On Friday night I decided to reinstall Vista Ultimate on my Lenovo x61 Tablet PC. I was just having too many issues from installing and uninstalling way too many trials, betas and demos. What I have done is tracked my progress and showing what I have installed and give you an idea of what I [...]
Looks like Nokia is following the latest tablet trend by integrating a slide-out keyboard. Checkout Thoughtfix’s TabletBlog for the confirming FCC info, which also backs up Engadget’s previous report of a slide-out keyboard. Technorati Tags: Nokia, Internet Tablet >
When students at Winona State get to choose between a Mac and Tablet PC, more and more students are choosing the Mac. Makes me wonder what would happen if Apple ever decided to come to market with a Mac Tablet: From TwinCities.com At the University of Minnesota bookstore, Macs are enshrined in a flashy sales-display [...]
Digital Rights Management is a scourge we all live with in order to download music digitally (and legally) over the Internet. But lately companies are making moves to change that. (Side note: My objection to DRM isn’t about being able to share music, but about being able to play it on any device I own. I also firmly [...]
Lifehacker has an interesting post on how to protect yourself in a work environment by taking good notes. I’m sure you might be familiar with a situation where something went wrong (or someone claimed something did) and everybody goes back to meeting notes to figure out what was said when and by whom? Sounds like [...]
I’ve had the beta of Vista Service Pack 1 running on two different Table PCs (2710p and X61) for three or four days. All in all, my experience with the beta has been pretty smooth. I experienced one bluescreen early on, but I honestly expected some rough stuff since it is a beta service pack. Any beta [...]
Thoughtfix was fortunate enough to attend Nokia’s Unlocked event, and has been posting up a storm from the event. As someone who also follows Nokia closely and enjoy’s using the N800 Internet Tablet, I found Nokia’s VP Bill Plummer answer to Thoughtfix’s question about their next Internet Tablet intriguing: more consumer focused rather than geek [...]
When the First Lady of the First Family of Tablet PCs asks, you better deliver. Lora Heiny has been on a bit of a blogging role these last few days, and as usual she’s prodding and asking questions. But she’s also providing some great insight while she’s asking the questions. In this post, where she [...]
Lora Heiny posts up a tid bit that Circuit City is looking to hire Project Specialists for Enabling Tech Ops in their new concept stores called The City. The job description says: “In this role you would help coordinate the deployment of Enabling Technologies such as Tablet PC, to all of our new concept stores…” [...]
This is an interesting development. While there have been many rants about Microsoft’s Vista SP1 beta (key point there: it is a beta) Long Zheng of istartedsomething has posted that there is a now a Create a Recovery Disk option in SP1 that: To be blunt, this tool creates merely a slimmed-down Windows installation disc. It takes [...]
Well, it’s been a while and lots of beta’s and trials… It’s time to give Vista some new life on the x61 Tablet PC… I am going to be doing a clean install of Vista Ultimate tonight. One thing I’m going to do – I’ll record everything I do so in the future some others [...]
I’m not sure if these are going to continue or not (this is the first one) but YouTube user jgvanides has posted a ‘Tablet PC Tip #1 over on YouTube. This is a quick once over with some tips on how/why to use Ink in a Powerpoint presentation. This might be one to keep an [...]
When we go “off-topic” at GBM, we try to make it worth it. This case is no different. Watch the video below for an unboxing of the HTC Tilt / Kaiser/ TyTN II that I just received from Dynamism.com Click To Play Technorati Tags: HTC Kaiser, HTC Tilt, Unboxing, Windows Mobile
Who would have thought… This is kind of interesting and something I have never though of Tablet PC’s being used in the past. I use Tablet PC’s daily to do mapping, but most of what I do is above ground, or mapping boring holes. These guys are talking about Tablet PC’s being taken underground to [...]
This is an interesting Tablet PC that I haven’t seen before today. It’s the Quadro Quadpad and it features Bluetooth, WiFi and 3G via a PC card slot. It looks like they are making a push for the Automobile industry in their marketing with all the GPS navigation talk. And hitting on the Automobile industry [...]
Allegiance Technology Partners is a good friend of GottaBeMobile.com, and to many folks who have wanted to demo a tablet pc before buying one. Well, Philadelphia Business Journal picked up on John Hill’s reputation and has featured him and his company in this story. Unfortunately, the entire story is only available to print subscribers, but you [...]
I’ve seen a lot of Ultra-Mobile PCs here at GottaBeMobile.com, but I have yet to see a UMPC perform as snappy as the Amtek T770. With its good performance, configurable buttons, and well designed track stick / mouse buttons, the T770 should make the short list of anyone looking for a UMPC. Unfortunately, there are a few niggles [...]
Here is a link to a great case study of how one school, Torrey Pines, intergrated Tablet PCs into their curriculum. The goal was to work with Wolfram Research’s Mathematica 6.0 technical computing software for advanced students. Here is a brief excerpt: James concurs: ““I was bombarded with the magnificent qualities of the Tablet PC’s special [...]
