Hotz is Hot with a Deal!

Wikipedia has an article on him already, He has blood pumping in the Apple camp, there are news results in "Google News", CNN, BBC and Times. Who is this 17 year old New Jersey teen? What does he do? Why is he famous? - He Hacked the iPhone!

Hotz has traded his iPhone hack with CertiCell a Kentucy based Cell Phone repair company for a Nissan 350Z Speed Car and 3 80GB iPhones to be given away to his 3 online collaborators[ jpetrie, gray, and iProof] who worked with him for about 500 hours(8 hours a day) during the holidays.

George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American student best known for producing the world's first full hardware unlock of the Apple iPhone, allowing the phone to be used with other wireless carriers, not just AT&T as Apple intended.

Hotz dismissed his friends when they called him wasting his holidays, guess this is the reward he gets for toiling with Online collaborators to hack the iPhone - AT&T monopoly!

Hotz has been asked to do consulting work for Certicell and Puremobile, Hotz uses blogger.com for blogging. His next project will be to make a GPS for the iPhone that uses Triangluation from the cell phone towers.

Nokia N95 is the Media Phone of the Year 2007-08

Nokia N95 multimedia computer has been voted the "European Media Phone of the Year" 2007-2008 by the EISA, (European Imaging and Sound Association ), Europe's leading association for consumer electronics.

Nokia Batteries Reported to Overheat on Charging - Relacement Link

Nokia today issues a high alert for the Nokia BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Co. Japan between Dec 2005 and Nov 2006. Only this type of battery is issued with an alert, and none of the other batteries have a problem.

Officially Nokia has identified in very rare cases(they call) the Nokia Branded BL-5C batteries and claims it might short circuit while on charge due to over heating. Nokia seems to be working closely with the battery company to get this fixed, and investigate the problem.

46 Million batteries are suspected to be affected with this kind of a problem, and there have been over 100 incidents reported, and officially accepted by Nokia. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported.

Consumers better get back to Nokia for an advice because all the incidents have happened while the phone is on charge and nothing happens during the usage. Consumers with the BL-5C battery, better walk to your nearest showroom and get it checked.

How to identify a BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita during the relevant period?

In order to determine if a battery is subject to this advisory, it is necessary to remove the battery from the device. A Nokia battery will have "Nokia" and "BL-5C" printed on the front of the battery. On the reverse, the Nokia mark appears at the top and the battery identification number (consisting of 26 characters) is found at the bottom. Consumers should refer to this identification number to determine if their battery is among the batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. A comparison of that number with those subject to this advisory will determine a consumer's ability to obtain a replacement free of charge.

Consumers should visit the website www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement or contact their local Nokia call center.

Mosh Mosh Everywhere in Nokia Dreams

MO-SH, Mobilize and Share, so call it MOSH, a new Social Networking(Web2.0) site from Nokia Stable, that allows users to share, collect, upload and create Games, Software, Videos, Photographs from vacation, favorite music and anything from your mobile for instance. Nokia, following the Twango buy out news, is on a spree to make it a hit in the "Social networking on Mobile Platform"

The official site of MOSH defines such:

A user-generated content platform designed specifically for use with any mobile device. Create, upload, collect and share applications (like games, software mashups, videos, blogs, music and photos) all from your mobile.

Related News:

1. Nokia Buys twango, Photo Sharing made easy
2. How to Post to Twango from your Mobile.
3. iPhone Theme for Nokia
   

How To Get More Diggs For Your Story?

After a lot of trial and error, and a long time research, we have devised these following rules to get the most Diggs for your Stories:

Top Tips to Get More Diggs:

1. Make your story title crisp, with right keywords.
2. Let the description convey all the juice of your story. This encourages more Diggs by Digg users without even going to your website. Most users are lazy to go to your page and come back and Digg you unless it is a very compelling story.
3. Do not forget the "Profile Icon" - make it as captive as possible. Distractive let it be, with bright colors and simple design.
   
4. Add a legible Digg Icon Linked to the story URL, encouraging your casual visitor to Digg the story.
   

Bad Torrents Will Die Soon?

Another Web2.0 website, this a security website that allows the torrent user to report bad (or) spam torrents. This is purely a user contributed content and the authoring website does not have to do anything with the data

TorrentSpam.com is a free Torrent Spam checking site that allows users to determine if a Torrent is bad or not.

