The web has been crawling with rumours about a slimmer version of Sony's PlayStation 3 for months, and due to some cunning denial and obfuscation on Sony's part they have remained precisely that: rumours. Until now.

Do you have a large collection of music, photos and movies on your hard drive? Do you have a high definition TV and comfortable lounge with no room for a noisy PC and no desire to have to use a keyboard and mouse to control it? Do you not feel like paying much for yet another HD gadget? Western Digital's WD TV is a simple and cheap way to connect a USB hard drive or thumb drive full of media to a high-definition home theatre setup.

About twenty years ago, portable music was dominated by the Sony Walkman to the point where "Walkman" was the generic term for any portable cassette player. Sony's monopoly on pocket audio prestige ended pretty swiftly when Apple released their now-ubiquitous iPod. While the iPod's reign of the MP3 player landscape is still largely unchallenged, Sony releases a steady stream of excellent little Walkman devices that often beat the Apple at its own game. The latest top-of-the-line Sony Walkman, the X-series, is out there to take on the iPod Touch. Whether or not it succeeds depends on what you want from a portable media player.

Not heard of the Samsung Jet? It's not a mainstream product in Australia, but if none of the growing number of touchscreen phones on the Australian market has tickled your fancy yet, this Asian- and European-market import model ticks so many boxes that it might just be the one for you.

The HTC Hero is the latest touchscreen smartphone from HTC—the only phone company that's embraced Google's open source Android operating system. Here's a quick rundown of its features to see if it's the phone for you.

After our Apple iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre and Nokia N97 touchscreen smartphone articles, we thought we'd take a look at the upcoming LG GR500, better known as the LG Xenon. Aimed more at casual and younger users than the Blackberry or Nokia N-series crowd, the LG has features that should appeal to just about everybody.

If you've been waiting for a Nokia alternative to the iPhone, The Nokia N97 is it.

A feature-packed, high-resolution touch-screen smartphone running the Symbian S60 operating system, the N97 allows you to download software from the Ovi app store to customise your phone to your liking. The first thing you'll see when you pick up your phone is the home page, with various of your choice widgets giving you up-to-the-minute updates on everything from your e-mail to news and your facebook account.

The Olympus PEN EP-1 is certainly causing something of a storm in the camera blogs with its retro/antique styling, compact size and interchangeable lenses. If you've been hankering for the image quality of an SLR camera in a convenient, small package that weighs as much as a regular point-and-shoot, the Olympus PEN E-P1 may be able to sate your camera desires. Using a Micro Four Thirds sensor that's much larger than the sensors in a point and shoot, the PEN E-P1 is a modern, digital update of the classic Olympus PEN SLR series from 1963—half-frame 35mm cameras renowned by photographers for their balance between compactness and performance.

The Apple iPhone 3GS has arrived! If you're wondering whether you should upgrade your current iPhone, or maybe make the leap to getting your very first smartphone, we're providing a list of changes it features over the previous generation. Let's take a look.

If you're looking for a smartphone alternative to Apple's iPhone, then you might want to give the Palm Pre some consideration.