As I typed the headline of this post I wonder if we are going to start referring to this new Asus Eee PC as the HA. Maybe I just did. In any regard, jkkmobile has posted a hands on video of the device and points out the differences between the HA and the other Asus [...]
Predicting how things will work out with Microsoft’s Windows 7 upgrade strategy is as fraught with peril as trying to predict where the economy is going these days. That said, Bloomberg has a post questioning the Microsoft strategy for Netbooks that will offer a limited and stripped down Windows 7 Starter Edition, hoping customers [...]
I’m impressed with how quickly this happened and it makes a huge statement or two. Amazon has released its Kindle App for the iPhone and iPod Touch. From the looks of what I’m reading so far, folks are impressed in the early going. So, now if you want to download Kindle content to your iPhone [...]
Today’s Logic Buy deal of the day is a coupon that knocks $15 off a Dell Mini 9, Mini 10 or Mini 12. That might not sound like a whole lot, but it brings the Mini 9′sprice tag down to just $234. To learn more and grab the $15 Dell coupon head over to [...]
If you love OneNote like many of us at GottaBeMobile, then you need to checkout IHeartOneNote.com, a new user community for OneNote fanatics.
Not wanting to leave an OS untouched, Evernote has released an Android-optimized version of Evernote Mobile Web. I have a G1 at home and look forward to testing it when I return from Redmond. If you have a G1, head over to www.evernote.com/m to check it out for yourself. From Evernote: Today we unveil [...]
This is a cool promotion that Lenovo and Microsoft are doing for College students — Reduced pricing on some of the higher end ThinkPad computers. Of special note, they have included the ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC into the mix. They don’t call out any pricing in the announcement other than ‘Starting at $999.00′, so figuring [...]
Xavier has the details on Notebooks.com but Eye-Fi has just put a new Eye-Fi card that uploads video from your digital camera to Flickr and YouTube on the market for $99. The new cards are the 4GB Explore Video ($79) and the 4GB Share Video ($79) and you can purchase them at www.eye.fi. Xavier also [...]
Both Engadget and SlashGear have some coverage of the Asus Eee PC Keyboard. You might remember this got announced at CES 2009, and is a basically a computer within a keyboard that also contains a touchscreen. It runs on an Intel Atom 270 and contains a 16GB SSD, WiFI, BlueTooth, and 1GB of RAM.
Asus’s Netbook Tablet, the EEe PC T91Go continues to turn heads. We’ve seen some of the touch UI in action before, but jkkmobile got his hands on the Table at CeBIT and does some touching of the screen and the multi-touch on the trackpad. (I’m surprised he doesn’t mod things right on the show floor.) [...]
Ouch. Speaking of subsides on Netbooks, a customer got socked with a $5,077 bill for using her newly acquired AT&T subsidized Netbook. She’s filing suit against AT&T and Radio Shack.
At the Mobile World Congress we heard quite a bit from the Korean consumer electronics company LG. Part of that was LG’s new Netbooks, the X120, which is a follow up to the X110. According to this article in Forbes, LG will be bringing these Netbooks to market in the US this summer. To this [...]
Microsoft has a catalog of marketing and branding woes and one of the recurring nightmares in all of that falls under the Live brand. Search and various services fall under Live currently, and with Windows 7 a few more services (Windows Movie Maker being one) will also come under that brand. The problem is Live [...]
Steve “Chippy” Paine and jkkmobile are tearing up CeBIT with lots of coverage and they’ve put up some pictures and video the Asus Eee Shell everyone was talking about over the weekend. Make sure you hit their sites for more. UPDATE: By the way, this is now being referred to as the EEE PC 10o8HA. [...]
CeBIT is seeing some interesting mobile releases this year. GigaByte is unveiling what they are calling the Touch Note M1028, which is a touch screen Tablet running an Atom N280 processor at 1.66GHz. It also comes with a 160GB hard drive. There are four flavors of the M1028: The M1028M and the M1028G feature a [...]
Today’s deal of the day from Logic Buy is for ThinkPads of all shapes and sizes. The coupon is good for 15% off ThinkPad X301, X200s and X200 Tablets. Click here for more details and to grab the coupon code. Up to 20% stackable eCoupon on Lenovo ThinkPad and IdeaPad laptops including ThinkPad T400/T500, X301, [...]
We were hanging out at Microsoft’s Building 37 tonight, and on the way out Craig Pringle, Hugo Ortega, and I caught a glimpse of what might appear to be Microsoft’s new store. The etching on the back of the glass says “Windows Mobilization Flagship Environment” More pictures after the break.
It’s that time — well, it’s kind of late actually.. for the 2008 Engadget Awards! If you have voted in the past, you know that they have a Tablet PC of the year award to give away. Who better than the readers of GottaBeMobile.com to cast a knowledgeable vote? There are plenty of other categories [...]
