the box it comes in. See the video after the cut...

Amid talk of delays in the US, the 10in MSI Wind UMPC has gone on sale in the UK. Richard Stewart, product marketing manager at MSI UK, confirmed to HEXUS.channel that today was the day, saying: "Initially it will be stocked by Play.com, Ebuyer and Morgan Computers."

A quick look at all three sites reveals the white, Windows XP Wind in stock at Ebuyer and Morgan Computers but Play.com, which offers the black Wind in Linux and XP versions and the pink model with XP, still stating a 31st July arrival date. Ebuyer and Play.com both quote £349.99 with free delivery. Morgan Computers pitches in at a pricier £387.74.

The Wind still isn't due to arrive in the US till next week, which makes a pleasant change on the normal run of things.

German site eeepcnews.de has what appear to be official product shots of the new Eee PC 904 and 905 we first heard news of yesterday. Other than confirming their 900 series in a 1000 series body appearance, there's not much to add to what we already knew, with no specs to accompany the photographs.

PC Retail put up a story this afternoon stating it could, "exclusively confirm that Asus is to launch a new Eee PC device" - apparently called the Eee PC 904 HD - "into the UK 'within a matter of weeks'," but then the page swiftly disappeared . The plot thickens.

The danger of Bluetooth headsets is that passers-by might not spot them and may assume you're randomly jabbering at them or worse, to yourself. Flying in the face of this danger, and at the risk of sounding like a Bodyform advert, Celleden has released a headset so discrete, even you may not notice you're wearing it.

Barely bigger than a piece of loose coinage, as the photo attests, it weighs in at a measly 6.5g. yet manages 4hrs talktime and 50hrs stand-by - all topped up by its handy charging stand.

The press release proclaims that: "users can rest assured that wearing one will not damage their street cred!" For those of us who any to damage, that is.

It's available now in black or white for £29.99 from twistedcarbon.com and 'selected' high street stores.

Last week, the online forum notebookreview.com unearthed the first details on Sony's rumoured SR and FW series - now it appears to have found confirmation. Both laptops have shown up on Circuit City's website. They were swiftly taken down, but not before several people managed to save the pages.

The 16.4in Sony VAIO FW, shown in white, is a multimedia-savvy laptop designed to replace the FZ series. Circuit City listed it as shipping with a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo T8400, 4GB DDR2 RAM and a 250GB 5400rpm hard drive for $1149.99 - that's without the optional Blu-Ray...

Murmurs appearing on Taiwanese site Digitimes are suggesting that Asus is about to launch two new Eee PCs that fuse the current 900 series with the new 1000 (pictured).

By keeping the same 8.9in screen of the 900 but placing it in 10.2in the body of the 1000, Asus hopes to create two inexpensive 8.9in models with more practical, larger keyboards.

The 904 and 905, as they've been dubbed, would get Intel Atom processors, and possibly larger batteries and greater storage.

Oddly, Digitimes sees them as eventually replacing the current 900 and 901 models, which seems a somewhat bizarre move as it would leave Asus without a true 8.9in sized laptop. Happy times for the competition should that happen.

It may only just be catching up when it comes to mobile broadband but when it comes to surfing at home, it appears others are scrabbling to catch up with O2. It's come top of moneysupermarket.com's quarterly speed tables with its 8Mb service, which is offered at a discount to O2 customers, averaging an actual speed of 5.39Mbps.

Second and third were Sky and TalkTalk with a disappointing 3.59Mbps and 2.99Mbps, but still way ahead of some of the rest of the competition.

Best value were some of the 2Mb packages, which average around £10 a month but generally deliver what they promise, with the average speed actually just over the stated rate at 2.11Mbps. O2 doesn't have a 2Mb package, but Sky and TalkTalk both offer ones free to their customers.

Poorest performers when it came to delivering advertised rates were high speed packages. O2 again came top, but could still only average 8.15Mbps for its 16 and 20Mb offerings.

Of course, fibre optic broadband gets round this fall-off issue but only Virgin and a handful of small providers currently offer it.

With all the issues with Eee PC's batteries, owners might well have stocked up on a spare to keep them powered up. Only problem is - how do you charge it? Asus only provides the option of charging the battery while it's strapped to the Eee itself, making it tricky to keep a spare topped up at all times.

Enter Expansys, which has come up with a battery charger for 700/ 701 Series cells and 900/901/1000 Series ones.

They're for pre-order at the moment with no due date - but the US site has got them pegged for arrival on 31st July.