A long time ago, I was the owner of an HP Jornada 420. It was slow, had terrible battery life, and very limited onboard memory – but the display was a real head-turner (at the time). Flash forward a few PDAs, and my ailing Sony CLIÉ TG50 was being held together with tape. Although by […]
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Product Requirements: Device: Windows 2000 or XP, Mac OS X v10.2.6 or 10.3 palmOne has been in the PDA market for a little over 9 years now. I think most of you will admit that they pretty much started this ‘revolution’ that we know as handheld computing. Yes, I know there were other handheld PDAs
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Okay, I know that this may be bordering on the “Too Much Information” threshold, but I’ll confess that when I was a kid, I loved magnets. Not many things would make me happier than coming across an old speaker that I could dismantle to remove its magnet disk. Ball bearings were the other thing that
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Name: Mike Oetting Location: Kansas City I suppose it all started nearly 10 years ago in 1996 with the launch of the Palm 1000. I remember reading the press leading up to the launch of this product, and I was hooked. I thought it was the first PDA which seemed to have a fair amount
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 Our friends at ThinkGeek were nice enough to ship me a new toy: The Digital Hotspotter from Canary Wireless. This is probably the best portable 802.11b/g WiFi signal detector that I’ve tested so far. We’ve had several detectors reviewed here in the past that were either disappointing or just plain mediocre. They usually consist
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So by now I figure that every one has heard about the anticipated (yet not officially confirmed) new Palm device, the LifeDrive. According to the link under this blurb, the LifeDrive will have “an on / off / hold button, a rotate button, voice recorder, five way navigation with improved fast scrolling, 4GB Non Volatile
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What’s the worst thing about TiVo? Watching TV anywhere else without TiVo. Until there’s a TiVo iPod (Apple, are you listening??), the Sony LocationFree TV allows you to watch your TiVo anywhere… in any room in your house, from an airport lounge, from a hotel room, anywhere with access to broadband. LocationFree is a television
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Background Although the concept of the smart phone pretends to be cutting-edge, it was really created by Nokia back in the early nineties with the 9000 series. It was dubbed the Communicator and by combining telephony, e-mail, internet and PDA functions in one item it lived up to its name. Despite the miraculous convergence, however,
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Product Requirements: Device: Windows PC 98, 2000, ME, XP or later Like almost all products on the market, the consumer has a variety of brand choices that tend to map directly to price choices. For example, if you’re in the market for a pair of jeans, you can buy a no name pair at Wal-Mart
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 When the Sony PlayStation Portable (known from here on out as the PSP) was first announced in May of 2004, gaming enthusiasts began clamoring for information on this state of the art handheld gaming console. Even though this device was originally released only in Japan (December 12, 2004), that didn’t stop people here in
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