Confessions: good and bad picks
We are nearing October 2008 that will mark full three years of my blogging. I posted a lot on gadgets and devices and I have to admit not all of them proved long term as good as initially expected. To be honest: most of them failed and I either sold them on an Internet auction or they found the way to the big box I keep in my basement...So the winners are:
- Sony PSP. I love the console, the speed of the games. And the latest version even has VoIP (as predicted).
- HTC SP5M. I lost it. And it was not 3G. But it would make it to the winners lounge. Non-touch Windows Mobile is really a good piece of an operating system.
- Google storage. I use it everyday. My Gmail is less than 20% full. And my Picasa holds my entire photo collection.
- Microsoft DirectPush. Love it. Even the 3G iPhone has it.
- HSDPA Internet on the go. Everybody is using it.
- Pandora. Fantastic. Shame the labels are killing it.
- Squeezeboxes. Have four of them, in use every day.
- Google Browser Sync. The only reason I still run Firefox 2.
- Cleartype. Turn it on, my friend. Life will never be the same...
- Google Office. Business still requires Word, but I do all my private stuff there.
- USB as a power source. Everybody uses it as if it was always present.
- SyncToy. Still helps me keep my stuff synchronized with the home NAS.
- Slimserver. Serving my morning music everyday.
- Google Notebook. Get it if you don't have it already. Only gets better with time.
- Samsung SGH-600i. Still my primary phone.
- Sony PS3. No wrinkles and no signs of being tired.
- Yamaha YSP. Fantastic and delivers on promise.
- Motorola IHF1000. Sounds great and delivers on promise with speaker independent voice recognition.
- Fujifilm S5Pro. I still admire every picture it takes.
- d-GPS. Goes everywhere I go with the Fujifilm.
- ReadyNAS. Everyday work horse. Runs out of space. Soon to be upgraded with 1TB drives.
- Hitachi 200GB FDE Drive. Love it. No hassles, fast and secure.
- Asus EEE 901. Fantastic for its price. And after months with Vista, XP seems lightning fast.
- HomePlugAV powerline networking. Plenty fast. I am writing this over the PLE200.
- Nikon D40. Light, easy to use and takes really great pictures.
- Fujitsu S300. Phenomenal, hassle - free ease of use.
- HTC JasJar. Too slow, to heavy and Windows touch is a crap for everyday use. Have I told you the batteries barely lasted 4 hours? No? You should have asked...
- Mobile Skype. I do not know anybody actually using it.
- TV sets with built-in browsers. Nowhere near. Laptops rule living rooms.
- Quicklogic. This one is a real dog at $1,50 or below. But I still hold the shares.
- Origami. Microsoft still has trouble reinventing itself.
- Planon RC800. Great idea, poor software and poor quality. I still carry it with me most of the time, but use only in emergency.
- Internet Explorer 7. Cannot imagine things may be sooo sloooow...
- A2DP. Incompatibilities, power issues consumption, poor sound. I am back to wired headphones. May be next Apple will change it...
- Mogo Mouse. Still needs a surface... Multi touch is the new kid on the block.
- USB Cells. Well... I guess I do not have any AA-powered device at the moment...
- WRV200. I celebrate the day I turned it off. I just hate when something needs a reboot to keep on going.
- Foveon. Great pictures if all stays still. Great idea, great chip, poor application performance.
- Linux on PS3. Takes too long to load and configure.
- UMA. The lack of QOS is killing the conversations.
- Toshiba camera. Why oh why it needs an ActiveX to display pictures?
- Nokia tablet. Despite numerous upgrades crashes every five minutes. Frustrating.
- Momento. WiFi that does not handle WPA. The devil in the details. As always.
- Belkin Network USB. Too slow over WiFi. May be 802.11n upgrade will give it a second chance?
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