TV chef Alton Brown has it right: Unitaskers – specialty devices that only perform one function – have no place in the kitchen. And single-purpose gadgets have no place in your pocket. The same way lemon zesters to garlic presses clutter up kitchen drawers and cabinets, electronic voice recorders and standalone CD players fill up your briefcase and entertainment center without ever justifying their existence in more than one very limited way. Though we may make exceptions for purebred machines that far outperform their all-in-one counterparts, most gadgets need to earn their keep in a multitude of ways. Here are 10 of our favorite do-it-all devices.
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The Best Smartphones of 2009: New Apple, BlackBerry, Palm and HTC Models Reviewed
With a new crop of ever-faster, ever-smaller, ever-better smartphones launching seemingly every month, there has never been a more enticing time to buy a smartphone. Or a more confusing time for the prospective buyer. The same plethora of options that make today’s smartphones the most best ever made also make the marketplace a minefield to navigate.
We’ve all been there: Your best friend claims the iPhone is the only way to go, but your boss insists you need a BlackBerry, the engineer who lives next door claims you need to go with Google Android, your geeky dad still swears by Windows Mobile, and your coworkers are all trying to cajole you into the Palm Pre.
Waiting in line for the iPhone 3GS, Why I Wished I stayed in Bed
It was supposed to be a dark and stormy night. In New York City, two-thirds of the Gillette triumvirate (Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter) got rained on and nearly out. Not only does Steve Jobs’ control a couple of the coolest companies on the planet, he must also control the weather. Instead of profuse precipitation spoiling his iPhone 3G S party, by the time the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan opened at 7 this morning, the sun had managed to carve out swaths in the overcast and rays of light illuminated the really early adopters waiting to buy the new iPhone 3G S.
Apple iPhone 3GS Disappoints at 2009 WWDC
For those of us without Apple tattoos, the reaction to Apple’s new iPhone 3G S, announced on Monday, seems to look pretty unanimous.
“That’s it?”
After building feature wish lists for months, furiously posting rumors in forums, and even mocking up Photoshopped prototypes of the new iPhone, Mac fans were today rewarded with… a slightly better iPhone 3G. If the leap from first-gen iPhone to second could be considered a baby step, consider this one a fetal heart murmur, because Apple clearly had no idea how to shine up the product it launched a year ago.
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