The Best of CES/Macworld 2009

Gizmodo has concluded the CES 2009 round up of the best CES/2009 product shown. Among the best products Gizmodo picks, I like the followings:

17-inch MacBook Pro: It got its expected Unibody makeover, complete with a long-lasting and non-removeable battery; here’s how it works.
Palm Pre
Samsung BD-4600 Blu-ray Player: Wall-mountable, networked, 1.5-inches thick, and really, really nice looking.
Sony Vaio P: Sony’s Vaio P is something we haven’t seen before: a 2.08:1 aspect ratio (1600×768) on a 1-inch thick portable. Something different in the very, very generic netbook field.
Casio 1,000fps Point and Shoot Cameras: Both the EX-FC100 and the EX-FS10 bring the EX-F1’s slo-mo capture goodness to a point and shoot. Casio’s still the only folks in the super slo-mo field, and they’re continuing to kill.
A super-slim wi-fi-equipped Cyber-shot G3 that’s the world’s first to surf the web.
Dell Mini 10: A 720p screen and a TV tuner is a nice bump for one of our favorite netbook series.

Connecting to Internet via TV

Connect to your internet just by turning on your TV.

SAUL HANSELL of the NYT has this report:

New televisions from LG, Samsung and others will let viewers watch movies from Netflix and other Internet sites.

In two years, 90 percent of all Sony products will connect to the Internet, Howard Stringer, the chief executive of Sony, predicted.

These developments can be seen as more of the electronics industry’s constant quest for something new to tantalize gadget lovers.

Palm Pre: The CES 2009’s Hottest Gadget

Lance Ulanoff of PC Mag thinks that the Palm Pre is the hottest product of CES 2009

The Palm Pre A touchscreen phone with a full QWERTY keyboard.

First of all, the specs are impressive: a large multi-touch screen, powerful processor, accelerometer, hidden QWERTY keyboard, multitasking, GPS, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, and 3.2 megapixel camera… it offers real innovation. From a new app and tasks management metaphor known as “Cards” to the gesture area, this is a smart phone that’s breaking new ground.

Pre will give me what the iPhone and Bold (the former leader in my smartphone lust affections) can not: a full-sized touch screen and a QWERTY keyboard. The combination of touch screen and QWERTY keyboard is one of the reasons I fell in love with my Treo 700p. That thing is old, dust filled and hoary now, but once it was my beloved.

Like my old Treo, the Pre will be exclusive – at least initially – on the Sprint platform early in 2009. (There is no pricing info yet). For some, this is a downer, but Sprint has become a much better and more reliable service over the years and I have no complaints about the EVDO Rev A 3G service.

Palm Pre Smartphone