Operation Gadget
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FujiFilm Z1 and Other Members of their New Line of Digital Cameras Leave Off the Optical View Finder
Reading Time: 2 minutesFujiFilm Z1: One of the new compact digital cameras announced today by FujiFilm. These are cool cameras, but they lack an optical viewfinder. [ Photo: FujiFilm ] FujiFilm announced the FinePix Z1, a 5.1-megapixel digital camera that’s thinner than a standard deck of cards and has a 2.5-inch LCD screen that is…
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January 31 – February 6, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the first week of February 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…
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Many Microsoft Employees Choose iPods for Their Own Use
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe other day Wired News published an article that cited an unnamed high-level manager at Microsoft who estimated that 80 percent of Microsoft employees who own a portable music player have an iPod. If true, that’s a pretty big indictment of Windows Media Audio. For a year or two I’ve been on…
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Data Plan Inconsistency Plagues Initial Cingular Treo 650 Purchasers
Reading Time: 2 minutesI spent a long time today lurking on mobile phone bulletin boards and talking to people who work for Cingular. I’ve come to the conclusion that people trying to buy the Treo 650 are getting dramatically different advice about which data plan to subscribe to. If you don’t talk to anyone, and…
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Cingular Formally Announces Treo 650 Availability
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt Midnight Eastern Time, Operation Gadget received the formal announcement that Cingular is taking orders for the palmOne Treo 650. So far, it has appeared for sale on-line in the palmOne Treo Store. There is information available about the Treo 650 on the Cingular website, but the link to order the…
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H-P iPAQ h6315 is Here for Review
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOur friends at T-Mobile just sent me a H-P iPAQ h6315 PDA Phone for review. This is a Windows Mobile 2003 PDA with a quad-band GSM/GPRS mobile phone, WiFi, Bluetooth 1.1, IrDA, and USB connectivity. Supposedly, I have two weeks to test this feature-laden device, which means I won’t be able…
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Cory Doctorow on Why You Should Buy a Smartphone
Reading Time: 2 minutesBoing Boing pointed out a great article by Cory Doctorow in Popular Science that makes a strong case for buying a Smartphone. He says that Smartphones like the Sony Ericsson P900, the Nokia 6620, and the palmOne Treo 650 are worth buying because owners can install their own software on them. This…
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January 24 – 30, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fourth week of January 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…