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Handheld Computing Magazine: Your Guide to Mobile Electronics

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Juniper Systems Archer 2. Dell Latitude E6430 ATG. Fuji FinePix XP200 rugged camera. Getac Z710 Android tablet. Olympus E-PL1 with PT-EP01. Olympus Stylus 1030 SW. Olympus Stylus 850 SW. Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1. Eye-Fi wireless 2GB SD card. Olympus Stylus 770 SW. Olympus Evolt E-410 (pre). Olympus Evolt E-510 (pre). 13 Thin Zoom cameras. 8 Long Zoom cameras. Portege M400 road test. Recent Reviews and Features. Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Full review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Kindle Fire HD 7 tablet.

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Tim Hillebrand on Mobile: The Palm Treo 800w

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Tim Hillebrand on Mobile. Gadgets, gizmos, whatever cool stuff's there . [ Back to Tim on Mobile. Laquo; Full Facebook on your Mobile Phone with Friend Mobilizer. Zinc II - A deluxe smartphone worthy of your consideration ». July 28, 2008. The Palm Treo 800w. Where was the audio output jack? You cannot charge your unit while listening to audio output. You cannot connect to standard external speakers. You can’t even talk on the phone while charging and using the headset earbuds that come in the box. And t...

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Pen Computing Magazine: the Apple iPhone 3GS after three months

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Having used it for three months,. How much better is the iPhone 3GS? By Conrad H. Blickenstorfer. Sure, low cost is nice, but no one can tell me it takes a two year contract to "subsidize" a cheap little phone when I can buy an unsubsidized big screen TV or fancy notebook computer for a few hundred dollars. Anyway, that's all beside the point. What I want to write about is my experiences with the iPhone 3GS. It it really that good? Did it live up to the hype? The answer is yes and no. And here is why.

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Pen Computing Magazine: Samsung Galaxy Tab

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Sprint Samsung Galaxy Tab. What can you expect from the iPad's first real competitor? By Conrad H. Blickenstorfer. What makes the Samsung Galaxy Tab so relevant? There are several reasons. Not having a big Wintel history undoubtedly helped Samsung boldy march ahead and release its first tablet with Android. Third, Samsung has an actual, high-volume tablet when everyone else is still just talking about it. And the Galaxy Tab is not just one of those second tier trial balloons. It's a real, honest-...Proac...

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Pen Computing Magazine: HP TouchPad

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Sharing the iPad's size and design,. HP hopes webOS will make the difference. By Conrad H. Blickenstorfer. But let's take a look at what HP cooked up with the TouchPad. In terms of tech specs, the TouchPad is powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm "Snapdragon" APQ860 dual processor. There is either 16 or 32GB of storage (why not 64 when Apple offers it? For now, check out the TouchPad here. At the Palm site, and HP's TouchPad press release is here.

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Pen Computing Magazine: Review of the US$149 ECTACO jetBook-Lite eBook reader

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. With premium eBook readers still being expensive,. ECTACO offers a less costly alternative with the jetBook-Lite. This is a review of the jetBook-Lite. What are some of the eBook caveats? Why haven't they taken over yet? EBook reader pricing is a bit of a mystery to me as I'd expect the readers would be priced using the same model that's used for cellphones: you get the cellphone at a heavily subsidized price in return for signing a contract with the phone company. That model...

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Pen Computing Magazine: Review of the Motorola Droid

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Dread the Droid, iPhone! I really don't want to waste a lot of time in a review of the new Verizon Motorola Droid comparing it to the iPhone. Let's get that topic out of the way by listing a few of Droid's killer features that should catch your attention and put iPhone on the alert:. Droid has a bigger screen than iPhone. Droid has infinite expandable memory. Droid has a lateral, physical, slide out QWERTY keyboard. Droid is integrated with all the Google mobile apps including Google Voice. On the top, w...

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Pen Computing Magazine: Multimodal Data Input

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A very promising approach to multimodal digital editing and correction. Original article November 2001; updated and expanded in February of 2009). Well, the keyboard is still here. And that is because making handwriting and speech recognition work turned out to be more complex than anticipated. However, both handwriting and speech recognition technologies have come of age and are now ready to be used in place of the keyboard. It is not easy to describe Natural Input in a sentence or two, or even a full r...

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Conrad's iPhone and iPad blog: Apple's iPad 2 -- Upping the ante

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Conrad's iPhone and iPad blog. Laquo; The best of times, the worst of times. Should I upgrade my iPhone and iPad? March 03, 2011. Apple's iPad 2 - Upping the ante. Steve Jobs announced the iPad 2 on March 2. No one expected Jobs to do it himself as he's been on a medical leave of absence for a while now. He looked none the worse for wear, though I can't imagine that things are very good for him. One area where the iPad has been taking heavy criticism is its lack of a camera. Virtually all smartphones...