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28 Aug 09

The 10 Most Overrated Products - PC World

Hype springs eternal. Lots of technologies, products, and services don't merit the praise heaped on them. Here are 10 tech items that don't live up to their billing--and 10 that deserve respect that they don't receive.

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20 Mar 09

The 10 Most Overrated Products

The first five are right on. After that, their picks for "underrated" decline, and they start comparing apples to oranges.

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iPhone: The New Personal Computer

  • For a while now, we've been seeing desktop and web converging, with
    increasingly
    more desktop apps
    leveraging the web.
  • Seeing the new applications on the iPhone is eye-opening. They're powerful,
    they're beautiful, and they're only
    getting better. Having all personal applications and services at your
    fingertips makes one realize
    iPhone is really the first personal computer.

Forget the iPhone--The iPod Touch is Good Enough

This is what I was starting to get at with my iPod Touch blog posts. Right on and with more in-depth examples and tools for making this cost effective approach work.

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iPod touch microphone ordering

The solution for turning your iPod Touch into a VOIP iPhone

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10 Jan 09

Blackberry is Not Microsoft (Sorry Apple)

Points out that the iPhone's real competition is the Blackberry, which is probably better at productivity than the iPhone because of its keyboard and battery life.

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  • The killer app for me? Skype to Skype calls over WiFi. I believe that requires an unlocked iPhone. It would dramatically change the economics of mobile phones.
24 Jul 08

Every Laptop Left Behind?

Smartphones enhance the functionality of most of the activities you can do on a laptop by making them more portable, and the areas in which a laptop might be preferable to a handheld are also areas in which other devices (desktops, game consoles, etc.) are even better than a laptop…and more affordable.

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21 Jul 08

Nokia N800 Internet Tablet: iPhone without the Phone?

Well-considered comparison between the Nokia n800 and the iPhone/iPod Touch.

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  • they perform a fixed set of functions with an extraordinarily high degree of polish, and they're a thorough re-thinking of the way you interact with a portable electronic device.
  • The N800, by contrast, is more akin to a traditional computer shrunk down to pocket size, crossed with a PDA. It runs a variant of Linux, and while it has some PDA-like interface adaptations for operating on a handheld device with no keyboard, by and large using it is like using a traditional computer - with all the advantages and warts this implies. So while it's possible to do much more with a N800 than with an iPhone (and far more than with an iPod touch), it isn't nearly as polished, and doesn't perform most of its comparable functions nearly so well. Worse, you need to be a technical user to get the most out of it.
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15 Jul 08

iPhone 2.0 SDK: Video Games to Rival Nintendo DS, Sony PSP

Interesting piece on how Apple could be competitive in the portable gaming market.

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iPod touch review

Excellent if disappointed review of the iPod Touch.

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Data-only iPhone plan for $20/month

Very clever! And if you use VOIP for calls, then you don't ever have to pay for the minutes either.

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  • I ran into a few $ costing issues playing around with this, first was just to see what it would cost on the Go Plan to load a Safari page. Big mistake - I hadn't read Erica's previous post about this topic, so just to load www.apple.com, it took a $5.40 hit on the card's balance. Now there's not even enough on the original SIM balance to sign up for the $19.95 data without reloading.

    Other "gotchya" dings: Further playing with the GoPhone, I used the iPhone's Settings/Phone/AT&T menu to have AT&T send me my balance and my minutes. These are supposedly "no charge" services, but they are not on the GoPhone's Pay As You Go plan. I got dinged another $0.15 for each of the two messages sent. And here's the real hoot - one of the two messages was a message saying "this feature is not supported on GoPhone plans"! LOL.
  • My advice to anyone wanting to try this - make sure you use one of the third party Settings apps like Boss Prefs to disable EDGE before you even put in the SIM card. No sense in wasting any money on phantom data checks before signing up for the plan.
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