If you are looking at getting the most out of Outlook 2007, then you might want to take a look at Marc Orchant’s new book, The Unofficial Guide to Outlook 2007. Knowing Marc and his knack for the detail, I’d be surprised if anything was left uncovered. Marc Orchant runs a ZDNet blog called Office [...]
Now that I’ve got Vista working with the new drivers on the Asus R2H, I’ve been using the device for note taking during rehearsals of our next show, Stones in His Pockets, which opens tomorrow night. Things have been going reasonably well, although I’ve hit a few bumps in the road. For some reason, the device is throwing [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine is reporting an interesting development that might just get rid of that charger on your desk. Powercast, along with a number of companies inlcuding Philips are working on a method of allows you to charge a device with electrical current broadcast through the air. According to the article, the way it works [...]
TabletPCReviewSpot.com has posted a review of the Asus R1 Tablet PC by a student, Kayla. As usual the review is illustrated with pictures and benchmarks. Check it out here.
Don’t forget the Mobile PC SmartDraw webcast on Monday, April 2: The Mobile PC team at Microsoft is beginning a series of webcasts geared toward teaching people how to use applications optimized for the Mobile PC / Tablet PC / UMPC. The first webcast will be on SmartDraw, a software application that Dennis also featured [...]
What a great contest on the NOD32 AntiVirus ! We had 48 qualified entries that were received before 11:59 PM MT. Fortunately, we had to choose the winners randomly via a random number generator. If we had to choose them on content, we would be hard pressed to pick a winner because they were all [...]
Carrying on from its LE1700 Tablet PC announcement on Monday, Motion Computing has just announced that Sprint will be the WWAN broadband carrier for the LE1700. From their press release: With the LE1700, Motion is first to integrate in a slate tablet PC mobile broadband capabilities with Sprint Mobile Broadband. Sprint’s advanced Evolution Data Optimized [...]
Josh Einstein is the man. Not only is he the much admired developer of Tablet Enhancements for Outlook, he has now become every OneNote user’s favorite developer. He recently released OneNote Calendar, a handy application that takes your OneNote data and displays it in a calendar format. Your OneNote notes are displayed in the order [...]
I’ve been using NOD32 AntiVirus for the past couple of months on my Tablet PCs, and liked enough that I asked the folks at ESET.com if they could send me some licenses to giveway on GottaBeMobile.com. Lo and behold, 6 boxed copies showed up at my office the other day and we are ready to give them [...]
If you have been around this site much at all you will know our passion for Tablet PC’s, UMPC’s and general mobile devices and accessories. We love the stuff. There is so much to talk about, and we have a prety good and diverse team bringing you that news from a number of perspectives and [...]
Ok, second cajoling from me. You must subscribe to Vikram Madan’s blog. I mentioned it the other day. Vikram is on the UMPC team and is now blogging and as a former commerical artist is self-illustrating his blog. Still not subscribed? Then, take a moment, go to his blog and read: What the #@#%$ is [...]
I’ve been in communication with Motion Computing regarding the LE1700 battery issues I’ve been reporting on. Motion believes that the experiences I’ve been having with battery times are indeed pre-production issues. For example, there were several production-level tuning tweaks / adjustments in the BIOS and operating system that were not implemented in the units I [...]
The Mobile PC team at Microsoft is beginning a series of webcasts geared toward teaching people how to use applications optimized for the Mobile PC / Tablet PC / UMPC. The first webcast will be on SmartDraw, a software application that Dennis also featured in this InkShow. Check out the details below and be sure [...]
We’ve highlighted Dave Wallace, The LifeKludger, on GottaBeMoible.com before (here and here, among other links.) His story always fills me with optimism. Dave is a C4 Quadraplegic who can really turn heads the way he challenges conventional assumptions. Dave is now featured on Microsoft’s On10, as a part of their Geek Stories series. You should [...]
The Toshiba R400 Tablet PC has captured a lot of focus recently as the first Vista Tablet PC out of the chute, its high price, and what many consider questionable performance specs. I’m anxiously awaiting Dennis Rice’s InkShow review of the unit. In the meantime, TabletPCReviewSpot offers up a review of the R400 complete with [...]
That headline is a good question without a single answer. Bob Russell, using the introduction of UMPCs to the market, asks “What is mobile, anway?” He lays out his personal critieria. I’m sure there will be some agreement with his points, and some that are different. Battery life is high on his list. Is it [...]
Welcome to the first in a series of weekly briefs on tablet-pc and UMPC how-to’s designed with the new and novice tablet/UMPC user in mind. Perhaps as we dive deeper into these, we will teach a few old dogs some new tricks as well. Our goal here at GottaBeMobile.com is to help make the tablet-pc [...]
The OQO Model 02 began shipping today for those who ordered it with XP. (It’ll be April for those who want Vista on the tiny device.) In the interm, tnkgrl Mobile has put up a hands on video that gives you a really good look at the size of this device. I couldn’t help thinking [...]
If you’re like me, it is tough to keep from eating when you’re near your computer, especially in busy times. I often eat lunch, and occasionally dinner at my desk, working the entire time. Of course one of the many downsides of this is that what ends up on your fingers ends up as residue on your keyboard [...]
In the category of “Why? Because I Can,” Igor has installed Apple’s OSX on his Asus R2H Ultra-Mobile PC. He’s posted a pictures and some details along with a video which is running on OnlyUMPC. Scroll down to the second video on the page after following the link. Check it out here.
