What Mobile Tech Will You Buy This Year?
The first day of a new year in a new decade; what better time for geeks to be thinking of cool gadgets to come? We’ve looked at the gadgets we bought last year, let’s look at what geeky purchases are likely to come this year. Are you in the market for a cool mobile tech purchase? What do you anticipate buying this year? If you are thinking of buying a rumored product, go ahead and mention it. We don’t have to worry about what will actually appear, let’s concentrate on what we will likely purchase in 2010.
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Right now my plan is to purchase the asus 1005PE next week then purchase a tablet once a few come out with reviews.
It’s time to outfit a new traveling kit…
– New mobile phone (either a Nexus One or an iPhone)
– Portable computer (I don’t create much while on the road so a netbook will be fine)
– Media device ( a new tablet to function as an eReader and media pad)
– New bag ( I like the Boog bags)
Any thoughts?
Alright, I’ll admit it, I plan on buying the Apple Tablet. And another latest, greatest iPhone of course.
You plan on buying an Apple tablet despite not knowing what it will actually be or what it will do?
I like that. Apple is amazing at marketing, even when they may not have a product or not.
People are going to buy an Apple tablet that isn’t even real yet and they don’t know what it will even do. You sir, @66Sweep, are a company’s dream customer.
I know that it must be difficult to figure out that it will likely be a larger iPhone or an iPod Touch. As such it will likely run apps. It will play movies! Wow.
I plan on buying one as well, and frankly rare is the day that Apple does not deliver. Hey, I’m even developing for it even though it doesn’t exist!
I’ll buy one too – at the very least it’ll be quality hardware and do the limited things it does well.
Hopefully though they don’t make me get another 3g plan – I already have 4 – an iphone dock or being able to swap the sim card would be nice.
Or even better a mifi dock :)
And all the poor, little sheep say what? I was talking to a co-worker today (not tech-savvy at all) who had just purchased the latest generation Nano. I said she should’ve bought the Sansa fuse. You can get one for only 60 bucks and the memory is expandable. She said if she wanted that feature, she would just use her phone for music. I asked her why she didn’t just do that instead of buying an iPod. She replied, “Because… it’s an iPod!” You buy Apple for the same reason you buy a Lexus – not because it’s the greatest product of it’s kind in the market, but because it’s Apple. It’s a status thing almost.
A rare day when Apple does not deliver? Can we say MacBook Air? Most completely useless piece of overpriced sheep dung ever. Ooooo… it fits in an envelope. That’s great, but I don’t usually carry around a Manilla envolope for my gear.
I, for one, won’t buy a slate device *just* because it’s made by Apple. I *will* give serious consideration to one, and will hold back on committing my money until after Apple’s January product announcement, for three reasons:
1. I like Apple’s design sense. That’s a personal choice. You might not. I really don’t care one way or the other.
2. Apple has the juice to bring a lot of content providers to the table at entry if they introduce a device, and the rumors suggest that they’ve been busy lining those folks up. That could greatly expand the ecosystem of easily-accessible content from an Apple device compared to an Android slate. (I can’t envision Marvel or DC inking deals with Entourage to deliver comics to the eDGe, for example.)
3. Since I already have an iPod, and therefore a large collection of music organized through iTunes, an Apple tablet would have a somewhat lower barrier-to-entry in terms of using my existing media – I could just sync it to my desktop. An Android tablet will require some additional work to sync, and possibly shelling out to get non-DRM versions of tracks I bought from the iTunes Store before early 2009.
So essentially you want to buy one because you think it will be pretty and it will play all the music that you already have on your iPod.
Chalking it up to “it’s a status thing” shows a lack of understanding of the populace. Sure, for many, it is a “status” symbol. But there’s more to brand loyalties than just status.
There’s the fact that it’s a “known quantity”. There’s the fact that market momentum brings a large market of accessories, as well as a larger pool of resources (support resources, etc.).
It’s just like all of the people who buy Windows machines. They’re not _ALL_ idiots. Some of them are just taking the safe bet, instead of the good bet.
Or people who use Linux exactly because it ISN’T Windows (not because of the merits of the individual platforms). Just as stupid.
It’s not just the people who buy Apple products solely because they have an Apple on them.
In just about every market category, there’s a safe choice (or a few safe choices). And the safe choice varies according to what you’re looking for. People like that safety. They like it more than they like status symbols. The Sansa isn’t a safe choice. It might be a good choice. It may even (for some measures) be the best choice. That doesn’t make it the safe choice.
@Jake: did you even *read* my comment? Look at the part where it says “will give serious consideration to” again, please.
And then go learn all the other crap required by the Windows trick bag – and the lack of compatibility with so many other easy to use devices.
But, then, being smarter than all the people making money from iTunes through iPod to OS X – you already own all the other crap you have to kludge together to get half the ease of use.
Contempt breeds feelings of superiority – but, not good software.
I have pretty much the necessities down; phone and laptop. But, I really need an ereader or tablet or something that integrates both ideas. That would be ideal.
I like the Entourage eDGe, but it is too fugly for my taste. Hopefully that new Asus dual screen reader/netbook will be lighter and sexier.
CES is coming so we will see!
A tablet. Current front-runners are the Entourage eDGe and the ICD Ultra, with dark-horse slots reserved for cool CES announcements and the Apple iUnicorn, or whatever they’re calling it.
What I’m really hoping for is a smartbook capable of having Open Office installed, and capable of running on batteries for significantly longer than the current longest-lasting netbooks.
I hope a android/arm based tablet with 7 or 9 inch screen and slider keybord.
Maybe a new laptop.
Mid-year, will probably get an iPhone, Other than that I am set already with 2 laptops, a desktop, a tablet pc an an ipod touch. ut who am I kidding, I will consider a new tablet if Apple comes out with one that really allows me to use it for work and not just entertainment (same would apply to a Microsoft Courier).
The one purchase I am already looking to make in 2010 is a dedicated e-book reader. As part of my job I regularly need to refer to a lot of PDF docs and rather than wait while I fire up my tablet I want a device that can handle PDF files formatted for US Letter size. Until late in 2009 my thought had been to go with a Kindle DX but its lack of stylus support for highlighting text and jotting down notes meant it didn’t really fit my requirements. Now I’m waiting to see what Plastic Logic has to offer when it debuts its touch sensitive Que reader at CES.
The NEXUS ONE… looking very promising. I would also like to get a tablet, but running thin on gadgets budget…