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Magellan RoadMate Navigation: iPhone Review

The world of personal navigation devices is rapidly changing, and the big players are adding full-featured software applications for devices that don’t bear their names. Magellan is the latest to offer a serious navigation app for the iPhone. It’s not cheap, but it’ll make you shun those clunky nav units. What We Like Rapid auto-fill keypad, Points-of-interests lists are clear and customizable, Uses iPhone contacts, Screen clarity What We Don’t Huge file size, Slow-moving between screens, No traffic reports, Long loading time Price: $79.99 for a limited time

Let’s face it; a lot of us don’t want to spend an additional $2,000 or so to get a navigation system in our new car. Of course others can’t live without that level of integration, but they’re probably not reading this review anyway. Many folks also don’t like device clutter, and adding a separate navigation unit to the cell phone and MP3 player that are most likely in your car’s cupholders might seem like too much to handle

Review: Apple's iPad not just a bigger iPod Touch

After just an hour with an iPad, I came away with a preliminary verdict: Despite some flaws, this is one slick device.

Steve Jobs intrigued me in his slow, showman-like presentation Wednesday when he said the $499-and-up iPad is "so much more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone." The comparison to an iPhone makes sense, given the minimalist silver-and-black style of the iPad.

The first thing I wanted to do when I held it was browse the Web and check out the iPad's on-screen keyboard. My favorite Web sites looked great on its crisp screen, which is 9.7 inches on the diagonal - while the iPhone is just 3.5 inches. When you hold the iPad with the wider side down, in landscape mode, it's nearly big enough for touch typing - an improvement over the way that the iPhone's cramped keyboard sometimes causes errors.

iPad makes debut

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs didn't ascend the stage sporting a robe and full beard to announce the most anticipated tablet since Moses'. But the crowd at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco received the introduction of the iPad with a roar of thunderous applause.

Perhaps the worst-kept secret since, well, the iPhone, the iPad is a 9.7-inch touch-screen computer starting at $499 and available in March. It resembles an oversized iPod touch.

``We want to kick off 2010 by introducing a truly magical and revolutionary new product,'' Jobs said early on to ease the throngs of technology journalists and analysts who knew what was coming.

Review: Palm touches up Pre, Pixi smart phones

Palm tried to reinvent itself with the release of the stylish Pre and Pixi smart phones last year. Now, it's hoping to woo more consumers with updated versions of the handsets, the Pre and Pixi Plus.

Both phones remain sleek and sport Palm's easy-to-use, attractive WebOS software. Both also get a nifty new feature - the ability to act as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot for up to five devices. And both switch from Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless network to the one from Verizon Wireless, which costs smart phone customers more each month but has better coverage.

It's really the Pre that benefits from the changes, though, while the cute-but-annoyingly slow Pixi continues to lag behind.

Home videos donated to film project

Isabel Ramos-Quinones' father shot home movies of family parties -- childhood memories that are now beginning to decay.

But she found out a way to preserve the old film, now tucked away in her closet.

An added bonus: She will be helping document history.