Sony's smallest high-def camcorder, the TG1, has been updated. The new version, called TG5V in Japan and the US and (confusingly) TG7 in Europe, manages 1080x1920 full high-def in the AVCHD format and packs a GPS unit. That means the 4-megapixel pictures are geotagged with the location that you shot them -- something you might not need now but that could be useful when you're looking back on them in years from now. The AVCHD format used for the video doesn't have space for GPS data so it's stored in an accompanying file but the downside of that is most editing or viewing software won't know how to interpret it. The camera hits shelves worldwide from May and will cost around US$1,000.

Japan's number two carrier, KDDI, knows a thing or too about design. It's "Design Project" handsets have been popular in the last few years and now the company is spinning them off under a different brand, "Iida." The first phone is the G9, which features a big 3-inch display that has impressive 480x864 pixel resolution above a half-keypad on the front face. A bigger secondary keyboard lives under the slider and the phone also includes a 3-megapixel camera. It runs on KDDI's Japanese CDMA network and also includes GSM for international use. The phone's certainly a looker and could prove more popular in Japan than Apple's iPhone, which has been having a hard time achieving the same status it has overseas.