The Gadget: The Flip MinoHD, the most recognisable name in pocket camcorder's HD camera, it shoots 720p video on 4GB of built-in memory.

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Flip, the grandaddy of cheap camcorders, is the latest to join the hi-def video club with the release of the Flip MinoHD. The MinoHD joins the Zi6 and EZ300 in capturing 720p widescreen video, and it will save up to 60 minutes of footage on 4GB of built-in storage. Its the same size as the original Mino, and it has a 2-hour Li-ion battery—though with the way we've seen these HD cams suck down power, we're cautiously optimistic. The $US230 camcorder comes in black or your own design, and while it's pricier than similar cams, Flip has a great reputation so we'll reserve judgment until we see it ourselves—which will be verrrrry soon. Stay tuned for a full review, fact sheet down below. [Flip]

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Flip Mino, one of the best cheap camcorders money can buy, can now be personalised to your heart's delight. The new Flip site allows you to choose from hundreds of pre-made designs, upload your own image a la Skinit, or make a one-of-a-kind pattern using their awesomely trippy pattern generator. Better still, you can share your designs with the Flip community, and any camera sold with your image will score you $US10. If you're the giving kind, you can donate the proceeds to charity as well. But times are tough, and after dropping $US180 on the Mino, your beer money fund looks like a worthy cause. [Flip]

If it hadn't been leaked so damn much, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 would be something of a surprise. Not simply because it's the first-ever clamshell BlackBerry, but the fact that RIM went in this direction at all, especially when you look at the rest of its new phones, with their clean, almost aerodynamic lines, and compare them to this beefy slab of a phone. Landing on T-Mobile today, the big-boned Pearl Flip is aimed at people graduating to their first smartphone, and it definitely has its own kind of charm.

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RIM just got official with its BlackBerry Pearl Flip (aka the Kickstart). Still a kinda clumsy-looking piece, the Pearl Flip is just like the candybar Pearls, but you know, fliptastic, with an an external display for previewing incoming texts, emails and phone calls. Watch for it at T-Mobile soon.

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