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Thursday, February 27, 2003  

I love Gadgets
I love gadgets. I always have. And the Japanese are the kings of cool-gadget-tech. For example: USB powered hot-plate. And I though USB fans were cool. And then there is this device. A hands-free headset from Nokia that also has a digital camera. Very close to the Transmet(warning site is Flash-tastic) photo-shades. The Nokia device would be killer if it was on of the "ear-clip" headsets (like this one) but had a forward facing lens with a voice-activated command to take the pictures. The "John-Index" says 9 months before we have one of those.

My newest gadget, the T68i cell phone is working out pretty good. As a cell-phone I'm very happy with its performance. Very clear calls, and good reception. As a gadget I'm still working on it. I have 2 flavors of Wireless Internet working on it (GSM and GPRS for those who care) but currently the only way that it works is if I connect though the Cingular gateway, which is pretty lame. I can check POP e-mail, but there is a better way to do it that I can't get to work. Evidently Cinguar doesn't support this feature. Which is BS all I need is the IP of the Cingular SMTP server, but the tech-support goons won't give it to me. I was able to play with the bluetooth at the Apple lunch event last week, so it was surprisingly easy to use. So I look forward to the point where my computer has BT capabilities. Once I get the camera-attachment for the phone things will get very cool very quickly. Mobile-photo-blogging baby!

posted by JMV | 2/27/2003 10:44:00 AM
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