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September 6, 2007
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The Hunt for Gotta-Have-It Gadgets
By PETER WAYNER

JON WESTFALL remembers well the time he wired $1,000 to a man in Dubai whom he had never met. His contact had an iMate, a small hybrid of a cellphone and a P.D.A., that was not available in the United States.

“He told me, ‘There’s no reason for you to trust me, but if you really want one, Western Union me $1,000 and I’ll send you one.’ ” Mr. Westfall, a contributing editor for PocketPCTHoughts.com who lives in Marblehead, Ohio, had to have one. “It was the first model they ever released. This one was just the Cadillac of PocketPCs,” he said. “I don’t know what I was thinking, but about three or four weeks later he was able to get me one because they were pretty scarce, even over there.”

Anyone who has ever wanted the smallest, quickest, slickest or simply the newest gadget knows the feeling. The solution had been to search the world, wade into the riskiest online bazaars, grapple with manuals written in foreign languages, and live with the lack of manufacturer’s support.

This is still true today, but the first adopters willing to pay a premium for the exotic notebook computers, cellphones and tech toys can turn to any number of businesses that specialize in finding objects that are not sold in the big-box store near their home. More

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