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If you’ve ever wondered why all netbooks are essentially the same, thank Microsoft. As part of the deal that allows OEMs to keep using the technically-obsolete Windows XP on their low-power portables, Microsoft stipulates that processors must stay single-core, and that screens and hard disks don’t exceed 10.2in and 80Gb, respectively (although it did recently relax those limits).

In fact the only areas where manufacturers can really add value is in design and battery life – Asus certainly scored here with its Eee PC S101, but its price was a bit too high for our liking. Not so the Samsung NC10 – it too is a long-lasting looker, but its price tag is far more in keeping with the original low-cost laptop idea.

So we've already had a full hands on with the white Samsung NC10 but since every review unit that Samsung sent out was the white model - and since everyone seems to be waiting for the other colours, we thought we'd bring you a few up close and personal shots of a black NC10 we managed to get our hands on.

If you're after one yourself, the good news is that the black NC10 is finally finding its way into the UK. It's currently in stock at Dabs.com, eBuyer.com, Play.com and Saveonsamsung.com. Presumably due to demand, some stores have been cheekily putting up prices, so don't pay more than the £299 typical selling price if you can help it.

Now that Toshiba has launched a netbook of its own (the NB100 – look out for a review shortly), there aren’t many big-name laptop manufacturers left without a netbook in their line-up. And you can now cross Samsung off the list – its new NC10 just arrived in the Mobile Computer office and so we’ve shot a short video to give our first impressions.

We missed the launch of the Samsung SGH-i900 Omnia a few weeks ago and while this Windows Mobile smartphone has now been on sale for a while, we still thought it was worth reviewing. After all, if Samsung thinks it’s an important enough product to warrant a huge marketing campaign extolling its virtues, who are we to argue?

Smartphones have long evolved past the point where they’re just a way to make calls and manage your contacts, and Samsung makes much of the Omnia’s multimedia abilities in its ads (and made the best unboxing video we’ve ever seen). Of course a smartphone with any kind of audio/video pretensions now has the iPhone to contend with, but Samsung has taken some suitable compensatory steps.

We’ve had to wait a little while for a Samsung Omnia i900 review unit and as a result, our thoughts on this new Windows Mobile Professional 6.1 smartphone aren’t as fresh as we’d like.

Given Samsung's marketing blitz for this smartphone, we think it's still worth reviewing though (it's not like you care what any other websites say, right..?), and as usual, we’ve started with a hands-on video to give an overview of the Omnia's main features – after the cut.

Be it by blender, tree nailing or power washing and cement mixing we love testing gadgets to destruction. Now Samsung's also got in on the action by hurling one of its new Solid State Drives off a three storey building.

Click through for the video of how it got on and listen out for the soon-to-be new catchphrase of a whole series of copycat videos: "Will it boot?" Remember kids, don't try this at home - or at the office...

Seems the world and his friend has launched a UMPC netbook and now Samsung has given the word that it too is joining the bandwagon - with the Samsung NC10.

The 10.2in laptop gets the usual 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB RAM, 1.3MP webcam, memory card reader, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Windows XP as standard. Samsung hasn't skimped on the power with a six-cell  battery promising up to eight hours of use.

Thought a Blu-Ray laptop was out of your reach? Think again. Samsung's just come out with its BD equipped R610 for a pound shy of £800.

Nudging its way into Samsung's 'Touch of Colour' range - that'll explain the red go-faster stripe - the black lacquered beauty gets a 16in screen, with a true 16:9 aspect ratio for all those HD movies you'll be carting along with you.

We missed this when it first appeared online a couple of weeks ago, but we thought it’s worth a mention just in case you missed it first time round.

It is, obviously, an unboxing video of the new Samsung Omnia i900 smartphone, but less obvious is the fact it’s really a very clever marketing exercise. Well, less obvious until about 35 seconds in, that is… Watch the video after the cut.

Apple's MacBook Air has a new rival. Samsung's used IFA to take the wraps of the ultra slim Samsung X360 (no relation to a certain Microsoft console).

The laptop is cheekily described as "lighter than air". On account of it not rising from the stands, helium balloon style, we'll take that as a dig at the fact that the 13.3in Samsung X360 is in fact a shade lighter than the MacBook Air at 1.27g.