Claims the website, "Free" - man it is a web2.0 user fueled site, and hence needless say, it is free. You are the one making cash outta this, and so bragging it is Free, makes me feel yak.,

When you find some torrent empty, malicious or not the right size it claims, please report it to torrentspam.com, hoping to stop the bad torrents out of the community.

M-Envelope Gmail Video - Be Part Of It!!

Here is a chance for all those video buffs out there, you can be a part of the M-Envelope video mail chain started by Google Gmail. The video is one of a kind idea, where the chain video will be shot by gmail users and will be uploaded to the Gmail Site Here. Gmail asks the users to keep the video under 10 seconds, and make the "M" logo visible, this is a easy, no-fee marketing trick. Instead of paying millions to a single "ad agency" this idea might just work. Let us wait for the final version, and see how many ideas just pop out.

I like you people who do not have the time to shoot the video, but have ideas striking your mind, to just write it down here. We can check if one of your such idea is part of the final video or nominations at a later point of time. Just click on the comment link below and write your idea for the "M-Envelope Video"!! Good Luck.

80000+ FExplorer v3 Gone - Get Yours

FExplorer by far the best File Management application for the Symbian OS(which Nokia Smart Phones use) has evolved as a great and inevitable tool for the Smart Phone user. The much expected 3d Edition of the FEXplorer was released in the end of June and has crossed 80000 downloads since. Did you grab your 3d Version yet? here is the link.

This application, for the S60 flavor of Symbian Smart Phones, is not yet signed by Hugo, where he states lack of time, and asks his users to download them and sign it themselves. Well when good things come for free in life, you are expected to put some effort to reap the benefit! Here is the link to know how to sign your .SIS file.

Read more about how to set Operator Logo for Nokia and other symbian S60 Mobile phones, and other Tricks here. Get more tips on your mail from here.

Nokia Acquires Twango - Photo Sharing Made Easy!

"Microsoft Veterans founded Twango" in hands of Nokia Now - Means a comprehensive media sharing experience awaits it's users.

Espoo, Finland, Twango provides wonderful media sharing facility for organizing, sharing and uploading photos, videos and almost all media from a (compatible) mobile phone device.

This means, Nokia is in a position to offer people another easy way to share their multimedia from their desktop or mobile devices. The Twango team will be part of Nokia and this means good for the users and Nokia too, the team is seasoned in the technology and they know what they do, Twango team is competent in Web Services and the Mobile technology behind this whole application.

Jim a former Microsoft Veteran exclaimed - "Nokia's unique vision for social media aligns perfectly with Twango,".

"It's really exciting to imagine what we can achieve by combining our social media experience with the resources of a company that has played such a major role in shaping the mobile landscape. Now, we will have the resources to deliver on our vision to enable people to capture and enjoy their personal media on mobile devices, desktop computers and in all the other places that are important to them."

[Source: Official Nokia Release]

Torrents Will No More Be A Menace - True?

Is it true that Torrents would no longer pose a threat to Copyright Owners and Producers? - Well that is what folks(least Justin) at "FileRights" claim, and have announced an application that would do a nifty job for it's subscribers - for free indeed!

Media Owners (Movie Producers, Music Label Owners and Software Companies) can rest in peace(try Yoga) now, by enrolling and listing their Media with FileRights. FileRights from then on will keep an eye on the "media" with it's Unique Hash ID (Ok if this is the key, guess torrents will change the way they work form now on, may be there will be spoof Hashes?) and if found on participating Torrent Search Engine Companies will remove them.

Man this guy, plays both sides(probably after the suit), Justin of Torrentspy started this application called 'FileRights' .torrent removal system, and now there will be more participants like ISOHunt and Torrentspy. We have to wait and watch how this will turn out to be good for the torrent search engine hits. Will people boycott both these sites, or will torrent makers come up with another method of spoofing " FileRights"? we have to wait and watch!!

Tips: Not able to complete a torrent download due to rubbish data? - Solution
Security: Torrent Security - learn Some Tips

Windows Live Writer Team Responds After The Beating!

"Windows Live Writer Team" Responds After The Beating! in my article on Live Writer a few days back. They have promised to come up with a great interface, and fix these

Windows Live Writer Team Responds After The Beating!

problems. Hope we all see a good Writer in a few weeks, and it helps us blog the better way. Here is what Joe Cheng Of the Microsoft Windows Live Writer team wrote to me:

Believe me, nobody is as unhappy about this bug as the members of the Windows Live Writer team. It is not directly within our control but we are doing everything in our power to see this fixed in the next release!

