Apple’s iPod event on Tuesday turned out to be devoid of any big announcements. The addition of a video camera to the iPod nano is welcome, but not Earth-shattering. The storage bump and internal specs revision on the iPod touch are similarly uninspiring and they guys say as much here.
As seems to be the case every week, there was a lot of cellphone news this week lead by Palm’s announcement of the Pixi and Motorola’s Cliq. Ryan shares that after having some hands-on time with the Pixi, it feels distractingly sluggish in day-to-day type operation. The Cliq has the guys intrigued, but Motorola’s take on Android doesn’t seem to be as full featured as HTC’s Sense UI.
A few other cellphone related topics are touched upon before the guys move onto Toshiba’s JournE home media tablet that seems to be a little over ambitious. Dell’s tease of the next entry into their floundering Adamo line, the Adamo XPS, gets some skeptical discussion. Dell claims that the notebook will be 10mm(~.4 inch) thick so to get a real sense of what this product will be, we need to some some specs. Don’t be surprised if there is an Atom processor in there.
Fall’s officially upon us, and this holiday’s big gadgets were launching fast and furious this week. From Apple‘s big fall music event we’ve got the new iPod nano 5th-gen, now with a video camera, an upgraded, faster iPod touch 3rd-gen, and a special edition iPod shuffle 3rd-gen. There was also a slew of cellphone launches as well, most notably the Centro-like Palm Pixi; the Motorola Cliq, the Android device they’ve spent the last couple years on; HTC new’s low-end Tattoo, as well as the Hero‘s forthcoming US launch, courtesy of Sprint. That wasn’t it, though, because we also caught our first glimpse of the new Toshiba JournE home media tablet, a teaser of Dell‘s new Adamo XPS, and even an LCD-based e-book device from Asus dubbed — you guessed it — the Eee Reader.
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