BenQ have launched their latest cell phone, the C36 Music Phone (successor to BenQ’s C30 handset) which, according to BenQ, offers ‘enhanced multimedia functionalities’ as well as an upgraded 1.3 megapixel camera – which can also serve as a webcam - and a ‘specious’ 2” 176 x 220 resolution 262K colour LCD display.

Alienware have announced what their press release bills as their ‘most powerful notebook ever’ in the form of their new Area 51 M17X Gaming Notebook which not only combines Intel’s Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor with dual Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX GPU mounted in SLI configuration promising ‘unrivalled mobile DirectX 10 HD gaming’ but also comes with up to 1.5TB of storage capacity thanks to the Area 51 M17X’s 500GB HHD and optional dual 500GB Smart Bay drive configured in a RAID 0 array.

Sharp have announced that their already available HT-DV50H Home Cinema System is to somewhat usurped by their new, larger HT-DV50H Home Cinema System which, apart from being billed as the perfect accompaniment to Sharp’s Aquos LCD TVs, offers high power 75W RMS per channel speakers and a 100W subwoofer and comes complete with HDMI output and DivX compatibility (which, we would argue, is pretty much a prerequisite of any home cinema system these days).

Samsung’s SGH-P960 TV cell phone is due to hit Europe next month and, apart from serving as a traditional slider type cell phone (see specifications below) its most notable feature is its ability to offer TV on the go courtesy of its DVB-H TV broadcast receiver and support of European DVB-CBMS and OMA-BCAST mobile TV standards – making it the first slider type cell phone to offer mobile TV in Europe.

This interesting gadget known as the MultiX A32HQ Portable DVR, and available from Maplin, may look like its role in life is to tell you to turn left at the next junction or take a sharp right in 300 meters (where no road actually exists) but, despite its rather Sat-Nav-like appearance, it’s actually a portable digital video player/recorder and MP3 player that comes complete with camera and microphone.

On the very same day that we covered Dell introducing new colours to its XPS M1530 and M1330 laptops (including pink), and the same day we posted about Belkin’s new iPod Nano ‘pink ribbon’ cases comes news that Swedish mobile communication company Neonode are now offering their highly desirable touchscreen Neonode N2 handsets in four new colours – and, yes, a pink N2 is included.

Belkin, a company well known for its vast range of iPod accssories, has announced a new range of ‘pink ribbon’ iPod Nano cases, the purchasing of which will result in a donation to Susan G Komen for the Cure, helping to find a cure for breast cancer, up to a guaranteed donation from Belkin of $225,000.

Following on from our post last week regarding the impending availability of Windows XP Service Pack 3 we can now report that XP SP3 is in the process of being made available via the Microsoft Download Center and via Windows Update.