tied between OQO 02/e2 showing off full mobilty w/Windows Vista PC and Apple iPhone showing potential of touch screen

The price of the Latitude XT. You didn't mean wow in a positive way did you?

positive or negative - however way you interpret it....

Onenote 2007 + third party add ons

The OQO - it actually elicits the word "wow" from people.

As the owner of an OQO 02 with SSD and EVDO, it has the ability to stun people when they first see it. For all it faults (it's a bit too heavy, a bit too thick, a bit too slow, and its battery is a bit too limited) people not familiar with the OQO cannot believe that I'm carrying around a complete PC in my pocket.

First runner up would be the iPhone interface. Not the phone, which is a disappointment, but the interface. It is definitely cool, but a bit less wow.

Dave

I would say the biggest "wow" has been the droves of primarily Windows users (myself included) who have welcomed Macs into their lives this year. I thought this was going to be the year in which Linux would make that scale of a presence, and it has done pretty well, but Ubuntu is not nearly as ubiquitous as Macbooks/pros have become in the general mobile tech-scape.

Honestly, I don't think that 2007 had any real "Wow's," used in a positive sense.

In a year that promised real forward motion in the mobility and tablet spheres, very little happened. No LE1700WT. No multi-touch (I mean multiple touch screens, not pen and touch). No fuel cells (of course, that comment applies EVERY year!). Disappointing Vista performance and quirks. Sluggish introduction of SSD's (that still aren't quite big enough to be seriously considered). Many convertible laptop introductions (no, they're not really tablets). Only one... ONLY ONE slate introduction of any consequence. And it was really late.

Some year.

OK. Rant over. With my "Think Positive" hat on, I nominate the TabletKiosk Sahara i440D dual touch slate, a well-designed slate with a good touch & pen interface. Nicely done, TK!

PS: What the hell's wrong with the time server...?

I'd have to say the iPhone / Asus eee combo for bringing the idea of smaller computing to the masses. For all their faults.

The tablet pc.

Lenovo's inabililty to get past it's supply/delivery chain problems, and then it's bad pivot escutcheon/hinge problem. For a company that inherited a solid reputation, they're trying real hard to wreck it. Wow.

HP's inclusion of a camera with the 2710p, the slice extended battery and the mobile dock, all working together and still mobile! Wow, it's almost inovation.

What Guthrie said! EEE for its price, and iPhone/iPod Touch for showing other mobile browser designers how its done.

Hands down OQO 02

iPhone again. First time using a touch interface felt right.

The biggest Wow to me is the recent pricing of the Dell Tablet. In this case, it's a "Wow, what are they thinking?"

There are hardware WOWS, there are software WOWS, there are industry WOWS, but this was a year with very few (if any) true WOWS. That being said, my WOW for 2007 is the HTC Advantage x7501. It is incredibly versatile and does many things very well. It can truely replace several individual devices/gadgets.

Biggest wow?.... easy.... my discovery of the gottabemobile.com web site.... how did I overlook this site? It has been a great resource. Thanks GBM team! - Tom

yes, boring - but iPhone

@bob:No HTC advantage for me. Who wants a spinning HDD inside a PPC? 8GB Flash drive(or bigger) should have been there instead of it for its price.

Anyway, to the topic, the biggest wow for me was Fujitsu U1010/U810. Finally, something I always wanted to own

WOW

For me it is the final product presentation from an organization that struggled to share technology and to reduce the technology gap in developing and poor countries. Sharing and presenting technology that is easy, fun and relatively inexpensive, the biggest WOW goes to OLPC.

Mr. Negroponte, my best regards for you.

Lots of great things mentioned here, but I have to go with the iPhone/iPod Touch interface - it's truly WOW!

I want to add my Thousand Sketches project. http://www.thousandsketches.com Not software, not hardware but a Tablet put to use. I did a thousand in one year and the prints are on sale in a Chelsea N.Y. Art Gallery. Art can drive the market for the tablet. More Art wows will do it.