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Brighthand makes its predictions for 2003. Among them, that Handspring will be acquired by Palm, that Dell will need to improve the design of its handhelds if it wants to corner the Pocket PC market, and that this year we’ll see the first PDA with built-in GPRS and WiFi. Read
Just under the wire for 2002, Linksys and Buffalo Technologies have each rolled out some of the very first wireless hardware to use 802.11g, the faster (54 mbps) version of WiFi that operates at 2.4Ghz and thus is backwards compatible with its slower cousin, 802.11b. Interestingly enough, these wireless access points and cards only adhere…
There were so many great new gadgets this year, but here are my faves of the past year: Toshiba e740 There are more powerful handhelds out there, but the e740 packs the most punch for its price. Toshiba’s flagship PDA comes with 64MB of RAM, a 400MHz processor, Secure Digital and Compact Flash slots, a…
Some more gadget picks for 2002. Phillip M. Torrone, of Fallon Worldwide, FlashEnabled, and who is just generally a phenom of the gadget world, sends us his picks, already laid out with pictures. You can check out his picks here. And reader Adam Kalsey of Kalsey Consulting Group sends us his picks for some of…
We’ve asked a few of our favorite gadget fanatics to contribute a list of their favorite gadgets from the past year. More gadget lists, including my picks of the year, are on their way. If you’d like to contribute your own list, email it to me at [email protected], and we’ll try and post it. Glenn…
One of the really annoying ways that cellphone companies have managed to get away with poor customer service, dropped calls, etc is that switching carriers means getting a whole new number, which is a big hassle. But starting next year (on November 24th to be exact) the wireless carriers are going to forced by the…
Typically thorough Tom’s Hardware Guide roundup of five mini-digital cameras: the Sony DSC-U10, the Minolta Dimage Xi (pictured at right), the Casio Exilim EX-M2, the Canon PowerShot S230, and the Toshiba PDR-T30. Read Amazon – Sony DSC-U10 Amazon – Minolta Dimage Xi Amazon – Casio Exilim EX-M2 Amazon – Canon PowerShot S230 Amazon – Toshiba…
Just about every gadget-focused columnist has been puzzling lately over why TiVos, ReplayTVs, and other digital video recorders haven’t caught on with the general public yet. Now David Morgenstern over at Storage Supersite, in a column about whether or not digital video recorders will ultimately prove to be a good thing for the hard drive…
TechTV rounds up their picks for the best of the new Tablet PCs. They recommend going with what is called a ‘convertible-style’ Tablet PC – essentially a laptop with a touch-sensitive screen that can swivel around and fold into a writing surface. Of these, they like Toshiba’s Portege 3500 best. Read
Courtesy of Infosync, Strategy Analytics’ predictions for wireless in 2003. Among them: that downloadable games will be hot, picture messaging will be slow to catch on, and sales of wireless PDAs will grow 160 percent. Read
A bizarre-looking keyboard called the orbitTouch that doesn’t have any keys at all, but rather two domes that you slide around into different positions for each keystroke. No, it doesn’t make sense to me, either. Read
Conflicting reports from The Inquirer and Digit-Life on the price of LCD monitors, with one predicting they will soar, and the other predicting they will plummet. Read – Price of 15-inch LCDs Set to Soar Read – TFT LCD price reduction to continue in Q1 2003
Everybody loves the iPod, but a lot of owners are discovering that they don’t love how quickly the battery’s life dwindles, from ten or eleven hours on purchase, to as little as a couple of hours after a year of use. Apple’s solution to battery problems after your warranty expires: offering to replace the entire…
CNET has a summary of the biggest gadget stories of the year: the Tablet PC, the Sidekick, Palm’s spinning off the Palm OS into a separate company. Read
The FCC has granted approval to HTC to sell a CDMA version of the Pocket PC Phone in the US, and from the looks of it, this version comes with built-in GPS as well. Read
Get ready for iVDR. The acronym stands for Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage, and it’s the standard for a swappable and removable hard drive system created by a consortium of Canon, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Phoenix Technologies, Pioneer, Sanyo, Sharp, JVC, Maxtor and Seagate. Expect to see video cameras, laptops, and MP3 players that support iVDR,…
CNET picks for the top ten desktops of 2002. Lot of surprises on the list, with names you probably won’t recognize like the iBuyPower Value XP PC, the Voodoo F-Class Limited Edition PC, the Vicious PC Phantom, and the Falcon Northwest Mach V. Read
Digital picture frames, the ones that let you display your digital photos, are on sale for $119.99 (after rebate) over at Amazon. Amazon [Via BoingBoing]
A video has surfaced of what purports to be a prototype iPAQ Pocket PC from HP that has a full-size folding keyboard. Probably fake, but if not, it’s nice to see HP taking some risks with the Pocket PC form factor. Read
Ok, now this is a good idea: an 80GB hard drive with an Ethernet port that connects up to your home network. Read Amazon