12-06-2005, 01:30 PM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
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What Excites You This Holiday Season?
With the approaching holidays, we're all probably starting to get the itch for new technology. When Santa slides down your chimney / exhaust pipe / toilet vent in mere weeks, what device or gadget excites you enough to be having visions of dancing in your heads? Just to jog your memory, here is a quick rundown of what's been released these last few months (And a few we expect to be out soon, so those of you with birthdays early in the New Year have something to hope for). So whatever your religious affiliation, drop what you're doing, pretend to believe in Santa, pretend you've been a good little geek, and tell us what you want for Christmas this year...
For starters, you may want one of those shiny new HTC devices. Why not - the Jasjar is big enough and feature packed with WM 5 goodness, a laptop like design, VGA screen, and a fairly usable keyboard. The K-Jam is small and still stuffed with goodies like quad band GSM, WLAN, Bluetooth, and a keyboard. These devices don't come cheap, and availability is a limiting factor, but if you're a phone edition phanatic (to use the 'hip' spelling I just made up) it is about as much as you can ask for. A bit more attainable than these two devices would be Sprint & Verizon's versions of the HTC Apache, which are available soon (Verizon) or now (Sprint) and support those stuck on that "other" cellular network architecture.
But maybe HTC has scorned you or is just too unattainable. Perhaps the phoneophile in you is leaning toward the E-ten M600. Darius just finished his Comprehensive review of it, and while it lacks the USB host of its ancestor and Ed's beloved infrared, Darius seems happy with its performance and value. Still a bit pricey, but you can't expect a Phone Edition to be low price - although used I-Mate Pocket PCs are still floating around eBay for low cost, and they are only 2 years old! (That device still holds the record for Most Money Paid For A Device by yours truly).
Maybe a phone edition isn't your thing. Ok, how about a shiny new Axim x51v from the North Pole to your waiting hands? It has the latest OS, is a great value (especially with Dell dropping deals daily during December - check slickdeals.net and around the net), and has a pretty sizeable following among the PPC crowd. Jason wrote up a nice review earlier this on this device. While current x50v users might only see it as a 'dot release', those of you who aren't Dell Dudes already will find a lot to like about this device.
If you're not the Santa believing sort (I told you to put aside those religious affiliations!), you're probably looking forward to some other gift giving occasion, and for you, perhaps you'd be tempted by the Treo 700w which bridges the gaps between the two mobile device tribes and promises to be, at least, interesting when it makes its appearance this year. The Acer n300 is also being prepped for roll-out sometime (we assume) in 2006. Choices abound!
And of course there are all those other Techno goodies that may tempt you this year. Sony PSPs (If you can get over the horrible feeling of buying something from Sony), Xbox 360's (If you can get your hands on them), numerous PPC & PC accessories (Sure to help you waste time and/or be more productive this next year), and parenthetical side notes (At least those I haven't used already!).
What excites you?
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12-06-2005, 01:46 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
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What excites me this Christmas is the brand new Dell Axim X51v that my husband bought me. He thinks I know nothing about it, but there are definitely advantages to being the first one home to get the mail :wink:
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12-06-2005, 01:56 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Originally Posted by piperpilot
What excites me this Christmas is the brand new Dell Axim X51v that my husband bought me. He thinks I know nothing about it, but there are definitely advantages to being the first one home to get the mail :wink:
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What makes you so sure he didn't buy it for himself? :devilboy:
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12-06-2005, 02:05 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Aug 2006
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You know this is one of the 1st years in a long time that there are no gadgets out there that I just haft to have. It would be nice to get one of the nicely packaged Media Center PC's but they just cost too darn much.
Anyone else think the tech offerings this year are a bit bland???
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12-06-2005, 02:18 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Anyone else think the tech offerings this year are a bit bland???
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I agree whole heartedly.... nothing jumped out as a device I want to carry around with me to replace my 2215 and I think I am just going to hold on... I mean WM5.0 isn't doing that hot with all the little bugs and the fact that quite a few apps still don't support it.
I hope next year I have something that comes along as a good replacement for my near perfect device (which is the first I have ever owned btw)
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12-06-2005, 02:21 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I'd love to get a Jasjar or K-jam, but unfortunately here in Canada my carrier doesn't have them. I know I could order one off the net, but I don't want to have to take a second mortgage on my house just to buy a phone with no contract.
If I'm lucky my carrier will have these phones in time for Christmas next year. 
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12-06-2005, 03:11 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Re: What Excites You This Holiday Season?
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Originally Posted by Jon Westfall
...Xbox 360's (If you can get your hands on them)
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Yup, this is my big Christmas wish, but there is a catch. It isn't being released here until March 2, but being the good geek that I am, I've already pre-ordered it.
Things are being done a little differently here. Microsoft is including a VIP pack as an option with every pre-order. In addition, every pre-order requires a deposit. Apparently, Microsoft is working directly with retailers to ensure that the right number of units are supplied to meet the enthusiastic demand (this might just be PR fluff, but let's hope not).
Anyway, tomorrow's the big day where I hopefully receive my second wireless controller and Perfect Dark Zero, but annoyingly, without the console, I'll be denied the option of using it. For now, I'm counting down the days until March 2. 
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12-06-2005, 03:16 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 634
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Originally Posted by SteveHoward999
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Originally Posted by piperpilot
What excites me this Christmas is the brand new Dell Axim X51v that my husband bought me. He thinks I know nothing about it, but there are definitely advantages to being the first one home to get the mail :wink:
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I am so sure it's for me that I ordered myself a very sweet Vaja case for it which should arrive just after Christmas, all thanks to Jason and PPCT for the $100 vaja coupon that I won a few months back. I will be sorry to see my steadfast iPAQ 5455 relegated to the retired electronics drawer in my office, but I'm looking forward to having a nifty new VGA device :lol:
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12-06-2005, 03:43 PM
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Ponderer
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I guess my Christmas came early by purchasing the first HTC Apache in the city. It was fun to watch the EVDO system start up the next day, then all those MB fly by. I was shocked to find a Canadian carrier moving so quickly on a new data device.
Anyway, this Christmas I'm going to play by programming WM5 using Visual Studio.NET 2005, and learning the ins and outs of the new .NET CF. I have got to try the Direct3D extensions out!
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12-06-2005, 04:07 PM
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Ponderer
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Nothing all too phenomenal in the offerings this year. My holiday gadgetry will be confined to finishing up some DIY projects during the break.
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