Some of you may not realize this, but there is a new writer over at Just Another Mobile Monday. For the first time, JAMM has hired a female writer. And not just any woman, but one you all should be familiar with, Gear Diary’s own Judie Lipsett Hughes. For her first JAMM review, Judie took a look at the latest iteration of WebIS Pocket Informant. Take a look, but be kind. Remember, she is kind of the “newbie” over there. In her review, Judie, who has been a Pocket Informant user almost since its inception, looks at the new features in this version, as well as the returning favorites. In addition to giving her (sometimes blunt) views of the features included in… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Since I have been writing here at Gear Diary, and at JAMM, I have had the opportunity to test numerous Bluetooth headsets. I love the freedom that Bluetooth gives you to talk on your phone without tying up your hands. On the other hand, I hate having a piece of plastic stuck on my face all the time (especially one with an annoying flashing blue light). To me, the ideal Bluetooth headset must find a middle ground between these two interests: allowing me to easily use it to place and receive calls, while remaining unobtrusive and accessible when not in use. This is essentially the challenge which SoundID posed to some of the world’s top acoustic scientists and engineers when they developed the SM100. Ever since I learned of this new company, I have eagerly anticipated the result. Now that the SoundID headset is available, let’s take a closer and find out if it lived up to my expectations, or fizzled out in a hiss of static. Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Over the last couple of months I have been hooked on YouTube. I visited the web site every day, watched more than 500 videos and even posted my own. On my travels through YouTube, I came across some really awesome videos that I feel Gear Diary readers will enjoy watching. I narrowed them down to a group of twenty and here they are: “I Love You Cause I Have To” The girls who post music videos under the username “HoiTahPoiSha,” make some of the best creative videos I have ever seen. The editing and choreography are great! Continue reading on Gear Diary …

And how! As the United States gets ready for what is shaping up to be a more interesting presidential race than usual, one company has decide to go for broke with what has to be the most amusing piece of political memorabilia I’ve ever seen…a Hillary Clinton Nutcracker. Continue reading on Gear Diary …

Radio-controlled helicopters are cool toys and the manufacturers are still making new models and evolving them to include new and better features. When HobbyTron.com approached Gear Diary to review the new HobbyTron.com branded Hornet 3 mini RC helicopter, Judie thought immediately of me and asked me if I wanted to review it. I said yes! So, I guess I am now the resident RC helicopter pilot around here. Review updated July 22, 2007: Added video of the Hornet 3.… Continue reading on Gear Diary …

[Note: This is a joint review between Just Another Mobile Monday and Gear Diary; it is being simultaneously posted on both sites. Doug’s comments appear in black normal typeface. Judie’s comments appear in blue italics typeface] Even if you have never used a device branded by HTC, you have probably used an HTC device. Most of the popular Pocket PC’s available today were designed and manufactured by HTC, including: the Dell Axim, the HP iPaq, and the Palm Treo (to name only a few). So, it came as little surprise when HTC began branding devices on their own, or that their self branded Pocket PC’s would became some of the most popular devices on the market. Their latest offering, the Sprint Mogul by HTC (otherwise known as the PPC-6800) is no exception. I will admit that I was a bit of a skeptic when it came to this phone. Its predecessor, the PPC-6700 had been much maligned. The general consensus seemed to be that the PPC-6700 looked great, but looks can be deceiving. I was one of those that bought an HTC Apache or PPC 6700, and after the grand excitement of “Hey! A Windows Mobile phone that is available [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I posted “Transformers Invade the Nintendo DS”, about the coming games Transformers Autobots and Decepticons for the Nintendo DS. Well the games were released, and last weekend I picked up the games. Continue reading on Gear Diary …