We’re still wrestling with our Acer Aspire One review model – it’s a pre-production unit that has so far refused to work. So, until we can get it running and review it properly, we’ve shot short hands-on video clip to give you an idea of how it compares to the Eee PC 901 .

First impressions of the Acer Aspire One are certainly very positive. It feels well made and has a sleek, stylish design that belies the £199 price tag. We particularly like the curved edges of the glossy lid – like the Apple MacBook Air, it makes the laptop look slimmer than it really is, and that’s no bad thing.

Everyone knows that at £99, the iPhone 3G 8Gb is much cheaper to buy than the original model (which started at £269 and was then reduced to £169), but how do the costs compare over the minimum 18-month contract with O2?

The good news is that not only is the iPhone 3G cheaper to make than the original model, but it’s cheaper to own, too. Based on the final £169 pricing (just before the iPhone was withdrawn from sale), the total cost of ownership for the original 8Gb iPhone over the full term of the cheapest 18-month contract was £799, assuming you stayed within the monthly call and SMS allowances. In contrast, the iPhone 3G 8Gb’s total cost on the cheapest O2 tariff is £639 – or £160 less.

Germany's Eeepcnews has unearthed what appears to be a presentation slide of a new AMD processor that could be set to go head to head with Intel's Atom for UMPC hearts and minds.

The so-called BGA CPU has some head turningly compact characteristics. It's a 64-bit chip running at 1GHz with HyperTransport to further improve performance, all fitted inside a 27mm by 27mm package.

The downside is an 8W Thermal Design Power - giving the cooling system twice the work to perform versus Intel's most powerful Atom, which ranges from 2W to 4W.

Given the success of the Eee and its million clones, it would be unusual if AMD wasn't working on something like the BGA so watch this space.

We'd already heard much of the details but today Sony Ericsson's latest Cyber-shot phone finally emerged. The C905 packs an incredible 8.1MP, making it SE's most advanced camera phone yet, as well as it's first cam phone slider.

As expected the full stats are that it adds a proper xenon flash, a 2.4in display - with scratch resistant mineral glass, we note - and GPS for geo-tagging what should be some impressive snaps. SE's also generously bundling a 2GB Memory Stick Micro in the box.

It'll be arriving in three colours, Night Black, Ice Silver and Copper Gold in the some time between October and December.

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EETimes has been speculating about the manufacturing cost of the iPhone 3G and has come to the conclusion that it costs around half as much to make as the original model.

Expert analyses of the first iPhone resulted in a best-guess bill of sale for components of $170 – the iPhone 3G’s components are estimated to cost a mere $100 (or £51 at the prevailing exchange rate).

The manufacturing cost cuts are thought to be the result of both engineering improvements to the iPhone’s sophisticated touch-sensitive screen (it’s most expensive component) and the tumbling price of flash memory.

Are you ready? The hour is almost upon us, 10am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on 17th June, for Firefox Download Day when the latest release of the web browsing upstart, Firefox 3, will be ready for, er, download.

Makers, Mozilla, are aiming to set a world record for the number of downloads in one day - not actually something the chaps at Guinness have been keeping an eye on before but they're taking the number set by Firefox 2, 1.6 million, as a benchmark. Hoping to smash that, Mozilla says it wants 3.5 million downloads in the first 24 hours.

Asus may have only launched the Eee PC 900 a couple of months ago, but it’s already defunct. Its 900MHz Celeron-M chip is effectively obsolete now that Intel has launched the cheaper, more frugal Atom processor, and existing stock will be sold off at a discounted price to make way for the all-new Atom-powered Eee PC 901.

Actually, the Eee PC 901 isn’t really ‘all-new’– it’s essentially just an Eee PC 900 with a different processor. Asus has made a few cosmetic tweaks to the case to mark the upgrade, but the 8.9in screen, small keyboard and other specifications remain the same.

As one hand gives, the other takes away. The consequences of the EU's drive to nail down termination charges could be that we'll soon be charged to receive incoming calls - a la the US.

Termination charges are the fees operators charge one another for cross-network calls. They ultimately get passed on to us in the form of higher charges for calls to other networks or fewer bundled minutes when 'free' cross-network calls are included on contract. The EU commissioner, Viviane Reding (pictured), has rightly been trying to get networks to reduce them on the grounds that they are anti-competitive.

Education IT supplier RM has launched a Windows XP version of its miniBook ultraportable, a little later than expected. The Asus Eee PC 900 in all but name, the Windows XP miniBook will cost “around” £200.

RM was among the first resellers to offer the Eee PC 701 last year, when it launched the Linux model for £179. CEO Tim Pearson predicts that RM will sell some 50,000 units of the miniBook by the year end – a figure that a Windows XP model can only bolster.

These are the latest smartphones to emerge from Finland - or should that be Thinland? The two Series 60 handsets, a the E66 slider and E71 QWERTY emailer, are just 13.6 and 10mm thick respectively.

Stainless steel accents are the order of the day on the "premium" E66, which comes in either "grey steel" or "white steel". It features HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS (complete with Nokia Maps), video calling, a 3.2MP camera and room for up to 8GB of MicroSD memory. It also gets an accelerometer for some iPhone style tilting - but no touch controls for the 2.4in screen.