Samsung’s Q1 is available on Expansys.Com for £800, which is about $1400. That is a high price, much more than most people will want to pay for a UMPC. Engadget, that $999 price for the TabletKiosk eo doesn’t look too bad now, does it? via Stuff
James Kendrick has just posted a demo video of Office 2007 where he focuses on the Tablet PC features . I’ve been using Office 2007 for some time now and I’d highly encourage you to check out his video. Office 2007 has been given a total facelift over the previous version, and no doubt you’ve seen pictures and videos [...]
Josh Einstein has officially announced the availability of TEO 3.0 Beta 1. Download information and release notes are here. Support forums can be found here. Josh had this to say on his blog: No April Fool’s joke here. TEO 3.0 Beta 1 is finally available. This is a very limited time beta. Another build will be [...]
– Rob Bushway Are you looking for a light-weight, ink-enabled calendar application? Then you might want to checkout this InkShow. Tablet Calendar is the perfect solution for those who don’t need the full functionality of Outlook, but are still looking for a way to manage their calendar in digital ink. The current version of the application could [...]
I’ve been pretty vocal in the past about PC Magazines consistent lack of tablet pc coverage, so I was quite pleased to see PC Magazine’s Michael J. Miller write about Toshiba’s M400 Tablet PC on his blog today. Overall, he gives the M400 a good thumbs up, although he still prefers Lenovo’s X41. For the past [...]
The Seattle Times met up with Otto Berkes at Seattle’s Espresso Vivace Roasteria and grabbed some good shots of him using the Samsung UMPC watching TV over the Slingbox app. Not much there from an article standpoint, but the pictures are really good.
Josh Einstein is telling us that he’s got a surprise coming for us all on Friday ..could it be the TEO 3.0 public beta? ;-) Check back on Friday ..
– Rob Bushway There is not a Tablet PC user alive who doesn’t come into contact with a PDF document at least once a week. Often times, we will get a PDF that needs to be signed and returned to the requester. How that gets done used to be a major source of frustration among Tablet PC users until [...]
Eric Mack has just posted that an OEM has been in contact with him about evaluating one of their new Ultra-Wide screen tablet pcs. He is not at liberty to discuss who the OEM is at this point, but it is not Toshiba. I would also guess that Gateway is not the OEM either because [...]
Omar Shahine has just released a new powertoy for OneNote: Send RSS to OneNote. This looks to be another one of those ““must-have†powertoys that help keep data in OneNote. Well done, Omar. I don’t think the powertoy works with OneNote 2007. This is a cool little application. Basically you can launch it, enter an [...]
Daryl Burling has written on an excellent article on why he believes the UMPC will be successful. He touches on many of the same points I covered in my post, but goes into much more depth. He also gives some honest appraisals on issues that will give the UMPC some bumps along the road. So [...]
- Rob Bushway Dr. Neil Roodyn, a Tablet PC MVP from Australia, is in Redmond this week and will be doing a webcast today at 11:00 am (PT) on a topic dear to all of us: synchronization Centralizing Data Synchronization The new Sync Center in Windows Vista will become the hub for all data synchronization between the [...]
Looks like Toshiba is not entering the UMPC as previously speculated by us, Hugo, and others who read the article. Matt Codington, Toshiba’s Product Manager, who was interviewed for the APC Mag article had this to say as a comment on Hugo’s blog: You’ll know that Toshiba has a very strong partnership with Microsoft and [...]
Eric Mack has posted a fascinating article on how he was able to achieve 14 hours on battery using his Tablet PC at a conference. Do you think I could get my hands on one of those, Eric?
I couldn’t pass up posting about the Richard Morton’s OrigamiCar software project. I was just talking to my wife, Kathi, about how cool it would be to have a nice touch enabled media app in the car. We’ve tried the LS800 and other tablet pcs, but it requires the pen, which is too much to hassle [...]
Thanks to Mark Payton and his post on www.TabletPCBuzz.com, we now know of HP’s TC4400 Tablet PC. It looks like they are finally getting in to the Core Duo Tablet PC game. The product demo page contains some really good close up product images, very little spec info except for mentioning Core Duo, and nothing else looks to have [...]
As most of you may know, the UMPC comes bundled with a new game via the Touch Pack: Sudoku. Well, thanks to Microsoft and Steven Toub, it is now available for us all to enjoy on our Tablet PC. Microsoft is making the Sudoko application and sample source code available in order to provide some [...]
