Yes I am a gadgetaholic

My name is James and I am a gadgetaholic.  There I feel better having said that but I doubt there is anyone who would doubt this for a moment.  How big of a gadgetaholic? Here is a list of gadgets I have used over just the past few years, at least the ones I can remember:

• HP 100LX
• Sharp Wizard
• Franklin REX
• HP Jornada 820
• Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000
• Casio E-125 Pocket PC
• Palm xv5 w/ OmniSky cellular modem (first anywhere)
• Toshiba e-805 (first VGA Pocket PC)
• Sony u71
• Sony u750
• HP tc1100
• Fujitsu P1610
• Lenovo x61t
• HP tx1000
• HP 2710p
• MacBook Pro 17"
• OQO Model 01+
• iPod Touch
• Sprint Mogul
• HTC xv6700
• HTC Advantage
• Nokia n800
• Nokia n70
• Nokia N93
• Nokia N95-1
• Nokia N81
• Samsung Q1 SSD (first device with SSD)
• Amazon Kindle
• Zune
• BlackBerry 8830

And my all-time favorite for innovation with the slide-out mouse- the HP Omnibook.  I can't find any information about this online but it was one of the first Windows-based ultra-portables.  See the mouse in the photo.

Comments

[Jose R. Ortiz]

Hi, my name is Jose and I too, am a gadgetaholic. Although my list probably isn't as long as yours, I have already purchase three cell phones, a desktop PC including the Dell Crystal Display, and a few peripherals within the first two months of '08 so far. I have a problem. I need help.

[Allan_Jones]

There are some fine distinctions to be made here. Some of us (myself included)don't find mobile phones at all interesting, but find the idea of mobile computing and internet access extremely enticing. I have friends for whom exactly the reverse is true.

[John Hancock]

Ha! I remember that mouse, It seemed like a good idea at the time I suppose. I remember thinking that a lot of thought had gone into this thing for very little result. I was not at all surprised that it did not take off.

[Kevin Hughes]

LOL! Two confessions in one day..

I set up a blog a while back (which I plan to actually start posting to at some point), just to record the gadgets I get through, check out the list on the right...

http://kevindhughes.blogspot.com/

p.s I loved that click out mouse, had one of those on my first work placement.

[Hoot Gibson]

The HP device you have a picture looks like the HP 800CT. I just sold one recently for a whoppin' $50.

It was my first foray into a "smaller than 12" portable solution, other than PDA's.

=-= Hoot

[Susan aka gasusan2005]

I'm NOT admitting to ANYTHING....lol... but your list is alot longer than mine...

Hmm...I see an Amazon Kindle missing from your list

[James Kendrick]

Susan, duly added. I am sure that there are a bunch more devices I forgot but will add them too as I remember them. I didn't even begin to list all the bluetooth headsets I have used. :)

[Gavin Miller]

Ah, the Casio E125. A great PDA. I also had the E115 and the E105 before that. I remember jaws dropping when I showed my Psion toting collegues the E105, 1997 I think. I had a great touchscreen version of Galaxian on it too!

[Pam B.]

I was going to post about the HP Omnibook 800CT last week when James posted about that tiny forthcoming notebook by HP. It reminds me of the 800CT. I loved that notebook! I bought one from a seller on eBay to write my dissertation on it for $187 in 2001. (It was a lot of money on my student budget at the time). The 800CT was perfect for those long evenings spent working on those tiny tables you find in coffee shops! And that instant on feature was a dream!

[Gordon Cahill]

TX1000? Are these devices you've owned or just used and evaluated?

Sadly I think my list may be longer than yours.

Gordon

[JimAtLaw]

I owned one of those tiny OmniBooks with the built-in mouse, used it for work back in the early 90s. I thought it was spectacular and wonder to this day why no one else uses a similar mechanism.

[Mike Cane]

Geeeez.

Palm III +
CLIE S320 *
Toshiba GENIO PPC -
Palm TE *
LifeDrive -
Finnish Abomination VII VII 0 *

+ = bought by me full retail
* = given to me by others
- = bought by me ebay used

I also own, Palm IR KB (-), GENIO wired KB (-), Chinese BT KB (*), and PlayStation USB KB (-).

I also own an Everex Freestyle Palm-Size PC (-), but that, like, can't be used except to taunt it.

Look at that: NO notebook. NO UMPC.

Oh, should I mention my crappy pre-paid Thief^h^h^h^h^h Tracfone?

Yeah, I'm definitely NOT Geek First Class.

That's a relief!

[Mike Cane]

Hey, wait one minute there, jk. Didn't you also have a ZUNE?!!?

Then I should also mention an SD-based AAA-powered jWIN MP3 player.

Oh, and 2GB SDs and 1 128MB SD, 1 8MB Mstick, 1 64MB MStick.

All bought by me full retail.

[nomo]

JK: Didn't you have a Blackberry 8830, too?

[ChangBM]

From what I can gather its an omnibook 800 series or 600 series.
I found the manual online for the 600 series:) http://24.237.160.4/files/omnibook/ob600/Manuals/SrvManual/ob600epr.pdf

Also I am also a gadgetaholic, in just the past 6 years I've used
samsung Q1b
eee pc 4G and 2G (killed the 4G)
Fujistu u810
Palm TE2
Palm T1 and T2
IBM 600x
Hp Dv8000 series
Ipaq 3850, 5550

There are more but I don't remember em all.
Sony PEG-UX50

[JayWalk]

I am surprised that there isn't a Psion in your list.

And yes, the HP slide-out mouse was ingenius!

[Gatewood]

I tried to make a list once. Filled four type-written pages, got embarrassed and quit. I've added a few since then...

[B]

james, just be glad your gadgetolism doesn't extend to firearms like mine does.

[Mitchell Oke]

Hmm, over the years I've had:

Palm m100
Palm V
Jornada 545 (16MB, painful!)
Dell Axim X5
HP iPAQ 1935
HP iPAQ 2215
Nokia N-Gage
HP iPAQ 4355 (my favourite non-phone PPC of all time)
Sony Ericsson T610 (BT with my 4355)
XDA II Mini (favourite PPC Phone of all time)
imate K-JAM
imate Smartphone (cheap off eBay, to try out WM Smartphone)
imate SP5 (first WiFi WM Smartphone!)
Sony PSP
Sony Ericsson M600i
Nokia N73
Sony CLIE NX70
Palm Treo 750
Samsung SGH-i600 BlackJack (Euro model)
HTC Universal
Sony Ericsson P1i
Nokia N95-1
Nokia N95 8GB
iPod Touch 16GB
Car PC

Does this mean I have to attend meetings too?

[Mitchell Oke]

Ooooh, I just remembered I had a Joranda 680 at one stage. Great little device that thing, especially with a WiFi card.

Hmm, and laptops....

Toshiba 200CDS
Toshiba 2750DVD
Dell Inspiron 5100
Dell Inspiron 8600 (1680x1050 15" screen!)
Dell Inspiron 710m
MacBook Pro 15"

[James Kendrick]

Zune and BlackBerry 8830 added as I forgot them. The BB 8830 is my everyday phone, too. 8-)

[nomo]

Maybe it's not classified as a "gadget" if you actually use it every day.

[oldkenobi]

I actually have a working omnibook 600CT on my shelf here with windows 95 installed on a whopping 260mb hard drive...

[Ragnobash]

If anyone wants to relive the days of yore, here's a omnibook on sale @ ebay for a dollar ;-)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Hewlett-Packard-Omnibook-300-Laptop-Notebook-Used_W0QQitemZ200203491442QQihZ010QQcategoryZ140082QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem