Hottest Handheld Gadgets

Caption: Basically your life in your pocket. Already a classic, the BlackBerry Curve 8320 weighs just 3.9 ounces and is equipped with a full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, a 2-megapixel flash camera with 5X digital zoom, e-mail, IM, and the ability to watch videos and listen to music via stereo Bluetooth wireless headphones.

Caption: There’s no need to say “cheese” when it comes to the latest in Canon’s wildly popular PowerShot series. Its features alone are more than enough to make us grin. With 8 megapixels, a 3X optical image–stabilized zoom, face detection, and a 2.5-inch PureColor LCD II monitor, every day is picture-perfect.

Caption: With e-mail, maps, weather, and Wi-Fi Internet capabilities, this iPod makes the others feel like our old Walkman. While its killer audio-video storage is just one piece of the multimedia pie in this Pod, a whopping 32GB of flash memory translates to up to 40 hours of video, 25,000 photos, or 7,000 songs. We can even watch movies rented from iTunes on its slick 3.5-inch screen.

Caption: Books are heavy. The Kindle weighs 10.3 ounces, holds up to 200 titles, and has a selection of more than 120,000. Buy a book and it’s delivered wirelessly within a minute. Plus, its electronic paper display mimics the look of real paper with sharp high resolution. Feel like lighter reading? Top newspapers, magazines, and blogs are also available.

Caption: You’ll have to resist the urge to get lost simply to utilize this rugged-yet-lightweight GPS system. With an extremely accurate SiRF GPS chip that tracks precise position even beneath heavy foliage cover and in deep canyons, the Garmin 60CSx takes the worry out of getting lost.

Caption: The latest in the N95 series boasts 8GB of memory, which means when you’re not chatting away, snapping away (with its 5.1-megapixel cam), surfing away, or finding your way (with its GPS feature), you can listen to up to 6,000 songs or watch up to 20 hours of video on its 2.8-inch QVCA display.