Tech you loved in 2004

By Pam Carroll on 05 August 2009

One of the most interesting sections to look back on from our early CNET Australia archive is "3 things I can't live without". Pioneering our first concept of user-generated content, readers took the helm and submitted for publication the three tech products they most relied on in their daily lives.

Its tag line "Real people and the gear they love" summed it up. Here are some of the products our readers were passionate about in 2004, and the reasons they thought they were great.

Pardon the grainy photos. Web images five years ago were quite small in size and resolution!

Chris Kembessos

Chris reminds us that Motorola phones were all the rage. He thought his Motorola A920 was leading edge technology, saying "It enables having the usability of a PDA, digital still camera, video camera and a phone in a single device. What makes it unique is the ability to conduct live video calls that can only be done on a 3G network."

(Credit: Chris Kembessos)

Topics: 2004, technology, belkin, motorola, dell, ericsson, navman, apple, benq, ipod, microsoft, sanyo, acer, casio, lg, 5th birthday

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Comments (3)

  • Hjalmar commented on 05/08/2009 12:25 Report abuse

    Forrest, its 2004 becuase that was when cnet was started (5th birthday this year), so this would of been the tech that was popular back then. Personally I find that phones hilarious, and a 3 megpixel camera! hahahaha

  • Pam Carroll commented on 05/08/2009 10:43 Report abuse

    CNET is celebrating its 5th birthday, so we thought it would be fun to look back at the products we were talking about in the early days of our site. Click on the Birthday header to see more retrospectives from all of our major tech categories.

  • forrest commented on 05/08/2009 10:13 Report abuse

    why 2004?

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