Find your way in Complex Indian Roads! - WayFinder Ties up with Indian Giant Airtel!

Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel said, "As market leaders, we are at the forefront of bringing pioneering solutions that delivers greater value and enhances the communication experience of all Airtel users. We are now introducing in India, a state of the art GPS based navigation system that will largely benefit all frequent travelers using compatible mobile handsets like BlackBerry 8800."

That was from a Press release from "WayFinder" - the leading Travel Planner in Europe and Americas. WayFinder is a nifty application that sits on compatible handsets( like Nokia 6600, Nokia 6630 to Nokia N76 and the like of Blackberry) and shows you street by street data to travel. Let you be the frequent business traveler or the kind that hits the road every weekend instead of the bar! WayFinder will be your single source to plan and travel!

"With Wayfinder services Airtel will be able to increase their data service revenues as well as customer loyalty", says Magnus Nilsson, CEO at Wayfinder Systems, which is true to a large extent. Both can mutually benefit with the end user tasting the best of both worlds, and having fun at the same time. Data services need to be faster, and these applications can make sense much more.

WayFinder can speak out to you the user, like "take left after 100 meters" - this will prove to be one rocking application. Try out the trial application(India have to wait till the end of July) if you are the Europe region or the Americas!

Compatible with: Nokia 3230, Nokia 3250, Nokia 5500 Sport, Nokia 6260, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 7610, Nokia E50, Nokia E60, Nokia E61, Nokia E62, Nokia E65, Nokia E70, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N73, Nokia N80, Nokia N90, Nokia N91, Nokia N92, Nokia N93, Nokia N95

N95 - Nokia Announces the release of A-GPS

Nokia users who use certain GPS enabled handsets will no longer be lost in this vast wide world. They have a very fast service that can tell where they are and show route to where they need to go.

Assisted GPS(A-GPS) service is the feature that helps Nokia Maps user find his current position, Nokia intends to equip all of the future devices with this service. Nokia 6110 navigator has begun shipping in select regions and N95 users can cheer too. With the most recent release of the upgrading software for the N95 multimedia computer, one can reap the benefits of A-GPS.

Owners of the Nokia N95 can now get this free service by downloading the Nokia Software Updater from - http://www.nokia.com/softwareupdate This will update the firmware on the device to the latest version - claims Nokia.

TTFF (time ti first fix) has been dramatically reduced, and so the time taken to know a certain position of the Mobile is faster.

For more info on Nokia Maps - check their site.

SunRocket Down - Other Monkeys Jump Around!

SunRocket VoIP provider has shut operations due to various reasons and their voice services will not be available to users now on. SunRocket takes no more sales calls, and are out of business in abrupt. While the Rocket is down in Virginia, Jajah launches it's Click-To-Call service to eharmony dating leader. This news means, competitors like Jajah, Skype, Paltalk, Rebtel, Jangl would be making fast moves to grab the market share. We need to wait and watch how this news will unfold in the coming weeks, who's buying who, who's going where!!

How To Track Your Shipment - Package using Google?

You can track your shipment with the help of Google. You need not know the website of your shipment company to do so. If you have a tracking number, just enter the tracking number in the Google search box, and hit enter. You shall be shown the corresponding Shipping Companies website link, and you can see the details of your shipment directly.

Here are some Examples:
[click on the links to see how it works]

UPS tracking with Google - "1Z9999W99999999999"
FedEx tracking numbers - "999999999999"
USPS tracking with Google - "9999 9999 9999 9999 9999 99"

Techblo's Top 5 Under $200 Digital Cameras

This is Our Special Edition for this Holiday Season: Top 5 Under $200 Digital Cameras
[Only Compact and Ultra-Compact Form Factors are suggested here under]

Canon PowerShot A630: Canon leads the Digital Camera arena and this is a steal for under $200 coupled with a underwater waterproof casing this is you perfect Snorkeling Vacation Camera! Canon A630 is the best in category with a 8Mega Pixel resolution complemented by a 4X optical zoom. 80 to 800 ISO range allows you to shoot in bright beach light and in very low light conditions, wonderful 9-point Auto focus allows you to capture a large group of friends in your small camera - with great face clarity! That is enough of cream for a under $200 camera, and this monster give you more, like a Tilt and Twist LCD, Manual and Preset White balance, Lens thread with adapter facility (so you can add a tele zoom lens), stores in the most common SD Memory card and supports MMC as well, runs on typical AA cells(so you never short of them), video out to view your pictures directly on a TV Screen, and hey it is quite heavy enough for a steady shot(315grams) !

