2010 Top Gadgets To Have

No doubt that iPAD is one of the hottest and most anticipated product in 2010. It is quite a revolutionary product and is the first tablet computer developed by Apple.The iPad is scheduled to go on sale in the U.S. on April 3 and the U.S. are able to pre-order the iPad as of March 12, 2010.

If you are planning to buy an ebook reader, iPOD, mini-computer, MP3, MP4, electronic photo album or a laptop, think twice. All these features and functions that you want to buy from these separate product and be found in the iPAD.

It is a touchscreen product similar to the enlarged version of a iPOD. The successfulness of this gadget depends very much on the availability and diversity of the applications compatible with iPAD. With the great success for iPhone and iPod in the Apple apps store, I forsee the same success for drawing huge crowd of IT developers who are willing to invest time to write creative and cool applications.

Definitely iPAD is one of the top gadget in my list to die for in 2010.

The new Nokia Phone N8 is just recently officially announced on 24th April 2010 and it is the first Nokia Phone based on its new Symbian 3 operating system. It boosts many powerful features such as the 3.5-inch nHD capacitive touchscreen, 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash. Nokia N8 comes with 16GB built-in storage with possibility to add additional 48GB with the microSD card. It capture videos with 720p at 25 fps and supports the H.264 and MPEG-4 codecs. With HDMI connector, you can connect Nokia N8 to a HDTV for playback of 720p HD movies with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound! With DivX and XviD support, N8 might just replace your home media player.

Symbian 3 is a much improved and oowerful operating system that support multi-touch, better memory management and more responsive UI. It also supports Flash video, YouTube browsing and streaming, multiple home screens and home screen widgets, WebTV, deliver live Twitter and Facebook updates directly to the homescreen. The Nokia N8 will be available in Q3 2010 and it is shipping now!

Nexus One is google's first smartphone that uses the Android open source mobile operating system. It is already available on January 5, 2010. What are the great features to look for in Nexus One? It includes the ability to transcribe voice to text, noise canceling dual microphones and GPS guided turn-by-turn voice directions to drivers. The capacitive touch screen is capable of handling limited multi-touch gestures.

It is a showcase from Google of what Android is capable of and how the future phone could be modelled.

You have watched 3-D movies in cinemas such as "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland". 3-D movies is expected to be a big hit this year so are the TVs. Imagine watching 3D movies at the comfort of your home? Imagine you could pause and rest any time at the mercy of your fingers whenever you like? Catch the latest 3D show at home will be coolest past-time soon. 2010 will be the year with many companies such as Sony and Philips pushing out 3-D TVs as new Blu-ray 3-D standards come into effect.

In Britain, British Sky Broadcasting company is launching a new 3-D channel this year and many others throughout the world is expected to follow. Movies titles in DVDs and Blu-rays will be readily available. 3-D TVs is definitely one of the hottest gadget I want to have this year.

Smartphone will definitely be leading the trends in mobile phone market in 2010. While touchscreen are getting common, I expect a hybrid of touchscreen plus the qwerty keyboard to be the next common form factor. The reason is that while touchscreen is easy to navigate, typing is still needed in many of the Internet applications such as browsing, emails and chatting. The combination of Qwerty keyboard and the touchscreen will make a perfect mobile killer phone for the young and internet saavy users.

Last year, Nokia had launched N97, N97 mini and some Nokia E7x models. This year, there is already the Inbrics MID M1 slider Qwerty AMOLED Touchscreen Ultra-thin Android phone Mobile displayed in World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. More of this kind of phone from other Phone company will follow.

2010 is a Year of the Tablet with Microsoft, HP, Archos and Pegatron joining in the bandwagon as well. Microsoft had announced 3 tablets that run Windows 7. One of them is the HP tablet is a color e-reader running Amazon Kindle software and an estimated arrival on the market by mid-2010. Two other similar products, one from Archos focusing on multimedia and a larger-screen slate from Pegatron, for reading newspapers and magazines.

I am expecting the stylish Microsoft tablet prototype called Courier to be here in 2010. The tablet used two adjacent 7-inch touch screens, connected through a hinge. The software pictured running on the tablet was also new, a combo of the Zune HD and Surface computers interface. 2010 is really the year for Tablet.

2010 is going to be the year for 3-D. Almost everything is heading towards that direction. Nintendo had announced recently in March 2010 that they will launch a successor to the DS/DSi for the next fiscal year (which begins next month in Japan and ends in March 2011).
Nintendo will allow users to experience 3D without goofy glasses. Nintendo has proven to be the leading innovator in gaming since the company was founded. Hopefully it will be backwards compatibile with its vast library of favorites from the older consoles such as the Pokemon games. Nintendo expects to launch the 3DS into retail "during the fiscal year ending March 2011."

For those who do not need the 3D and could not wait to get a DS, there is a new handheld, the DSi XL, that will launch on March 28 in the US.

This smartphone from Nokia had created a stream of follower since its launch at Nokia World on September 2, 2009 and was released on November 11, 2009 in the United States and 9 European countries.

Although it is not as well-known as the iPhone or Nexus One, N900 has many features that WOW many of the IT saavy users. It has many powerful features that is not found in other smartphones. It has almost all the wanted features of the most demanding users such as touchscreen, qwerty keyboard, internet, Maps and the ability to tweak. It is a mobile Internet device and querty smartphone, from Nokia based on the Maemo platform. It runs Maemo 5 Linux as its default operating system and is the first Nokia device based upon the TI OMAP3 microprocessor with the ARM Cortex-A8 core.

It functions as a 5 mega pixel camera, a portable media player, and a mobile Internet device with email and full web browsing. I am defintely going to get one for myself this year!

You already get a hands-on with the Wii controller which is revolutionary in its kind. Not to be outdone, Sony is set to launch its own motion controller for the Playstation 3. It should be out sometime in spring 2010. The wand-like controller is said to be more precise than any exsiting motion controllers in the market. It now has the name of PlayStation Move.

If you like to read, e-Readers are your good companion. The main advantages of these devices are portability, readability of their screens in bright sunlight and long battery life. Many manufacturers are already making e-readers and many more devices are expected to launch this year. Among the most popular ones are the Amazon Kindle 2, Kindle 3 and Kindle DX, Barnes & Noble nook, Sony PRS-900 and PRS-700.

The dedicated device for e-book will be getting competitive this year and important to consider the availability of ebook format they support and the tie-up with the e-book supplier. In 2010, flexible versions of the gadgets are in the pipeline. Taiwanese technology firm AU optronics was the first to announce late last year that it will be producing its bendable version of the e-reader in 2010. This will make the e-Reader more like a real book.

For gamers, here is a good news, don't junk your Xbox 360 yet. Microsoft is going to release late this year the new Microsoft's motion-sensing game device called Project Natal. The gadget works with Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console and translate the movements of a player's body and voice into actions in game. Imagine, you are able to fight your opponents virtually, ALL without a controller.

This gadget will definitely take gaming to a totally new level. Hurray!

3D seems to be everywhere and iPhone sure is not to be lagged behind. There are already a couples of iPhone applications and games that cleverly use the inbuilt Applications such as 3DeeFriends (which allows you to view your Facebook photo albums and those belonging to your Facebook friends in 3D) and 3DeeVUsion ( lets you turn your own photos saved in the iPhone's photo library into 3D images) are growing and will sure be a hit and trend for 2010. Squidoo in 3D, soon?

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