Other laudable features:

A Few Quibbles

The Wrap Up

The Samsung N120 is a pleasure to use. You can type for hours without causing your hands to throb. The battery will keep powering the netbook for nearly a full day of work, depending on use. You can watch video downloaded from iTunes or other sources without dropped frames or jerky motion. The screen is legible (though a bit too reflective) on a sunny day at the park. People I talked to in Skype video chats said the quality of my video and audio was mostly excellent. And though it's a bit bigger than some 10.1-inch netbooks, the N120 will fit easily into most small bags. Samsung throws in a protective slipcover, too.

Even though there are less expensive netbooks on the market, the N120 is a good value for $410, especially if you get free shipping and pay no taxes. Honestly, if you've been holding out for the right netbook, you may have just run out of excuses.

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T-Mobile myTouch 3G: Hot on the heels of the Apple iPhone 3GS and the Palm Pre comes T-Mobile's second-generation Android phone, myTouch 3G. The $199 phone (with two-year contract) features a virtual keyboard instead of a physical one. Otherwise, the myTouch 3G isn't hugely different from the T-Mobile G1 Android phone that debuted last year.

What's Missing from the iPhone 3GS: Apple's third-gen iPhone offers several improvements over previous models, including video recording, copy and paste functions, and universal search. But there are at least five things we'd still like to see, including the ability to drag and drop files directly onto the device and a better camera.

Five Reasons to Upgrade to Windows 7: Microsoft's upcoming revamped OS, Windows 7, offers one-click Wi-Fi networking. Unlike Vista, Windows 7 makes jumping onto a wireless network easy and convenient. You just click the System Tray icon and select from the list of available hotspots. We've got four other reasons you should consider making the switch to Windows 7 (which is currently available in beta).

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Contributing Editor James A. Martin offers tools, tips, and product recommendations to help you make the most of computing on the go. You can follow him on Twitter. Jim is also the coauthor of Getting Organized in the Google Era, to be published by Crown in March 2010. Sign up to have Mobile Computing e-mailed to you each week.