Gear Diary

Mark Rosengarten – friend of The Gadgeteer, wrote in to tell me that he has just posted 2 video reviews on YouTube that you will want to watch: HTC Touch Pro (Verizon XV6850) – Windows Mobile smartphone part 1. HTC Touch Pro (Verizon XV6850) – TouchFlo3D, the camera, camcorder and Skyfire browser. part 2. Fujitsu

I thought it would be fun to take a little stroll down memory lane. Today I want to take you back 10 years ago to two reviews that were posted right around this date in 1998: Casio E-11 Palm-size PC review Gameboy Color review Can any of you remember owning and using either one of

Best Buy just recently launched their holiday blog to spread the joy of the holiday season to its customers. On the blog, you can find information on the coolest gadgets Best Buy has to offer for the holidays, but you can also share your holiday rituals with fellow Best buy customers, as well as send

Is everyone gearing up for a Black Friday shop-a-thon? If so, you might be interested in checking out Retrevo’s free Black Friday shopping strategy guide. You can download it, print it and take it with you. Don’t forget to wear a pair of comfy shoes :o)

I purchased the MSI Wind Netbook specifically for an upcoming vacation to Treasure Island, Florida. I usually take my Macbook Pro with me while traveling, but this time I wanted a laptop that was both light weight and small sized. After I had the Wind for a couple of weeks, I decided to try my

I ordered a Palm Treo Pro and received it yesterday. It’s coming with me on my vacation to Treasure Island, Florida, along with the MSI Wind Netbook and a few other gadgets that I’ll be testing during my week off. So far, there are several things that I like about this new Windows Mobile Treo,

How many of you are interested in the soon to be available Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Windows Mobile phone? Have you been watching the Johnny X web series too? There’s a new episode available today. Check it out…

A few days ago, Palm quietly announced that yet again that their next OS version release date would be slipping. Instead of early 2009, they are now claiming it won’t be available until the middle of next year: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10047554-94.html Hearing this news about Palm isn’t surprising as it seems they have been pushing back the

Here are some interesting items from my inbox that I feel were worthy enough to pass along to all of you… Apptism – A cool new app finding / downloading store for your iPhone with reviews, user comments, etc. — PortableThemes.com – Brand new high quality Windows Mobile, Pocket PC Themes and iPhone Wallpapers site.

I just wanted to write a quick post to let everyone know how I’ve been getting along since I installed OSX on my MSI Wind netbook… So far things are going pretty well. Keep in mind that I’m only using the netbook for the following tasks: – Surfing various sites using Firefox – Reading RSS

I wanted to share a few iPhone and other smartphone software news items that I’ve received so far this week… GeoGraffiti GeoGraffiti allows people to record, publish and retrieve location-specific phone messages, called “Voice Marks,” – quick voice messages captured via phone that share information (opinions, tips, sales, advice) about a restaurant, event, activity, etc.

If you have a mobile phone that has a MicroSD or Memory Stick Micro (M2) slot, you might want to check out Sandisk’s new Mobile Ultra cards. They are available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities. They claim higher performance transfer rates than previous cards and also ship with a tiny USB MobileMate card reader.

It took me almost all day to do it, but my MSI Wind netbook now has OSX installed on it… The reason why it took so long was that I ran into a few hiccups along the way. The first thing I did was to install a 1GB RAM upgrade. Then I transplanted a Dell

Here’s the deal… I have been an AT&T customer for several years now. I switched from Verizon because I wanted to be able to easily swap phones for review purposes. I was able to do that because AT&T is a GSM carrier and all that you need is that little bitty SIM card. Just pop

There’s a new iPhone related magazine coming to your favorite newsstand on 9/9. It’s called iPhone Life and is brought to you by Thaddeus Computing, the same folks that brought you Pocket PC magazine and Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine. Subscribe Press release Table of contents for the first issue