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...book what the iPod did for music: that is, usher it, skipping gaily, into the paradise of portable digital consumption. The Reader is a sleek, soigné little object--you can almost sense it trying to look literary, as though it should come with a decanter of sherry as a USB peripheral. Although it's slightly smaller and thinner than a trade paperback, one Sony Reader can hold about 80 average-length novels...
...similar as they are in movie playback, the two platforms are very different in other areas. The PS3 thinks locally - it handles content best when it's on its hard drive, or on a disc in its drive, or on a memory card or USB keychain that's plugged in directly. The Xbox 360 is all about the network...
...sales have been miniscule. But now that Sony's Blu-ray is appearing in Sony's eagerly anticipated PS3, Microsoft's HD DVD format is appearing in, you guessed it, Microsoft's Xbox 360. Okay, not "in" the Xbox-an accessory drive that connects to the console via USB has just gone on sale for $200. That brings the total for Microsoft's premium high-def-movie playing system to $600, the same price as the premium...
...tracks but the ones you bought on iTunes. If you happen to have a Zune, you may plug that into the Xbox 360 as well. It won't shock you to hear that when I plugged the iPod and the Zune into one of the PS3's many USB ports, nothing happened. Of course, the PS3 does support music served up from the PlayStation Portable, if that's where you keep your tunes...
...often hard to keep track of what exactly constitutes a phone these days. Never mind that the shapes and functions of cell phones change monthly, or that it?s now okay in certain cases to call a USB keychain a ?phone.? There are now devices that connect to Wi-Fi networks to provide low-cost, Skype Internet phone service. They?re not portable like cell phones, since you need to be in a Wi-Fi network to use them, but they can be handy at home (that is, a home with a broadband connection and a Wi-Fi router...