Why do some handsets have so many names? Confused I am! Anyway, now the Samsung (ready for this?) B5310 CorbyPRO, or Samsung Genio Slide as they are calling it in the UK, is now for sales on the Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) UK shop site. Got all that? Then you’ve done well! The B5310/CorbyPRO/Genio Slide is aimed at a price-conscious market segment, but does offer some interesting tricks – namely replaceable fascias, and also a slide-out keyboard (probably why they put ’slide’ in the name – in the UK market at least!). There’s also HSDPA,

Asus seems to being doing its best to increase the battery life on netbooks and notebooks, which is great news for us consumers, yesterday we the Asus laptop with an impressive twelve hour battery life. Now Asus has added another netbook to their range, the Asus 1005PE which comes with an impressive fourteen hour battery life. The Asus 1005PE comes with an Intel Atom N450 processor, plus a 10.1 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1024 x 600, and 1GB of DDR2 RAM as standard with the option to increase this to 2GB. Other specifications include a 250GB hard drive, plus

The ASUS  nettop, which had given us a taste of how intelligent such devices can be last month, is now arriving with a luring addition. The ASUS Eee Box EB1501 has now been incorporated with an optional upgrade of a Blu-ray drive. The arrival of a Blu-ray drive is seen by the PC maker as bringing in more popularity for the device. Originally available with features such as Intel Atom N330 dual core processor, plus RAM configurations available of up to 4GB (DDR2-800), the ASUS Eee Box EB1501 now spruced up with Blu-ray is available at the moment at European online stores. A

What do you do with a year plus handset? Why, introduce a rehash that comes with better features – in this case, the LG Lotus has been upgraded with a digital TV (DTV) chip and will be re-announced in the US. Relying on the LG2160A ATSC-M/H chip that also sees action in Dell, Kenwood and Hyundai Kia Motors offerings, the new LG Lotus will also come with a rather unsightly external mobile TV antenna. Other than that, virtually everything else remains the same including the QVGA internal display, QWERTY keypad, 2-megapixel camera and a

So you’re a regular joe at the office, and wish that life could hold more meaning? This office mini tool could potentially make you one of the more popular jocks there, as it contains a calculator, stapler, scissors and measuring tape in a single contraption, helping you free up some much needed desk space while being the savior of many a damsel in distress who can’t seem to find her stapler, or need some measuring tape to figure out whether her hem lines are too long or short for office protocol.

When a particular market becomes extremely competitive, such as the netbook sphere where most of the products come with similar specifications, how do you set apart one product from another? Shanzai-based Aojie’s netbook aims to stand out from the rest of the crowd by offering a service warranty by partnering with a third party IT service company which offers service centers in selected areas in China. Their latest netbook which retails for $199, where you get regular netbook specifications including an Intel Atom N270 processor, a

For a long time only Europeans were able to take advantage of subsidized notebooks and netbooks with wireless carriers. The deals are now common in America as well, though the prices for the machines are typically not all that discounted compared to just buying the netbook outright. LG has been offering its X120 netbook in Korea for a while now and has announced that the little machine is now coming to America. The netbook has a 10.1-inch screen, built-in webcam, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB HDD. LG promises the battery is good for 7 hours per charge and it ships with a built-in

The IdeaPad S12 from Lenovo has been released to feature NVIDIA’s Ion graphics chipset alongside Windows 7 Home Premium as the operating system of choice, offering it enough visual juice to handle the full Aero Glass interface alongside decoding 1080p video while playing nice with recent 3D technology as well. You can maintain your wireless lifestyle with the IdeaPad S12 since it comes with Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity as well. Prices start from $599 upwards, depending on the configuration within.

Windows 7 will be rolling out pretty soon, and Onkyo is readying the C405 netbook that will come with the most spartan of specifications including an Intel Atom N280 processor, 1GB RAM, a 250GB hard drive (now that’s a change compared to the 160GB standard), a 10.1″ display and Wi-Fi connectivity. Expect to see it available in Japan, although we have no idea on the pricing details as at press time.

Acer has announced that its AspireRevo is now available in America. The AspireRevo is a great little nettop that is designed to mount behind a TV or LCD screen making a slick little HTPC machine. The little nettop sells for $329.99. For the money, you get some nice specs including graphics via NVIDIA Ion. That means that the nettop can support full 1080p HD video and play casual 3D games. The machine uses the Intel Atom 330 dual-core processor. Other features of the machine includes HDMI out, eSATA, VGA out, memory card reader, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and 2GB of RAM. The device stores