Nice development here. Ultra-Mobile PC Team member Vikram Mada has started blogging about UMPCs and mobility. Not only that, Vikram used to be an editorial cartoonist and will be illustrating his blog with his artwork. Cool! I’m subscribed. Check it out here.
There have been some comments in the forum and the news posts that I thought needed addressing with another post. First of all, pressure sensitivity is in both the active digitizer model and the WriteTouch model. The WriteTouch model does use a different digitizer technology (N-Trig), thus a different pen; but pressure sensitivity is there. [...]
As everyone searches for the secret to longer battery life for mobile devices, maybe the answer is a sweet one. According to Dr. Shelley Minteer in a presentation at the American Chemical Society, one answer may lie in sugar as the fuel for the juice. Just about anything with sugar in it, from soft drinks [...]
I’ve been pretty vocal about my disappointment in touchscreen technology as a primary tool for inking. I just do not like it. Every time I try it it feels awkward and limiting to me after all the years of using an active digitzer. I enjoy the touch experience for navigation and object manipulation, but really [...]
Two weeks ago, we launched a contest revolving around mobility and the DocuPen Executive Kit. We asked forum members to submit their answers to the following question: How would a pen based scanner like the DocuPen RC800 Executive Kit impact your mobile lifestyle? We were hoping to receive at least 50 entries, but the 30 entries we did [...]
John Hill and the good folks at Allegiance Technology Partners are having an open house on March 27th from 9am to 4pm. If you’d like to take a look at a lot of the Tablet PC and UMPC hardware we’ve featured in our Inkshows, tomorrow would be a good opportunity. Allegiance Technology Partners is located at 300 Welsh [...]
This patent from XM certainly has interesting implications for touch based Ultra-Mobile PCs and Tablet PCs. Imagine being able to use different fingers for various short-cuts, like a thumb to launch Windows Media Player, the pinky to launch email, etc. Take that a bit further and imagine the UMPC finger experience being custom for each [...]
We’ve been seeing word for awhile about HTC’s newest Windows Mobile device that some have been calling a UMPC and some not. But at the CITA wireless trade show, HTC shifted the terrain quite a bit by introducting the HTC Shift, alongside that device, now christened the HTC Advantag, we’ve all been looking at. The Shift looks [...]
We are very pleased to bring everyone this first look at Motion Computing’s newest Tablet PC, the LE1700, in this special launch day video review. It has been about two years since the release of the LE1600, and many people were wondering if this day would ever come. It has! In many ways, Motion has [...]
With the specs of the Motion Computing LE1700 Tablet PC found on Friday, many have been wondering when the official announcement would come. The wait is no more. Today, Motion Computing has officially announced the LE1700, bringing to the table many firsts for a slate Tablet PC: 1.5 ghz Core 2 Duo, SXGA, integrated broadband, [...]
Josh Einstein, the developer of TEO 3.0, has created a nifty new application for OneNote. The OneNote Calendar gives you a calendar view of all of your notes, allowing you to view them by when they were created or modified. There is a preview pane that allows you to view your notes. More good news. [...]
A while back we reported that there was a new Gateway computer in the works to be released sometime in March. Well, today Engadget has a link to a site showing a new Gateway Tablet PC!! It looks like a nice unit, from the pictures it’s sporting some flavor of Vista (guess most will now [...]
This would certainly be an interesting development. Toshiba appears to be releasing Vista drivers for the Portege M200 Tablet PC. No sight of them on the American site yet, but eagle-eyed GBM Forum member Serge spotted them on the Swedish Swiss support site for Toshiba. Here’s the link for that site.
For those who came from or are still on XP Tablet Edition, you are quite familiar with how painful it is to do a multi-select while using a pen or touch. If you use a slate tablet pc or a UMPC, it is especially difficult because you can’t resort to built-in keyboard. You end up [...]
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Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
As exciting as it has been to talk, postulate, and speculate about the Galaxy S III’s hardware and specs before the third-generation Galaxy flagship smartphone was announced on May 3rd in London, once the device was announced one thing became apparent: Samsung is now a software company. That doesn’t mean that Samsung is shying away [...]
HTC One X Review | $199 AT&T 4G LTE
HTC hopes to regain their King of the Hill status in the realm of Android smartphones with the One series, and the HTC One X is the flagship of the line. Featuring LTE speeds, a robust processor, a great camera plus a really good audio experience, the One X has what it takes to be a fabulous phone.
tiltpod Review: Key Chain Tripod & Stand for the iPhone
The tiltpod offers a nearly perfect key chain tripod and stand for the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, a small point-and-shoot camera or and many other small gadgets. I love the mobility, the price and the functionality of this great little accessory from gomite. Born out of a frustration with bulky pocket tripods, the tiltpod is [...]
Droplr Review: 100GB of Online Storage for $3 a Month
Droplr lets users easy and quickly share files between Mac, Windows and iPhone. The new Droplr Pro accounts supercharge the service with 100GB of storage for just $3 per month. Sadly, Droplr doesn’t offer file sync, so it won’t replace Dropbox, Google Drive or Sugar Sync. Droplr makes several file sharing tasks easier and offers [...]
Lusso Cartella Luxury iPad Case Review
The craftsmanship and elegance of the Lusso Cartella Luxury iPad case will lure you in, but unfortunately, the case has some drawbacks that make its $199 price tag hard to swallow. When I first received the Lusso Cartella Luxury iPad case, I was absolutely blown away. The presentation of the thing is about as classy [...]
