It wasn’t all tablets, laptops and cameras at Sony’s IFA press conference: the Japanese giant made room to show off a new mobile too. The Xperia Arc S is the sequel to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc we were mightily impressed with, and looks like it’s adding some neat new tricks to its mobile repertoire. Such as? Well with the …

Can anything beat the iPad? For the year and a half since the debut of Apple’s first iOS tablet, the answer has been a resounding no. Far from being iPad killers, many of Apple’s rivals have displayed more suicidal tendencies, from RIM’s decision to leave native email, calendar and contacts apps out of its BlackBerry PlayBook, through to HP’s now-infamous …

TVs are rather more interesting at this year’s IFA than the usual tiresome who’s got the biggest willy-waving. Not to be outdone by Samsung’s TV that promises to get you fit, or Toshiba’s glasses-free 3D, LG has launched a telly you can draw on. That’s right, you can let your artistic side flourish, or just wait for Piers Morgan to …