EE Times and research company Portelligent, which produces teardown reports on wireless, mobile and personal electronics, have been exploring the issue by examining the inner workings of certain products. Most of them are brand new; some are still only in limited release. Presented here is a roster of our work. We invite the infinitely curious to examine the evidence. We invite the infinitely foolhardy to predict the market success of these products based on their technological underpinnings.

Building on solid success with the original iPod, Apple Computer Inc.'s latest MP3 player upgrades form, connectivity and capacity but remains focused in function.
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Toshiba's CDMA 2000-1x phone, launched last October under KDDI's Au wireless service, bristles with features and illustrates mobile capability and component content that literally go beyond the call.
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Panasonic's latest video recorder underscores the idea that sometimes you just can't have enough storage.
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Staying in touch is easier than ever. Uniden's General Mobile Radio Service and Family Radio Service handheld radio show how it's also cheaper than ever, thanks to standard components, made-in-China economies and some meting out of free-or nearly free-spectrum.
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Every once in a while, products come along to make you rethink your perspectives in design. The Sony Ericsson SO505i is one of six personal digital cellular camera phones launched by NTT Docomo under the 505i series banner, with clear intent to break some rules and tilt the functional emphasis in a new direction.
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The Fossil Dick Tracy FX-3002 is one of the first Spot wireless data watches from a multivendor family of watch designs, all of which supply customized information such as stock quotes, sports, weather and news that is broadcast on FM subcarrier frequencies and linked to MSN Direct.
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Hewlett-Packard's iPAQ 1945 color PDA highlights collapsing digital IC content in pocket organizers. And in a twist from other Microsoft Pocket PC 2003 devices, it opts for a Samsung processor instead of the Intel Xscale.
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The N-Gage is Nokia's first effort to merge mobile communications with gaming, and internals of the design highlight the company's platform strategy and component reuse over a range of end-product models.
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The Panasonic LK-RS300U provides an early glimpse of free-form image scanning, pointing toward the notion of electronic Silly Putty able to lift an image with the pass of a wand.
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A full-featured PDA it is not, but the Protege Organizer may telegraph future PDA construction while demonstrating that many of its key features can be implemented for a song.
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