Tim Marman ( via CoreDuoNews) points us to more news of the Thinkpad X60 Tablet PC – this time it is showing up for sale on Graphiland.fr, a French hardware / software site. They show it being available on April 6. If this is true, I’d upgrade to the X60 in a heartbeat. Specs ( [...]
Kevin Tofel has been pursuing the rotation issue on the Samsung Q1, and an eagle eye reader found evidence that it does in fact support rotation. As I’ve mentioned before, rotation on the UMPC is inherently supported since it has Tablet PC functionality built-in, but the ability to do it is dependent on the video card that [...]
– I tell you, sometimes this techno stuff just gets to be unbelievable. I mean, are there some sick people out there or what? I picked this tidbit up off of Engadget, I see things sometimes and say, “Why in the world would someone pay money for that thing?”. This is an example of one [...]
– There are so many great useage scenarios for Tablet PC’s that have yet to be explored. I have seen over on TabletPCBuzz.com a few small plane pilots talking about how effective their tablet has been for them in their flight planning and monitoring tasks, but this is the first time I have seen a [...]
TabletKiosk has officially announced the EO UMPC, prices starting at $899, available for ordering now, shipping last week in April. I love the name – and the price and specs look really impressive , too. That white one with extended battery support has my name written all over it. TabletKioskâ„¢, a leader in Tablet [...]
Mark Gibbs, NetworkWorld, has done a nice little writeup on the OQO. If you are considering the OQO or something similar, you might want to take a look. The OQO is an outstanding piece of engineering but is a pricey $2,000 considering its performance and the fact that its physical user interface doesn’t live up [...]
I upgraded the ram on the LS800 this past Friday. In between the two hours it took me, I also called John Hill of Allegiance Technology Partners and asked him to help me figure out how get the back off without cracking it. I don’t recommend that you do this upgrade. It is not meant [...]
I’ve noticed a growing trend in forum and blog posts since the UMPC / Origami was announced – the number of people who have said: I’d get one because I just don’t take my Tablet PC with me to the places I really need it – which really means “ I don’t take it to the [...]
Lora and Loren have posted a video of the Founder UMPC over at UMPCBuzz.com The Founder MiniNote Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) was used in the Car & Driver Magazine WPF demo, so it received quite a bit of attention once it was brought into The Sandbox. It is the thinnest and lightest UMPC that we’ve [...]
I’ve inquired in the past about how our readers are using their tablet pcs in the day to day of work -moving from client to client, inking in meetings, being deskbound, etc. Since we are at the weekend when most of us are not working, I’m curious as to how you use the tablet when [...]
Lora has posted a video of her niece using the TabletKiosk UMPC. It is very interesting to see her interact with this device. Notice how she uses the word ““origami†and “small tablet pc” to describe it Mix06 has ended and I’ve returned home to Prescott. My 12-year old niece latched on to the black [...]
More news on the Toshiba front: I’ve been checking the Toshiba site daily to see if they’ve added the SXGA option back to the M400 Tablet PC, and what do you know it is now available! ( click on the Customize option ) If you’ve been waiting for the SXGA option to appear before placing your [...]
Rob Bushway I did a little bit of checking on Hugo’s Toshiba UMPC article where he talks about an upcoming article in www.apcmag.com regarding a Toshiba UMPC. I checked with a source of mine at Toshiba and he had this to say: Sorry, but my inquiries with product planning are coming up blank. Nobody knows what [...]
The biggest struggle I’ve had with slates is the keyboard. I’ve tried the ThinkOutside Bluetooth keyboards, but they are just too small, have no dedicated number keys, not a good solution for typing in bed, and tip back and forth when you type on them. As much I like my X41 Tablet PC, I have [...]
Skura Corporation has announced the availability of a tablet pc application targeted at the pharmaceutical sales industry: SFX Viewer. Here is a snippet from their product page, and a link to their press release. This appears to be a product that integrates into Siebel. SFX Viewer is a tool that allows your sales force to [...]
If you follow Warner Crocker’s blog at all, you know that he is one creative guy. When he is not blogging about Tablet PCs, he is operating as the Theatre Director for the Wayside Theatre in Middletown, Va. Warner has written a great article on how he uses the Tablet PC as a staging tool. [...]
Lora from www.WhatIsNew.com has posted some photos from the Mix06 conference where 4 UMPC devices were available on the conference floor and were getting actively demoed by Bill Gates and Joe Bellini. Yesterday, Bill Gates showed the Mix06 audience the Samsung Ultra-Mobile PC. In today’s keynote, Joe used a Founder UMPC to show the [...]
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