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The Toshiba Mini NB305-N310 is a professional-looking netbook with a comfortable keyboard and a huge touchpad, but it's not great for watching video.

As features such as face-recognition and image stabilization have become standard in many point-and-shoot and micro four-thirds cameras, manufacturers have been upping thier game and adding new, cool features to grab your eye. Senior editor Tim Moynihan takes a look at the in-camera instructions, miniaturization settings, panoramic features, and low-light HDR functions that star in the latest cameras of 2010.

Sick of sore shoulders and dead batteries? With Alienware's M11x, serious gamers finally have a fully capable notebook that's easily portable and offers great battery life. Even if you're not a gamer, you may like this somewhat pricey laptop for its power and long battery life.

Microsoft's newest social networking phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, have a slick and intuitive user interface that's targeted at the Sidekick crowd. But while the phones feature an impressive camera and ship with the Zune HD software for audio playback, the Kin OS is missing a calendar, lacks a native IM client, and has poor Twitter integration. Ginny Mies takes a look.

For some reason, the flash seems to be the most mysterious part of any digital camera: Using the flash, it seems, isn't particularly intuitive. Let's take a look at the modern digital camera's flash and see how it works.

We decided to test Apple's claims about "death grips" by taking a handful of smartphones to a location with poor service and seeing if we could duplicate their claims about the problem being industry-wide. Ginny Mies shows you the "grips" and the tools we used for testing.

The Xperia X10 is Sony Ericsson's latest twist on Android smartphones, and it has a gorgeous 4-inch display and an excellent 8-megapixel camera. However, its lack of multitouch, sluggish software, and its adoption of an outdated version of the Android OS hamper the user.

There already are some superior games available that take advantage of the new Apple tablet's high-res screen. Staff Editor Nate Ralph takes a look at the games Worms HD, Fieldrunners, Scrabble, Plants vs. Zombies HD, and Need for Speed Shift.

How sturdy is Apple's latest gadget, the iPad? We test it so you don't have to...

Cameras continue to come down in size, but the AceShot XR7000 could be the smallest we've ever seen. It's so small, it seems unreal.

The Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition can run six monitors simultaneously to provide a mind-blowing total resolution of 5760 pixels by 2160 pixels.

Laptops are ideal candidates for solid state drives: These drives are more rugged and shock resistant than standard hard drives, since they have no moving parts. Since laptops get thrown quite a bit, replacing a more traditional, rotating hard drive with a more robust SSD can be good idea.

If you lose your Android phone, you'll want a couple of ways to find it again or make sure that--if it's truly lost--you can protect your private information. Executive Editor Robert Strohmeyer takes a look at some of the apps and tools that'll help keep your phone safe.

Panasonic's Lumix DMC-ZS5 is a 12.1 megapixel digital camera with an ultrawide lens that has excellent picture quality and image sharpness.

Ready to take your Android smartphone experience to the next level? These customization tips and tricks will help you personalize your Droid, Nexus One or other Android phones.