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$550 T-MOBILE POCKET PC PHONE If you care about looking cool and staying connected, buy now. This is gadget-of-the-year material. By adopting the GPRS high-speed data service, the T-Mobile Pocket PC can offer its HTML browser and instant messaging. There's also Pocket Word, Excel and Outlook, plus Windows Media Player for MP3s and video files. www.t-mobile.com
skimp
$1 DISNEY GANG 9-0Z. CUPS Make your own walkie-talkie. The question is: If string is required, is it still wireless? www.1800partyshop.com
splurge
$60 MOTOROLA DISNEY TWO-WAY RADIOS Too cute for anyone over 8, these radios transmit short Disney-voiced phrases. As usual, Donald's expressions rule. www.motorola.com
PDAS
INEXPENSIVE
$150 HANDSPRING VISOR NEO A perennial in our buyer's guide, Handspring still builds the best all-purpose PDA. Integrated USB allows for fast data transfers on Macs and Windows PCs, and the 8 MB of storage puts the Neo in league with far costlier devices. For a dash of fun, the Neo comes in three translucent hues: red, blue and smoke. www.handspring.com
MODERATE
$350 TOSHIBA E335 Pocket PCs used to suffer from being more expensive than Palms, but now the tide is turning. Palms are becoming pricier, and the cost of feature-rich Pocket PCs is dropping. Toshiba's newest offers an active-matrix color screen, a 300MHz processor, 64 megs of RAM and one USB port. Sound a lot like your last laptop? www.csd.toshiba.com
EXPENSIVE
$600 SONY NX70V CLIE The new Palm-powered Clie is a giant step forward for Sony. The NX70V sports an MP3 player, a QWERTY keyboard and a camera that shoots still JPEGs or MPEG-4 video. The hard-core gadget geeks will want to go for the optional Wi-Fi wireless network card ($150) and plug in a 128-MB Memory Stick ($90) for music and videos. www.sonystyle.com