The Blackberry Storm is on Walt Mossberg's list
They include a phone, a printer, an underwater camcorder and an electronic reader – and they were all shown off at the annual hot gadgets night at the Churchill Club on Tuesday.
The theme this year is mobile. Everything was made to be portable.
According to The Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg, “the most interesting thing this holiday season is the keyboard-less Blackberry,” which is to go on sale November 21 from Verizon.
This touchscreen iPhone knockoff is called the Storm and it has a more haptic sensibility than the iPhone. When pressed, its screen gives a little to offer the feeling that a button or key has been hit.
It will cost $199 after a $50 rebate.
Also on Mossberg’s Christmas list is the Flip MinoHD camcorder, a shirt-pocket-sized device capable of taking high definition video. The video clips “come out (and) they’re great,” said Mossberg.
The camcorder has the capacity of about an hour and sells for about $229.
Greg Harper, co-founder of the gadget conference Gadgetoff, says he is in love with the first OLED (organic light emitting diode) picture frame for the consumer market. This Kodak product should be available online in time for the holidays and displays an exceptionally vivid, sharp image. “It’s a beautiful screen,” says Harper.
OLED makes a great picture frame, says Greg Harper
List price is $999.
Another of Harper’s favorites is the Panasonic SDR-SW20S, a $399.99 camcorder that can shoot underwater to depths of five feet.
Also keep your eye on Plastic Logic, a Mountain View company making a razor thin electronic reader scheduled for release in early 2009, says Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter. It is the size of an 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of stationary and is as thick as a pad of paper, with a large display.
Then, too, “I highly recommend the Kindle” reader from Amazon, says Williams.
Here are several other ideas:
*The RichardSolo 1800 backup battery for the iPhone. Cost is $69.95.
*The ClickFree automatic backup drive. The device plugs into a USB port and automatically backs up a Windows PC – no software to install. A 120gb version costs $75.
*The Planon PrintStik portable printer for computers and Blackberry cell phones. The device is no longer than a ruler and only 1.5 inches high. It prints using Bluetooth and costs $299.99.
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Just wondering, are these gadgets still hot this Christmas season. Sound pretty handy though.