Casio Exilim EX-Z70: Under $200 this is a very cute little camera that sits in your pocket without bothering you, providing 7.0MP, 3X zoom, Video Clip capability, and very easy to use menus. This ultra compact digital camera has to be driven by a Lithium Ion rechargeable battery and that sets you back by the limitation of it's charge. Otherwise this is just a wonder and we recommend this for the traveler who likes a light weight camera. [I suggest this for Traveling Elders, Parents, and Grand Pa's - Ideal Çoz it is light and easy to use]

Nikon Coolpix L12: This popular Nikon Coolpix model gives you a 3X Zoom on a 7.1Mega Pixel camera. This camera comes with a great feature called IS (Image Stabilization) which is good for minimizing camera shake. Perfect for a vacation, where you are not a focusing on a perfect shot, but a shot to register the moment! So go ahead enjoy the moment and point-and-shoot leaving the rest to the IS of this camera. Manual white balance, Continuous drive, and a large 2.5" LCD screen makes this edge out in the under $200 category. [A bit advanced model, for the enthusiastic traveler]

Fujifilm FinePix A610: Just announced Jan'07 this is a wonderful compact digital camera, with great user reviews all over the world, very popular and less expensive (under $150) delivering crisp pictures and great prints. The 2.5" large LCD display and the 3X Zoom makes it a great camera with power to shoot video, and the best part is it runs on 2 AA batteries and you are safe on your trip, with AA batteries all around the world.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ7[party-goers camera]: Lumix LZ7's got a good grip, and it fits well in your bag/pouch, small enough to fit your pocket too. Loaded with a mega 7X Zoom and 7.1MP effective pixel rate, this camera comes with ISO settings from 80 to a Mega 3200(HI ISO) to shoot best at low light conditions. If you are the type that parties a lot during holidays, or everyday - this is the best bet under $200 to shoot low light pictures. The 60 sec Min shutter means this is made for low light conditions in mind, and it serves the purpose very well, beating the other competitors for this specific feature. Runs on AA(2) batteries sporting a large 2.5"LCD and an added advantage of Image Stabilization. [I would call this the party-goers digital camera]

Note: I would never suggest a Sony Product for the fact that it makes use of a proprietary "Memory Stick" for storing data. This sets you back tying you to this Memory Stick in all your digital equipments, meaning you have to use Sony Products only or use different memory cards for each of your equipment. I would not suggest this, you better look for the Equipment that sports a common memory card like the "SD Memory" or the "Compact Flash". This saves you hundreds of dollars and saves you in certain situations - you can swap memory cards from your mobile to your camera, or MP3 player or PDA.

How To Choose Your Digital Camera? - Tips and Tricks Using Flickr

Don't have the time to research for a new camera? If you are in a hurry here is some cool suggestions for picking a Digital Camera for your vacation - fast! Read the Author's choice of Top 5 Digitals

Choosing a product for the home or a personal equipment used to be a "Showroom Specific" process a few years back. But these days, with the invent of Internet Shopping and Research the flexibility available of the consumer has grown exponentially. Research - true; you have to research well before you select a product, if you are concerned about the value for money you shell out. Coughing out a few dollars on a gadget should do justice to the money spent, else the whole process of buying and enjoyment there after will be in a jeopardy.

Well, now choosing a Digital Camera is quite an important agenda in one's life. Why? - çoz the camera will be your only source of capturing happy moments while you are on a vacation or for an important party/marriage. So choosing a sloppy camera with blotting photo results will not be what you desire. Here are some detailed methods to choose the right camera with the power of Internet, which cannot be compared with a Showroom Shopping. Showroom shopping cannot give you this much power to choose and flexibility.

Digital Cameras are of various types, sizes and features; choosing the one you want is in your hands. You have to decide what you are looking for - Size or Features or Style or Budget or Type or Quality. There are thousands of digital cameras in the market now, with hundreds being introduced in the market every month - thanks to the stiff competition between manufacturers.

Decide what Size factor suits your need first. Some people want a camera to capture precious moments in their life, with a good quality but need something that fits in their pocket. Some like the camera to be a bit bulky so they get a good grip and stability while holding it. Some are hard core professionals that look for the best in the market, and know what they want exactly.

