Oct 9th Newsletter

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VGAPocketPC.com launched

Welcome to the ShinyPlastic.com newsletter.

The big news this week is the launch of our new site VGAPocketPC.com where we focus on everything to do with VGA Resolution Pocket PCs.

If you haven't seen VGAPocketPC.com yet make sure you go there and check out the side by side comparison of all VGA Pocket PCs.

VGAPocketPC got off to a great start with over 25,000 visitors in it's first week.

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This week's reviews

We posted 3 new reviews since the last newsletter:

The Pioneer DVR-108 16x DVD Writer
The Matias iPod Armor Mini Case
The Altec Lansing inMotion Speakers

These are all great gadgets that we now use daily. Check out the review links on the top left of our homepage.

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Recent new gadgets

Lots of interesting gadgets released recently, including a bunch of cameras and accessories at the Photokina trade show in Germany.

Some recent highlights include:

Ezmax EZMP-4100 2GB Flash MP3 Player
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA Soundcard
iPAQ hx2000 Series Specs
Toshiba Qosmio 17" Widescreen Laptops
NHJ VHD-5500 5GB MP3 Player
Sharp Aquos 65 Inch LCD TV

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At the TechXNY show

We attended the TechXNY show in New York last week.

The show was a bit smaller than expected but we found a couple of interesting things such as:

Belkin Pre-N 802.11n Wireless Networking Gear
Pepper Pad 2 Linux Tablet PC

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Competitions

Congratulations to the winners of the 6 Gmail accounts, Audia-X FM Transmitter, Fossil Wrist Net Smartwatch, and Ultra Products Cables. All winners have been contacted and sent their prizes.

Don't despair if you didn't win this time; we have more gadgets to give away. We are going to give away another 6 Gmail accounts, a 512MB CompactFlash Card, and a Dell Axim X3/X30 Metal Case on October 31st.

What do you have to do to enter?, absolutely nothing..... every subscriber to this newsletter is automatically entered into the draw.

If your friends want to win all they have to do is sign up for the newsletter.

ShinyPlastic and VGAPocketPC Newsletter Signup

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What's coming next from ShinyPlastic?

Over the next two weeks we are going to be really busy:

We will be attending the DigitalLife and PhotoPlus trade shows along with some fun Press only parties where cool new gadgets will be previewed.... of course we will have our camera and will tell you all about it.

We will keep adding to VGAPocketPC as well as working on some other sites we are currently building. Coming next on VGAPocketPC is a newbies guide to choosing the perfect VGA Pocket PC.

We also have lots more gadgets we are in the process of reviewing including the radioSHARK FM Radio tuner/recorder, the Buffalo Linkstation Wireless Hard Drive, Shure E3c Earphones, The Canon 20D SLR Digital Camera, and an Audia-X Power Supply.

Finally we have a couple of other articles planned: a comparison of a range of high speed compactflash cards that tells you when you need a high speed card and when a basic one is good enough, and some pointers on how to take better photos of your gadgets (for sites like this, selling on ebay etc).