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10 Ways to Replace Overhyped Gizmos

Tech experts list top overrated, underrated products

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(Newser) – You can replace your most over-hyped devices with the tech world's top 10 wallflowers, compiled by PC World. Start with the iPhone:

  1. Stop stubbing your fingers on Apple's impractical keyboard interface. Sidekick offers the best QWERTY around.
  2. Nintendo Wii is hard to find and offers few good games. Sony PlayStation Portable packs new titles with Skype, online radio, and uploadable movies.

  1. The ceiling on mini-notebooks is text and email. Lenovo's X61 ultra-portable laptop handles all of your computing needs for $1,000.
  2. iTunes overcharges for music "that's locked down in DRM hell." Try affordable streaming services like Slacker and Pandora instead.
  3. If you're on Facebook, wasting time with empty applications and games, try controlling your social life with Multiply.com's smart feeds.
Learn more about technology's ugly ducklings by clicking the link below.

The Apple iPhone 3G's touch-screen interface is overrated.
The Apple iPhone 3G's touch-screen interface is overrated.   (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
President and CEO of Nintendo Co. Ltd., speaks at a news conference where Nintendo unveiled an enhancement for its Wii Remote controller and new games at the E3 Media and Business Summit.
President and CEO of Nintendo Co. Ltd., speaks at a news conference where Nintendo unveiled an enhancement for its Wii Remote controller and new games at the E3 Media and Business Summit.   (AP Photo/Ric Francis)
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan President Shawn Layden shows a PSP-3000, the revamped Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable handheld video game machine.
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan President Shawn Layden shows a PSP-3000, the revamped Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable handheld video game machine.   (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
The SideKick text-messaging and cell-phone device from Danger has become a popular method of communicating for those with limited or no hearing.
The SideKick text-messaging and cell-phone device from Danger has become a popular method of communicating for those with limited or no hearing.   (KRT Photos)
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