Once you make you mind with the size, you have filtered out some other options, and get to the next important factor - budget. To make life easier, most online shopping carts have a wizard like feature to filter out the unwanted factors, so that you are left with the remaining lot to choose from. Exploit these websites, you do not have to buy online in essence, just use the wizard to make your choice, later compare with your local dealer and decide if to get from the website or not. [I often use this tool from the Popular dpreview.com website]

Now you know how to use an online shopping site to choose your camera, but you need to know the quality of the camera - this cannot be made available in any Showroom as far I know. Only with the realm of the Internet checking the output of a camera in an instant is possible.

Flickr is a photo sharing Web2.0 site, where thousands of digital photographs are uploaded by users to share them with friends, relatives and the world. You can exploit some nifty features of this website to see the quality and output of a certain digital camera that you have filtered on. I will explain how to use them in the following section, read on..

I prefer to use Flickr, for it's nifty applications. After choosing models with the help of the above filtering technique, you should have a few models to choose from. The only decision you have to make now is that of the quality of the pictures that these models can produce. To check the quality, you have to make use of "Camera Finder" feature of Flickr. With the help of this tool one can choose a camera, and see photographs taken with that particular model [thanks to the advent of EXIF data]. This is a wonderful application for choosing the right camera model for your vacation!

Patiently spend a few minutes with this application to see the results from various users of Flickr community for Quality of the photographs, colors, and clarity. Use the process to find pictures for each camera model you have chosen and compare them manually with a vigil eye. You should be conveniently satisfied with a 1 or 2 of camera models now, and it is you who have to make the decision now. Use your common sense and your budget to choose the final model camera. Run the Flickr application once again and see if you like the photographs taken with them, and you like the quality.

Some tips:

1. See the largest possible size to check for Quality.
2. Pictures must be less Grainy.
3. Lesser the Noise level the better for print.
4. See for colors, and check how natural they are.
5. Check all the "Now Showing" options of Flickr, like Portrait Photos, Landscape Photos, Night Photos, Macro Photos - this helps you decide on what level of photos you will shoot often.

There are quite a lot of Form Factors in Digital cameras, here are a few listed for your convenience: Compact, Ultra-Compact, SLR-Like, SLR(professional), Point-and-Shoot and so on. Some popular brands of Camera's available are Nikon, Canon, Kodak, Minolta(Konika), Fuji, Casio, Nokia, Motorola, Sanyo, Sony, agfa, contax, epson, HP, JVC, Kyocera, Leica, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Samsung, Sigma and Toshiba.

Go on pick the right one that suits your style and trend., Happy Hunting.

[You might like to read more about Photography, Storage and perfect combo of devices for the On Road Warrior!]

1. GeoTag Your Photos While You Shoot
2. Archos - Arachnoid of the PMP Arena - "Ditch Your iPhone Dreams"
3. Best Photography Storage Devices For the On Road Warrior!
4. Canon Shelphy CP740 - Canon Hand held

Never Loose Memory of your Photos - Geo Tag Web2.0

Following our Sony GPS post, we have an interesting Web2.0 Site - Locr that allows you to geotag your photos with or without a gadget. More over, you can share your photographs with friends and fmily and stranges as well with the site's capacity to collaborate.

Any photo can be geotagged using two methods (manual or automatic). The geotagging is done on the locr web site or by using free locr PC software, which you can download here: Downloads

Once you tag them, you can see your pictures on their site on a sat map, or a hybrid map (Like Google map or Flickr Location).

Have fun, and you may never loose note of your photographs again. You will never be asked where was this taken?!

You might like to read these related articles:

1. GeoTag Your Photos While You Shoot
2. Archos - Arachnoid of the PMP Arena - "Ditch Your iPhone Dreams"
3. Best Photography Storage Devices For the On Road Warrior!
4. Canon Shelphy CP740 - Canon Hand held
   

GeoTag Your Photos While You Shoot - With This Cool Gadget

Taking pictures can be fun, but tagging them with the limited memory you have is a pain. How about tagging them with precision?, with which latitude and Longitude the picture was taken? - this is made easy with the GPS Tracker equipment for your camera[like the Place This Photo On A Map of Flickr]. Any model with a Date/Time facility would be ready for use with this wonderful little gadget.

