Motorola’s ROKR E8 is a head-turning phone with many built-in advances that give it a smarter interface than basic cellphones. Its standout feature is its keyboard, which dynamically changes to accommodate whatever you’re doing.
The once-frustrating process of sharing digital photos and videos has improved over the past year, thanks to seamless Web-based programs. One such application, shwup, serves as a neat, artistic way to share photos quickly — when it works.
Video-sharing service SeeToo lets users watch videos along with the people with whom they’re sharing it and type comments to each other in real time. But SeeToo sounds too good to be true, and in many tests, it was.
TiVo has a few tricks up its sleeve that might surprise longtime users and new owners alike. This column includes just a handful of those tricks and highlights some features that may make TiVo more useful.
Bluetooth headsets, which wirelessly connect an earpiece with a cellphone to allow hands-free cellphone conversations, are especially useful in cars where drivers should be keeping both hands on the wheel.
Two no-frills cellphones called the Jitterbug and the Coupe do a good job of handling calls, but some of the Jitterbug’s nonconformist features can be confusing for people familiar with cellphones.
Palm’s Centro is geared toward younger people who traditionally only carry a cellphone. Palm hopes the $100 device, a miniature version of the more expensive Palm Treo, will give it a much needed shot in the arm.
Apple’s new iMac includes a radical-looking keyboard, but the bigger change is the major update to its iLife software suite. Katherine Boehret tests the new programs with a particularly close look at iPhoto and iMovie.
Apple TV, a slender, wireless set-top box that connects TVs to computers, provides a simple way for people to show all the stuff trapped on their computers — video, music, photos — on their big TVs.
Edited by Walt and written by Katie Boehret, this is a guide to gadgets, web services and other consumer technologies.
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