Yesterday we posted about the availablity of Office Mobile 6.1 as an upgrade for those who have a licensed version of version 6 on their mobile devices. The info and download link for that post is now broken and Microsoft seems to have pulled the update. This morning, Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun is sharing some [...]
Continuing a look at several BlueTooth headset options that are out there, here is a quick look at the Cardo S2 wrap around BlueTooth headset. Certainly not a headset option for driving around, but the Cardo S2 does the job if you’re looking to consume some media. It pairs up nicely with all of my [...]
Daniel (aka Thoughtfix) is attending and blogging from Nokia Unlocked, a conference that is focusing on Nokia’s approach to mobile devices. (The title is certainly interesting giving all of the news about Apple’s clamp down on unlocked iPhones with the latest update.) He’s posted a mini-wrapup that includes a couple of interesting points. Nokia is very [...]
In a sign that they are listening to OEM and customer feedback regarding Vista, Microsoft issued this press release today announcing that they are extending the availability of Windows XP through June 30, 2008. In an effort to respond to feedback the company is hearing from its customers and partners, Microsoft is extending availability of [...]
There really isn’t much content other than a short description in the post on YouTube. And I thought I enjoyed my 24″ widescreen hooked up to my Tablet PC… This movie shows the development of a visualization system of massive image data for tiled displays which uses a Tablet PC as the source for image [...]
We are all about being mobile here on GottaBeMobile, and one thing about being mobile is that often there are times when being able to watch some of your favorite shows can’t happen. Enter the Slingbox – The Slingbox will allow you to watch your show almost anywhere. With the help of a Tablet PC, [...]
Microsoft has rolled out an upgrade to Office Mobile 6.0 that now allows you to read native Microsoft Office 2007 file formats. If you recall, Office 2007 introduced a new file format based on Open XML, but the new file format at the launch of Office 2007 wasn’t available on other platforms. Of course there [...]
If you’re one of those who wished Microsoft had been consistent across the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of applications and added the Ribbon Interface to Outlook, you might want to take a look at this work in progress. Josh Einstein, the amazing developer of Tablet Enhancements for Outlook (TEO 3.0) has been tinkering with a [...]
Being a multiple Tablet PC person right now and suffering through the effects of having an integrated broadband account being tied to just my OQO Model 02, I’m definitely seeing the value in a more portable WWAN connectivity solution. This new USB Wireless modem, which will sell for $149.99, just announced by Verizon looks intriguing since [...]
Rob reported about Sprint’s WiMax news with Nokia yesterday. Turns out Sprint might be spilling the beans on some potential Ultra-Mobile PCs from some new players in one of their press releases. Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun picked up this paragraph: “PC manufacturers Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Panasonic and Toshiba have expressed intent to embed WiMAX into [...]
Fascinating. CTitanic has a very powerful pictorial that shows off the before and after of a company making a transition from conventional PCs to UMPCs. Agromillora Catalana SA is a High Tech Nursery that recently made the switch from all PCs to TabletKiosk eo V7110 UMPCs. Tags: UMPC, TabletKiosk
William at The Student Tablet PC has put up an informative post for those who might be taking a look at purchasing a Tablet PC second hand. From a student’s perspective, (or anyone who is lacking the cash to purchase something new) he offers some good insights into why a used (but much loved by [...]
Tis’ the day for tablet news! This in from Reuters, which confirms what Thoughtfix uncovered yesterday from the FCC regarding Nokia’s latest Internet Tablet due next year: Intel Corp. said on Wednesday it had won a mobile WiMax chip order from cellphone maker Nokia, which will use its semiconductors in Internet-focused devices from 2008. Nokia [...]
Well, just when you think you have seen it all… Thoughtfix comes up and trumps it! What is it?? He calls it a 2NITS – Two Nokia Tablets and an iPod Touch. This is what is in the car: Nokia 770 Internet Tablet running Carman Nokia N800 Internet Tablet running Navicore iPod touch playing music [...]
AppleInsider has all the juicy details on what Apple is cooking up as their answer to the UMPC. AI calls it the return of the Newton, building on the features of the iPhone and iPod Touch. The picture below is an artist rendition, by AudioPollution / AppleInsider, of what it might look like, to scale. Talk [...]
In the GottaBeMobile.com Podcast #34, Warner and I chat about quite a few things that have been running around the Internet for the past week. Before we get into that though, we talk about the new upgrades that just happened in the GBM Forums. We have our thoughts on the new style and some of [...]
Reading the headline of this post you might ask, “Now what has accessibility got to do with mobile or tablet and touch technology?” Read on and hopefully you will get it. I admit that this is going to be largely an editorial, but hopefully we will learn something along the way and that makes it a [...]
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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 [...]