The folks at OneNote are showing off a new add on that got developed by the folks at Office Labs. That’s the new home of former OneNote Wonder Chris Pratley so the blood lines are pretty solid here. Anyway, Canvas for OneNote lets you take a birds eye view of your notes in a notebook, [...]
In Windows 7, Microsoft has broadend their recognizers from 12 languages in Vista to 26 languages, which include the following: Norweigian (bokmal & nynorsk), Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Polish, Porgeues (Portugal), Romanian, Serbian (Cryillic & Latin), Catalan, Russian, Czech, and Croatian. Non-English Windows 7 will get their language recognizer, plus English. The recognizers are currently a [...]
A frequently requested feature from tablet pc users in vertical markets was support for custom dictionaries (medical, field specific, etc). Unfortunately, support for custom dictionaries is not in Vista, but is available in Windows 7. Now, a user can have a primary and custom dictionary for each input scope ( dictionary,country name, surname, etc). In [...]
I usually don’t find myself in climates cold enough to wear snow gear, but during a recent trip to New York I learned first hand that gloves and iPhones don’t mix. I sure wish I had a pair of DOTS gloves instead of walking around with one bare hand while navigating the freezing streets of [...]
Don’t get too excited. This dual screen notebook is just a concept in a design competition that may never see the light of day, but as we see more and more of these concepts and wait to hear more about the OLPC dual screen it sure whets the appetite for something like this to actually [...]
Microsoft Surface is starting to stretch out its impact a bit by expanding into EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) markets. They’ve recently announced that Microsoft Surface is now available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, UAE and the UK. Microsoft has (or is about to) publish some new [...]
One of the things I find absolutely frustrating about the iPhone is the lack of a BlueTooth solution to allow for music playback and voice or speech input. I have ranted and raved about that incessantly. I find it hard to believe that a company like Apple can’t come up with a workable solution for [...]
Hot on the news of the release of the Amazon Kindle 2 came word that Hearst Corp was going to release an electronic reader of its own. Devices that use the digital e-Ink displays seem to pop up every day or so as does the bad news of another newspaper suffering or falling into bankruptcy. [...]
Over on Channel 9′s show The Knowledge Chamber Joe Fletcher is discussing the presentation he’s going to debut at MIX09 with host Robert Hess. In the presentation he’ll be talking about the future of touch and gesture computing in Windows 7 and Microsoft Surface. If you’re interesting in hearing about some aspect of touch and/or [...]
At this winter’s DEMO 09 a company called Always Innovating is going to show off its Netbook that they call a Touch Book. Yes, it has a touch screen, but there’s no word yet if it is has a capacitive digitizer and multi-touch. Which is interesting because some of the coverage says it can run [...]
Today’s deal of the day from Logic Buy is an Eee PC 900HA for $299.99. The 900HA is an 8.9-inch netbook and Buy.com is throwin in a free 16GB USB flash drive to sweeten the deal. Visit Logic Buy for all the details. The 900HA comes with a 160GB hard drive and an Intel Atom [...]
I’m hanging out in Seattle and Redmond this week attending Microsoft’s MVP Summit. In this GBM Shortcut, I give a quick look at my gear, as well as the gloomy weather of Seattle. All GBM Shortcuts are sponsored by Lenovo.
Today you can get 30% off select HP laptops and the tx2 convertible table. For more info and the coupon code visit LogicBuy. 30% off coupon code for select HP Pavilion Laptops configured $999 or above. Coupon is valid on HP Pavilion laptops: HDX16t, HDX18t, dv3z, dv4z, dv5z, dv6t, dv7t, tx2z Multi-touch tablet.
It looks like the lawyers for Intel and Psion (and I’m guessing Dell) are keeping themselves busy in the ongoing Netbook Naming Wars. If you recall, Psion Teklogix had decided to take back its trademark on the name Netbook, long after most believe it had become a generic enough term in the mobile computing space. [...]
Shenandoah University, the local university where I live, has been working towards pushing the technology envelope in the last few years, just has many others have been. It’s not news that universities and colleges offer and often require incoming students to purchase devices like Tablet PCs, notebooks, iPods, and other devices. I say purchase because [...]
The Father of Ink Blogging, Sumocat, has uncovered a couple of new Ink Bloggers that are worth following. Especially since Ink Bloggers seem to burst onto the scene with a flair and then fade away. I guess that’s only natural given that it takes some real dedication and desire to keep at Ink Blogging, which [...]
Long Zheng of istartedsomething has uncovered video from Microsoft Office Labs that shows the vision for 2019. I have to say what we see in the video looks pretty amazing and I’m sure we’d all like to get where this video shows us going. A number of the technologies we’re seeing in their infancy today [...]
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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 [...]
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