Digital Technology for Digital Living.
April 11, 2005
Top 7 gadgets I’m waiting for (to arrive in Australia)
It’s not easy, being a gadget lover living in Australia.
The combination of distance and population factors mean that we don’t often feel all the love we’d prefer from gadget manufacturers.
To wit, here’s a top 7 list of announcements I’m anxiously awaiting (if these things ever make it here at all):
Feel free to extend this list yourself, via the Comments section.
Kap | Comments (6) | Generalgadgets,gadget,gadgets shop, latest gadgets, new gadgets
On the iTunes Music Store, the latest round of rumours will no doubt be sparked by an article in one of the Fairfax papers on the w/end claiming Apple have been booking iTunes ads in the music magazines, to appear in May… (can’t re-locate the article I was reading to provide a link)
Pascoe – Awesome! I’ve been hearing rumours for the launch happening on April 28. So the two hand in hand work well. Having said that, as I said to Kap, I think I’ve been in this position before :)
Tiger is just around the corner as well. Who kows, I could be buy iTunes music shortly on OS X 10.4.
According to the AppleTalk forums, it’ll be May 1st for Tiger and a little later in May for the iTMS:
http://www.appletalk.com.au/
but I’ve heard too many misinformed rumours on release dates (esp. recently) to let myself become that excited.
Kap
A pity the Zaurus doesn’t have built in wirless – having to have a card in the CF slot means the cards antenna sticks out too far. :)
About the 6822… I don’t know, the keyboard is tempting, but I decided to take the 7610 instead, it has Symbian (lots of 3rd party apps) and quite a proper camera. I use it a couple of months now and it’s a breeze. Only thing is, no keyboard. So I’m deciding if I’m gonna take the overpriced bluetooth keyboard and I think I will since I’m a unix-console-junkie and then I’m able to remotely control my servers from everywhere! (and of course, SMS like there’s no tomorrow) :-)
the keyboard:
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,59218,00.html
the phone:
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,54665,00.html
BTW, I think ‘keyboard-logo’s’ are gonna be the latest trend! ;-)
There is a provider in Australia (http://www.kepastore.com.au/product.php?cid=121&pid=4), but considering the pricetag you are probably better off buying one from ebay or http://www.pricejapan.com/ as recommended on the open embeded forums (http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showforum=8)
Cheers!