HP’s latest series – HP Touchsmart TX2, having 12” touchscreen, is aimed to lend you a mobile-like usability, that gives you a sense of ease of bothersome use of mouse or touchpad, now you enjoy the delight of touchscreen – three in one; screen, mouse and touchpad. Well done HP!

Touchsmart tx2’s façade finish seems similar to its series HP Pavilion tx2500z, yet what is added new in it - a multi-touch screen and a newer Imprint quality. This new series has few other additional features – you can swivel the screen 180 degrees, to use it at your own comfort, and can convert the screen into a tablet to type on the display employing its digital pen.

If you appear badly exasperated from the mouse and touchpad and look for any other alternative, don’t worry, the solution of your problem has been sorted out and you must get TX2, from the open house without any delay.

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After Sony Ericsson's recent announcement that it plans to phase out the distinction between its Cyber-Shot and Walkman brands, the C903 may be one of the last Cyber-Shot cameraphones we see.

And on this evidence, we'll be a little sorry to see it go. The C903 is a beautifully compact little slider at 97x49x16 mm and 96g with a nicely robust sliding action. The 262k-colour 2.4-inch LCD display only has a standard VGA resolution of 240x320 pixels but still manages to look beautifully sharp and clear, and even proved to be legible in bright sunlight.

Beneath the screen you'll find a square D-pad and six neatly arranged buttons for call start and stop, shortcuts, cancel and two soft keys – all nice and easy to get your thumb around.

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This is just a quick pointer to a hilarious post I ran across this morning: BBC Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell, to wear a vintage Sony Walkman for a day. He took the challenge seriously, and wrote up his impressions of the Walkman versus the modern equivalent.Some choice excerpts:
"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape."
"I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down 'rewind' and releasing it randomly."
"I'm relieved that the majority of technological advancement happened before I was born, as I can't imagine having to use such basic equipment every day."

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I had an interview with a great subject, but no photographer was available. Worse still, my "good" cameras were at home.

Sitting on my desk, still in its box, was Nikon's new Coolpix P90, a $400 camera that's too big to fit in your shirt pocket, but smaller than a traditional digital single-lens reflex, or SLR, camera. Would it solve the problem?

On its face, the camera seems more than adequate: It will shoot an image up to 12.1 megapixels, which, the firm says, will give you a sharp print up to 20-by-30-inches in size. The company notes the zoom power of the built-in, "extreme 24x ultra telephoto Zoom lens," which, it says, focuses from "a 26mm wide angle to a jaw dropping 624mm telephoto."

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With July only a weekend away, let’s see what made the headlines during the last week of June.

1.  Sony Ericsson Launch T715 Slider.

Sony Ericsson seem to have missed the idea of June 2009, a month where everyone was supposed to show off some super-flash new phone.  Instead they debut the T715, a perfectly acceptable, if a little ordinary, 3G slider with a 3.2 megapixel camera.  It’ll be out in the UK sometime during the third quarter.

2.   Full Flash for HTC Hero.

HTC showed off the Hero at a London event this week, where it was also revealed that the new phone would offer full Flash support - making it the first smartphone to do so.  This will mean almost complete support for online video (and adverts) without the need for a separate application.

3.  G1 and Magic Have No Sense.

Well, they may have sense, but they won’t have Sense!  The Hero phone launch also saw the launch of HTC Sense, their Android UI, which was rumoured to be made available as an upgrade to the G1 and Magic Android mobiles.  However, HTC have confirmed that due to licensing issues, Sense will not be offered for previous ‘Google’ branded phones.

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I am a big fan of gaming and one of my favorite PC games to play was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The game was fantastic and had graphics that tax many consoles and PCs. I can’t imagine trying to play a game as demanding as it on a mobile phone.Glu has announced that it will be publishing the follow up to Modern Warfare called Modern Warfare 2 on mobile phones. The game will be made available for Android, Blackberry, BREW, J2ME, and Windows Mobile platforms.
The game is set to launch in Q4 2009 so it should make quite a few Christmas lists. I would like to see some screenshots to get an idea what a mobile version of this game will look like.

Intel Corp and Nokia on Tuesday announced the formation of a new alliance to develop a new variety of smartphones.The new agreement marks Intel’s first major step into the market of mobile devices. Under the collaboration, Intel will gain a Nokia HSPA/3G modem IP license for future products.

“The Nokia modem license complements Intel's broadband wireless technologies and will enable the company to extend chipset solutions incorporating Nokia's modem technologies across its mobility offerings in the future,” the firms said in a statement.

