The Saitek Wireless 2.1 Speaker can be connected to a multimedia or MP3 portable media player. Since the speakers are wireless, the speaker does not have to be located next to the portable media player but could be up to 30 meters away! The 2.1 means there are 2 3-watt tweeters as well as a 3-watt subwoofer which produces excellent sound from a portable device.
…
Creative Labs Zen Sleek MP3 player can hold up to 10,000 songs and has a battery playback time of 18 hours! In addition to the size of the hard drive and the battery length, the MP3 player comes with a built-in microphone as well as a FM tuner.
The Zen Sleek features Creative’s vertical touch pad control and a large blue backlit display, which fits comfortably into the hand for fingertip management of all its powerful features.
If Apple’s products do not get you excited, Creative Labs has a different approach to form and function and should be on quite a few wish lists for Christmas.
…
The Apple iPod Nano is 62% smaller than the iPod Mini and has a color LCD screen. Apple has again released a gorgeous and sexy product and will hold as many as 500 songs that can play back for up to 14 hours straight on a battery charge.
This will be one of the absolute top items on most geek wish lists as well as one of the most purchased items this Christmas.
…
Have you ever traveled with a companion and wanted to share your headphones while listening to a portable DVD player or MP3 player? When travelling can you simply not turn your device up loud enough to drown out the rest of the noise on the plane? Are you a motorcyclists bored of hearing the drone of the motorcycle motor and wish you could listen to music instead? Are you an audiophile that would like your digital music to sound full even while wearing headphones? UpBeat Audio‘s Boostaroo Revolution may be the solution for you. Read our entire review to see what the Geeks thought of the product.
…
Just when you think the iPod market is saturated, Apple keeps producing iPods that people want to buy! The latest in the craze is the Apple iPod with Video. iTunes was even upgraded to sell videos such as Lost episodes that you can sync to the iPod video to watch later.
Apple also has the market on look, feel and form as this iPod is the thinnest one yet at .43″s thin. This is guaranteed to be on most geeks wish lists.
…
An upgraded version of palmOne’s popular Treo 600, you can usually either find a Treo 650 or a Crackberry in most professional’s hands these days. The Treo 650 features PalmOS 5.4 (including all the tradional PalmOS applications on a vibrant and dramatically enhanced over the Treo 600 320×320 screen. With a full QWERTY keyboard (albeit small), typing becomes rather easy and you will be typing quickly in no time.
Weighing in at only 6.3 ounces measuring a depth of only .9 inches, 4.4 inches tall and 2.3 inches wide the device can easily be used as a phone as well as a portable communication device.
…
The TicTalk is a cell phone for kids made for parents! Parent’s can control who the kids can receive calls from and at what times the phone can be used. This is guaranteed to be a huge Christmas hits for geeklets and their parental geeks alike.
…
Carry your PDA on your wrist with Fossil’s Abacus Wrist PDA. Powered by PalmOS 4.1 the watch contains the common PalmOS applications such as To Do List, Memo Pad, Time (it’s a watch!), Date Book and Address Book. With just under 8MBs of total storage you can store hundreds ot address or calendar events and extra applications. What a great geek toy… er, I mean personal digital assistant business tool.
…
The Dell Axim X51v comes with a gorgeous 3.7″ color TFT VGA display with 640×480 resolution with 16MB of video memory as well as 802.11b and Bluetooth wireless, integrated memory expansion (CF Type II and SD/SDIO/MMC) and a 3.5mm Headphone/Headset Jack for Headsets to support VoIP and voice recognition applications and a powerful PXA270 Processor rated at 624MHz. Sorry, I’m a geek-slave to stats!
Running Windows Mobile, the Dell Axim comes with a list of applications and other programs ranging from Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer Mobile, Windows Media Player, MSN Messenger, Terminal Services Client and even a VPN Client meaning in most cases you can bring this PDA on a trip rather than your laptop! This is a well-priced full functioned PDA.
…
$499 for a PDA? Are we in the late 90s?
Actually no, the Palm LifeDrive is almost a laptop replacement with native support for Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF files. Being able to go over presentations in the airport or working on your budget spreadsheet while sitting in traffic (not recommended) is not all the LifeDrive is good for. The LifeDrive has Bluetooth 1.1 and 802.11b built-in for wireless access which allows you to grab mail if you can find a hotspot among other capabilities.
With 3.85 GB of usable storage you can keep a year’s worth of email, 1200 Powerpoint presentations and thousands of Word documents. You can also use the built-in expansion card slot to expand the memory capabilities further.
Welcome to the world (well, the US) of microDrive PDAs!
…
