Gadgetory

about two weeks to go until black friday and already the tech blogs are buzzing about what will be this holiday season's hottest gadgets joining us to break down this year's tech winners and losers is jon rettinger editor-in-chief it TechnoBuffalo calm and Andrew said at all he is editor at Geico system.com to both of you thanks for your time John who are your top winners the top three winners are definitely going to be the Apple iPad the tablet that started the tablet craze number two would be the new motion controlling system launched by Microsoft called the Kinect where your body actually becomes a controller and third is a new smartphone coming out for verizon wireless called the droid pro on the three losers that are really set to fizzle out this holiday season number one would be the Nintendo Wii it's a one-trick pony of emotion controlling system has really been caught up by Microsoft and Sony its chief competitions number two is the 3d TV phrase consumers are realizing the costs aren't worth the benefits and number three is the palm pre 2 it's got a fantastic operating system called webOS but is not being served properly by very last generation hardware Andrew I see that you've got one of those names on your list as well but ironically you've got Microsoft's Kinect not on your winners list but on your losers list what are you seeing this perhaps different from John that's right i mean i see i think that the kinect is going to be a very very big deal the problem is it's being put up by Microsoft it's a major play in the Xbox market it may not be a big enough deal to justify itself now the Kinect has two ways to win it can either become a wii killer it can be the sort of thing where you no grandmas who play wii bowling love to buy it or it can sort of bring in the more hardcore gamer market that play you know first-person shooters and action games it's pretty clear that the bet has been placed on casual games we'll see if it's getting if it gets it's been getting very very good reviews I'm just not convinced those reviews are good enough to make it a week killer but I'd love to hear what John has to say yeah what do you think John absolutely and I don't think that it has Sara Lee kill anything Microsoft's 500 million dollar market push is going to be more than enough to pique curiosity other people to go ahead and pick this up not to mention the Xbox is very wide user base it's got a commitment from all the major third party developers as well as Microsoft's own in-house studios it is going to be targeted primarily initially at the casual gamers I think the hardcore market there will be some quick adoption once there's a game to match the hardware Andrew who are on your winners list I'd say that the the big surprise for the holiday season is likely to be the quantum which is LG's entry into the handset market LG's obviously spent a lot of time thinking about you know what people use their cell phones for how to make it easier videos photos putting them directly into a set-top box or a computer on the other end of the spectrum for wireless handsets Samsung continuum is pretty likely to be a loser it seems like you know and the Android platform is a very good tool box for the handset manufacturers it seems like Samsung hasn't yet figured out exactly how to use that in fact the continuum has a dedicated ticker screen which would be appropriate for you know a pager being made by research in motion in 1998 it's not very appropriate for a consumer handset being made in 2010 okay John and Andrew thank you very much for Bernie those to us coming up next on the show