Hasta La Gadget!

Welcome to Engadget’s Back to School guide! We know that this time of year can be pretty annoying and stressful for everyone, so we’re here to help out with the heartbreaking process of gadget buying for the school-aged crowd. Today, we’re tapping away on our smartphones — and you can head to the Back to School hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back — at the end of the month we’ll be giving away a ton of the gear featured in our guides — and hit up the hub page right here!

Now more than ever, collegiate studies require a wide variety of devices to help you get that prized “A.” The thirst for knowledge you so desperately seek can strike at any time, and you’re not always going to have that desktop or laptop nearby to find the answer to a burning question. Perhaps you just need to hurl birds at pigs for a while to blow off your stress. Whatever the case, you’ll need something to help you study, store (and edit) all of your important term papers, keep you in touch with classmates or family, and everything in-between. What better way to get all of that than with a smartphone? We’ve picked nine respectable candidates that can help you through your upcoming semester — three for each budget level. Oh, and while you’re looking, we’re giving away $3,000 worth of essential back to school gear to 15 lucky readers, and you can be one of them by simply leaving a comment below! So, which phones are most likely to help you get smart? Head past the break to find out.

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The Walkman of yesteryear might be gone, but it lives on in Sony Ericsson’s Walkman smartphones. Check out the latest model.

Originally posted at Android Atlas

This article was written on August 18, 2006 by CyberNet.

If you are at work then you should be working, right? Well, maybe not all of the time. Say you want to take a quick break and checkout the news, but you are afraid of those wandering eyes that might catch you. What you need is something that is more work friendly…how about WorkFriendly.net!

This is will transform any site into an all-text site and make it look like you have Microsoft Office open. It will also re-code all of your hyperlinks so that they open in the Work Friendly window. What do you do when the boss comes? Simply hover your mouse over the “Boss Key” and the site’s content will be replaced with an article about managing your time and overcoming procrastination!

This is pretty cool and I love how the developer copied the Office design, but wouldn’t you think that Microsoft will go after them for some kind of copyright infringement? It may be interesting to see if Microsoft decides to leave them alone.

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A little over $600 buys budget shoppers a large hard drive, plenty of RAM, and a decent AMD A8 quad-core processor with graphics, but the battery life of the Gateway NV55S05u is a letdown.

Ford of course knows a lot about trucks, and Toyota has a couple decades of hybrid knowledge in its back pocket. So, if you were looking to make a hybrid truck, wouldn’t you want to bring these corporate titans together? Shockingly that’s actually coming to pass, with the two companies announcing a “memorandum of understanding” today that will see them acting as “equal partners” to create a new rear-wheel drive hybrid platform intended for light trucks and SUVs — but sadly not sports cars. That platform is expected to be completed by sometime next year, but the two will also be sharing data to advance infotainment and in-car technology systems, meaning someday your Entune might talk to your Sync and the whole telematics world could be a better place.

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