It looks cool, much like your "Thumb Drive" it humbly hangs on your bag or trouser loop, and keep track of where ever you go on this earth! I like the design of this device, it is much simple and trendy with no complications at all. I mean it, no complications, just one button and that is it! Hard to believe, here is how it works:

1. Switch it on, wait to receive (GPS) signals. A green LED light flashes once, slowly.
2. No cables, no hassles, dig out your digital camera, and start shooting.
3. It actually works without any connection, so you have to Sync your photos on a daily basis or in short intervals. (I think this is a little mad idea, but for the cheap cost of the GPS unit, I'm OK with it)
4. Once you finish the day's shoot, you can import the pictures to your PC with your favorite software(Google Picasa or Adobe Photoshop or Just Windows XP/Vista).
5. Connect the GPS Device with given USB cable, download the LOG files with the GPS software.
6. An Image Tracker software supplied with the unit makes it easier for you to match your pictures with the recorded data. The verified positioning information is written to the Image Headers.

The Gadget: Sony Style - GPS-CS1 - Digital Camera Digital Photo Mapping Tool (Geo Tag)

Pros: It is cheap, it works without wires.

Cons: It is frustrating that you have to get to work at the end of every photo shoot or the day to sync your pictures and Geotag them!

Runs on batteries that can last for just 10-14 hours(NiMH)

Note: This is no replacement for the Red hen systems, and so do not compare it with the Red Hens. Red hen systems are for the professional and research photographers, and no one would like to through so much dough on them for fun.

Archos - Arachnoid of the PMP Arena - "Ditch Your iPhone Dreams"

Archos - Arachnoid of the PMP Arena?

I bet you will ditch your iPhone Dreams after you read this article!

Archos must be one of the best PMP's in the Arena, that could have come out from a frustrated iPod user? This packs almost all that one can imagine and more than that!

Let's get to the features of Archos wasting no more time. The looks are simple, and yet elegant, well thought of design, neat colors, and thoughtful button positioning. Ergonomically the Archos beats the " Thumb Driven Zen and iPod" - is that only it? Read on..

Built-In Camcorder - Imagine not a Still Camera, but a full fledged Camcorder on your PMP! Yes that is true, you have a high resolution camcorder that can shoot till you burn all the left out memory! Indeed! 30 to 160 Gigs of memory to shoot for a life time!

Plays Videos - Archos can play every known type of Popular Video Files such as WMV, MPEG-4, AAC, Quicktime and JPEG Photos as well. The all new high resolution screen with a 800x480 pixel resolution makes it much of a delight to watch.


Record TV - Hey this is cool, With the optional DVR Station, you can record your Fav TV Show and watch it later while on your car or Bus to work! You can record from a TV, DVD Player, STBox/Cable Box or even a VCR! [yuk, why did they forget a FM Tuner?]

Photo Viewer - Photos look so good on the Archos, more with Music and Transition effects. Yes you can build a Slide Show in a jiff, add music to it, run it straight on the TV using the Optional DVR Station. [Microsoft Photostory will weep blood now?]

Photo Transfer - One can connect a digital camera and transfer photos directly to the Archos. Transfer it, make a slide show, add background music [throw that bulky laptop dude] from your music collection - See it on any TV where ever you are! - [insane right? - but it is true.! Just the kind of gadget I would Love!]

And yeah it plays Music too, did i forget? - Nah. Archos can play your Music from MP3 to WMV - this will be the least feature I would want to mention! [C'mon man, Archos has got so much why would I talk about Just playing Music?]

Sync with Windows Media Player every time you connect to the system and charge the batteries same time. This is hassle free!

Storage - 30GB can store upto 40 movies[QVGA resolution MPEG-4 at 1000 KBPS] or 3,00,000 photographs or 15,000 songs[128 Kbits/s]
Archos comes in 30, 80 and a 160 GB flavor - which is your choice?

Connectivity - WiFi inside Archos can stream Video/Audio/Jpeg content to your WiFi enabled Set Top Box! - Wires - for the lame! Go WiFi and get tangle free! Use [read Exploit] the best technology can offer!

Display - Sports a high resolution 4.3'' touch screen (800x480 pixels)

Internet enabled to surf the Web, share content, and access Web video sites (eg DailyMotion)

Note: Ok - this is supposed to be the best bet for our Digital Photography On The Go Storage/Viewer Combo. But I thought this was too advanced, and would distract the Photographer from Shooting! So I thought to review this in a seperate post.