By the end of Q1, 2007, OQO will launch a tiny, fully powered PC that runs Windows Vista. It’s not an iPhone, but it comes with EVDO wireless, plays music and videos, runs standard desktop applications, has 30Gb or 60Gb of space, a tablet interface, an inbuilt keyboard and runs for 3 or 6 hours depending on which battery you choose. It’s thrice the price of the iPhone, but very compelling in its own right, and much better than the S-XGen that was also launched at CES.

There’s only hours to go before Steve Jobs strides across the stage at Macworld to deliver his highly anticipated keynote. If an iPod phone is truly on the way, Cingular could well reprise the role of network provider it played when the ROKR appeared on the scene.

Fond of calling their smartphones ‘multimedia computers’ instead of mere cell phones, Nokia are still the market leader despite competitors’ success with slim flip phone and candy car models. Now Nokia is striking back with thinner new models that take the fight back to the competition to try and ensure that Nokia continues to rule the roost.

The latest 1 terabyte (TB) hard drives from Hitachi and Seagate are only months away from being the standard configuration for top of the line systems, with the desire to get a terabyte of storage on your system alone to trickle down through the product lines relatively quickly thereafter.

If you thought LG’s new ‘Super Multi Blue’ combo next-gen disc player was the answer to format war, think again. This first generation unit is so expensive and crippled that you could buy a Blu-ray player and an HD DVD player and still have change. Hopeless!

Known for killing the first electric car of the modern era, the EV-1, GM has done an about face and is showing off the Chevrolet Volt at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Hooray! But one caveat - it's still a hybrid, and it's not available until 'the end of the decade'.

Perhaps they wanted us to this of it as the sexy gen… but really, although the S-XGen aims to bring a mobile version of Windows to users in an ultra mobile PC format, while still having access to a full keyboard, letting you type and do ‘real work’, it’s not a Windows XP or Vista powered UMPC, but a device that runs on the much more basic Windows Mobile CE 5.0.

Playfuls.com is trying to advise us all not to expect something spectacular at Macworld 2007. Um… hello? It’s Macworld. It’s Apple’s BIG year that they’ve hyped up themselves. Why wouldn’t you expect the most amazing Macworld ever?

For years, the biggest gaming show in town was E3, but following the decision to move E3 from Los Angeles to Santa Monica and to scale it down for retailers, media and companies only last June, LA wanted something as big and bright to replace it – and it’s coming this October.