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The future of personal technology is small — literally. You can cram in 1,000 songs, hundreds of phone numbers, tens of thousands of pictures and months of priorities into the fifth pocket of your jeans without fear of product bulge. But size isn't everything. The smallness of gadgets belies their cost, and depending on what you need, bigger might be better.
"We never want to compromise the ease of getting the shot you want (just to make a smaller camera)," says Mary-Irene E. Marek, worldwide marketing manager for V series digital cameras at Eastman Kodak Co.
As products get smaller and more capable, Marek says, options such as the size of the display screen on a digital camera and buttons have to stay user-friendly.
Kodak's newest camera, the EasyShare V530, is smaller than a deck of cards (the DX 350, one of the first EasyShare cameras introduced five years ago, is about twice the size).
Larger Kodak cameras have similar features but are geared toward users with different needs: novice photographers, families on the go and more advanced photographers.
Hannah Campbell, 15, of Hilton, N.Y., recently got a new cell phone with her mother, Joanne Campbell. They were changing service providers and needed to upgrade.
Their Samsung SCH-a850 phones aren't particularly tiny — weighing in at 3.54 ounces — when compared with sleeker counterparts, but Hannah enjoys the new camera phone and text messaging features. She's also got her eye on the new MP3-player phones.
"Kids are going to have much more of a hard time finding things in their backpacks," she says. "I don't want to have to waste time looking for (my phone)."
"The car stereo is a perfect example of one of the things that's the most frustrating to use at least for its function," says Stephen Jacobs, director of the lab for technological literacy at Rochester Institute of Technology.
The inclusion of cassette and CD players in car stereos has forced manufacturers to cram a lot of push-button features into a tiny rectangle of a dashboard.
"I can't afford that on my grad student stipend," says Daniel Miner, 23, who studies at the University of Rochester. He already has an iPod, digital camera and cell phone, but recently spent time ogling the Nano.
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