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Digital Life #20: Chat-enabled MP3 players?

By Ty Pendlebury on 14 August 2008

Tags: beijing2008 | digital life | gps | iphone | ipod | netbook | podcast | tips | tivo | travel


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Welcome back! In the latest Digital Life we conduct our first TECHNOLOGY DEATHMA-A-A-A-ATCH!!!! with the combatants being Creative's new Zen X-Fi and the current champ, the Apple iPod Touch. Who wins?

Add some advice on taking holiday snaps, whether you can use the iPhone for ... anything at all, and our tips on the latest GPS features and you have yourself an Olympian-sized podcast.

Behind the mics are CNET.com.au's Ty Pendlebury and Joseph Hanlon, and SEA FM's Cam St.Clair. This week's special guest is Derek "Pity the..." Fung who talks up the newest GPS units.

Each episode we bring you a bunch of chatter on the latest news, cool products and burning issues in the gadget world. The show goes out on radio from 10pm Wednesdays, or 8pm for the WA dwellers. To see if there's a station near you, visit TheRadio.com.au. You can also listen online from 10pm via the Sea FM Web site.

The podcast can be streamed or downloaded below. Listen to our previous episodes and subscribe via iTunes or RSS on our Digital Life podcast page.

Check out the links below for more info on what we talked about.

Digital Life's inaugural Technology Deathmatch! -- iPod Touch Vs Creative X-Fi
Creative Zen X-Fi 16GB
iPod Touch

Which new GPS should I buy?
Best portable in-car GPS navigators

Netbooks and the people who use them (tiny hands, smell like cabbage)
Tiny laptops, tiny price

Snap snap grin grin say no more
10 travel photography tips

Can I transfer files to my iPhoneeee?
Ask Us: iPhone

Tivo and the magical world of recording the Olympics in HD
TiVo HD
2008 Olympics tech guide

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