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Don't you just hate it when it isn't possible to try out certain (not cheap) things before you buy them and take them home, only to discover that they are unusable once you get there? Cell phones for instance. You seldom see any usability reviews of them, yet usability (as far as I am concerned anyway) is one of my prime reasons for liking or disliking a phone. I have long suffered with hi-fi's, and of course, we all know that video recorders are the worst. I'm a long-term user of PDAs, and consequently I've been through several models…

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