Additionally, both companies will be working to develop new open source software initiatives that will create common technologies for the Moblin and Maemo platform projects, which will deliver Linux-based operating systems for these future mobile computing devices, Nokia and Intel said."Intel at least has its foot in the door. It's an important and strategic customer," Gartner analyst Jon Erensen told Reuters on Tuesday.

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Intel Corporation and Nokia have announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine the performance of powerful computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous internet connectivity.

To realise this shared vision, both companies are expanding their relationship to define a new mobile platform beyond today’s smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware, software and mobile internet services.

Taking advantage of each company’s expertise in their respective fields, these future standards-based devices will marry the best features and capabilities of the computing and communications worlds with promises of always on, always connected wireless internet access in a user-friendly pocketable form factor.

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Late last week, Sony dropped news of its "affordable" entertainment notebooks ($880 isn't too shabby for a notebook sporting a Blu-Ray drive, but still . . .). Of course, it didn't take Acer long to fire back with bargain deal of its own. Acer's new line of budget-friendly Aspires promise full-size performance, but in a netbook's price range. And a $749 all-purpose all-star that offers a Blu-ray drive.

But let's start with the The 15.6-inch Aspire AS5536 and 17.3-inch Aspire AS7735Z ($479 and $599, respectively). Both boast LED backlit technology, a 16:9 aspect ratio, and low-end graphics to give you a subtle multimedia kick.

Both notebooks here feature a nifty multi-gesture touchpad (which will let users scroll, zoom, and flip through photos and spreadsheets with just the flick of a finger) and "Acer Backup Manager," a one-touch way to back-up files and information. The Aspire AS7735Z also has a "PowerSave" key, which is a one-button way to activate advanced power saving settings.$home$

So what does the $120 difference buy you between these two models (besides the larger screen)? The AS5536 packs AMD Athlon 64 X2 QL-64 CPU, 3GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics and a 320GB hard drive. The AS7735Z trades a discrete GPU for lousy integrated performance and a 250GB hard drive, but opts for 4GB of RAM and an Intel Pentium T4200 Processor.

The Aspire AS5536 and Aspire AS7735Z also feature an 8X DVD double-layer drive. Other hardware includes a built-in Webcam and 250GB hard drive.If you're looking for a step up in performance (and price), the 15.6-inch Acer Aspire AS5739G starts at $749.99 and offers users an Intel Core2 Duo T6500 processor and Nvidia's GeForce GT130M graphics card -- so you might actually be able to play games on this thing as well as HD movies. Touted as a "mobile multimedia powerhouse," the Aspire AS5739G also features built-in stereo speakers, a bass booster, a 5.1-channel output for surround sound (we'll believe it when we see/hear it), and a Blu-ray/DVD drive. Yep, they just went there -- and undercut Sony's announcement from last week. How will it perform in comparison? That's a question best left for the PC World Labs. Check back and we'll give you the full scoop once a review unit shows up.

The Aspire AS5536 and Aspire AS7736Z should be in stores now, and the Aspire AS5739G will be available at the end of June.

Tired of the iPhone 3G S and Palm Pre madness and looking for something different? Consider the T-Mobile myTouch 3G, the second Google Android-based phone to hit the U.S. The svelte, lightweight phone sports a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen display and virtual keyboard, which orients automatically from portrait to landscape mode in most applications via the phone's built-in accelerometer. myTouch 3G also has a music player with Amazon MP3 integration and a 3.2-megapixel camera.

You can also record video--a feature the G1 was missing at launch--thanks to the Android 1.5 update which comes preloaded on the myTouch. And like iPhone OS 3.0 (which also delivered the long-awaited video recording capability), you can upload your videos directly to YouTube from the camera app.

U.S. Android fans have been teased with a follow-up to the T-Mobile G1 since the beginning of this year. First, in February, we saw the HTC Magic, which launched on Vodafone in Europe. While there was no U.S. carrier announcement, it seemed likely that it would launch on T-Mobile as the successor to the G1. With the exception of a few rumors and sketchy photos, there wasn't any solid news about the "G2" until the Google I/O conference in May. Attendees received the Google Ion, a developer version of the HTC Magic. And accompanying the phone was a T-Mobile SIM card, which pretty much confirmed the Magic's destination.

The myTouch will be available to pre-order for current T-Mobile customers starting July 8. The phone will cost $200 with a two-year agreement putting it on the same price level as the 16 GB iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre. Devices sold through pre-sale will begin shipping in late July and national retail availability for myTouch is planned for early August. It will be available in black, white or merlot.