Comments on: The Blogging Gear of CES

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:59:09 +0000

Nice observation. Kevin snapped the picture with his dSLR.

By: Dale Dietrich

Dale Dietrich — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:48:47 +0000

So with the Panasonic camera and the iPhone on the macbook, what did you take that picture with?

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:53:16 +0000

Greg, Almost all phones can send a business card over bluetooth, including WinMo, Palm, Symbian and most non-smart phones with bluetooth. Not sure about an iphone as ive never tried it with an iphone but I bet they can.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:39:38 +0000

Greg, given the amount of handshaking and gadget fondling plus the fact that a large percentage of people arrived sick (including me), dry hands from Purell is a reasonable concession if it holds the CES flu at bay.

henderpa, Awesome – thanks for digging that up! Man, it’s amazing how much crap I borrow from Tofel. That extended battery in 2007 came from him as well. I probably had a link to him, but I recall the former Netgear webmaster removed most if not all of my outbound links. Guess he didn’t get what a ‘blog’ was.

By: henderpa

henderpa — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:24:28 +0000

Dave, here’s the Google cached link from Netgear’s Denmark page:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:vxRPV37WlqMJ:dk.netgear.com/Community/Blog/20070110_zatz7.aspx+%22Blogging+CES:+Tools+of+the+Trade%22+%2Bzatz&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a

It’s hard to believe they’d delete anything written by the “King of CES”!

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:03:54 +0000

Purel dries out my skin, which is awful in a desert environment like Vegas.

As for business cards, why are we still using them? So that we can retype the info afterwards? Why can’t we get a better way to exchange contact details? I used to love when a Palm could beam your contact data to someone else. We need something like that again.

By: Cassidy Napoli

Cassidy Napoli — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:23:13 +0000

I only replaced my 6700 3 months ago and you’ve gone through how many phones since CES 2007? The _only_ thing I really miss off the 6700 is the flash led. I used a hack to turn it on or off flashlight-style. The iPhone flashlight apps are not an equivalent replacement. The tethering capability was nice, but I never really had to rely on it in all that time as I really don’t travel much.

Things I DO NOT miss about the 6700: weight, size, shape, WinMo, and the very lousy battery cover.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:54:20 +0000

I’m somewhat bummed… Looks like Netgear killed their blog. Which is where I wrote up a similar post on how I covered CES 2007. Back then, I tethered a Sprint 6700 to a 14″ Dell for Internet connectivity.