Here’s yet another list of so-called coolest gadgets, this time for January 2006. Courtesy of IDG News, the apparent coolest gizmo in the coldest month (Jan) is the Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD player. The HD-XA1 plays HD DVDs in either 720-progressive or 1080-interlaced modes, handles current-gen DVDs, and is one of the opening moves in the Blu-ray versus HD DVD format wars.
1. Toshiba HD-XA1 HD-DVD player.
2. Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Disc player
3. Pioneer BDP-HD1 Blu-ray Disc Player
4. Sony Reader
5. Panasonic VDR-D300 DVD Video Camera
6. Panasonic 103-inch Plasma TV
7. Samsung HSDPA Cell Phone
Samsung’s HSDPA phone is still in the digital sandox, but a prototype has reached a blistering 3.6 Mbps. The High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) 3GPP Release 5 spec can ramp up to 10 Mbps.
January’s coolest gadgets – IDG News Service, 01/17/2006
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Interesting that an HD-DVD player beat two Blu-Ray players back in early 2006.