I am not the gadget geek my friends and family believe me to be. No, really. As a tech reviewer for a dozen years I remain perpetually cynical toward the hot new media platform toys. Portable digital book readers? I sniffed at them in 1998 and refuse to drink Amazon's Kindle Kool-Aid this time. The Tablet PC, which many digital magazines once considered their launchpad to ubiquity, always looked like a minor niche play. And the relentless crop of miniature internet device and appliances, such as today's Nokia N810, are wonderfully doomed to failure. Get a good phone and data plan instead.
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