The hype is over and a new DROID phone from Verizon, Motorola and Google is upon us. The HTC Incredible is due for release on April 29th, but the news is better. If you want to pre-order this new phone, customers will be able to starting Monday, April 19th. So, what is the big deal [...]
Toshiba might be talking about slates in the future but for those who are interested in a more traditional full featured convertible Tablet PC, Toshiba has the M780 on sale and ready to go. The M780 is the successor to the M750. It is running Windows 7 on an Intel Core I3, I5, or I7 [...]
What? Printing using an iPad you say! It can’t be done. We know it cant be done. We wish it could be done. Maybe when the iPads update to iPhone OS 4.0, we may get some form of printing capability via Bluetooth or WiFi or something. Well, the folks over at Geek.com have a post [...]
Akihabara News has posted several photos of a Fujitsu eReader prototype featuring a color e-ink screen.
Ugh. I don’t know why I bother looking at anything in the mainstream media that mentions Tablet PCs. Oh right, I run all those feeds through my reader and filter anything with the term. Too bad I can’t filter out the items that do no justice to the term.
Not every military project should make its way to civilian use, like depleted uranium shells, but I hope to see this one from HP soon: a wrist-mounted, solar-powered, e-ink computer display. Finally, an e-ink display I want to use.
In the “Now I have seen everything” department, the US Library of Congress announced a deal with Twitter to archive all public tweets, dating back to Twitter’s inception in March 2006. From the Library of Congress’s blog: Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. [...]
The GMail folks keep cranking out features and most arrive when you aren’t looking it seems. Today they’ve rolled out two new features. The first makes it easier to invite folks to a meeting if you share calendars. Below the subject field is a new invite link that allows you to view a prospective invitee’s [...]
Yesterday I got a friendly little email from the Wall St. Journal asking me to take a survey about how I read and use news. I thought I’d give it a go and I did. Low and behold the question in the picture accompanying this post popped up, and the range of choices offered also [...]
Stories about Apple’s App Store approval/rejection process have been nothing but puzzling. What gets rejected and what gets included sometimes baffles anyone who has any hope of looking for consistency. Once again, Apple has created a puzzler, this time rejecting an App from Mark Fiore, a Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist. The rejection happened in [...]
It had to happen sooner rather than later. My lovely wife Thomasin got a chance to check out the iPad briefly when we were with my Mom at the hospital. Now that things have settled down on that front, it was time for her to check it out for real and offer her first impressions. [...]
Ben at Carrypad has designed an outstanding DIY project for security-minded iPad owners to try: a case made from a book. Yes, we’ve all seen DIY booksafes before, but usually for hiding stuff in a bookshelf, not for hiding gadgets in plain sight.
Tim Conneally of BetaNews went hands on with the Camagi WebStation Tablet and has penned up a review. Unfortunately is summation is a disappointing one. I’m not sure why I said unfortunately there, because in my view, we’re going to see quite a few Tablets, regardless of OS and maker, that will disappoint if and [...]
Toshiba, like most other computer makers, is working on delivering slates to the market later this year. GM of of Digital Products for Toshiba, Jeff Barney is reported as saying that there will be a Windows 7 Tablet/slate and an Android version. The Windows 7 version will be dual screen, but there’s no elaboration on [...]
Evernote‘s introducing Note History and doubling the maximum note size to 50MB for its premium subscribers. According to Evernote, these are the two most requested features from its premium users. The larger note size limit will allow premium users to attach larger (or multiple) files in any format. While it was possible to split multiple [...]
My cake-making sister was out and about in Waikiki and snapped this photo of a street artist practicing his craft with a Tablet PC.
That Opera managed to get their mobile web browser, a competitor to the iPhone’s Safari, to the App Store came as quite a shock, but the aftershocks could be even bigger as Skyfire takes it as a sign that their video-enabling mobile browser could have a shot. Could they bring Flash to the iPhone?
The iPad is certainly attracting all kinds of attention and one of the keys for its success is that Apple Stores exist so that folks can have a chance to go hands on with the device. Well, we don’t have an Apple Store here in the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, so I thought I [...]
Android has been steady gaining ground and the new smartphone operating system of choice. But, with so many versions out there, is Android splintering or is this just temporary until the manufacturers issue updates? According to this chart from Android and Me, its all about Android 1.5, 1.6 and 2.1. Android 1.5 still has life [...]
Up until this week, anyone interested in buying the Barnes and Nobel e-reader, the nook, had either had to go to a Barnes and Noble store, or go online to their web site. Well, it looks like B&N is going to change their marketing strategy with allowing nooks to be sold at Best Buy. This [...]
I know some folks think I’m crude when I post and remind them that there is such a thing as Stall Surfing. You know, surfing the web while sitting on the throne. But the truth is, more people than are willing to admit do so. Smartphones made this practice, though still cloaked in subterfuge, even [...]
The Ring Central Ring Ultimate Small Business Start Up Giveway has already started on other tech sites, and now its our turn to add to the contest frenzy. If you are interesting in winning a complete small business set up package, including things like voice service, business cards, logo creation, web hosting, etc, today is [...]
Apple has announced that sales of the WiFi version of the iPad have exceeded projections and consequently this will delay sales on an International level by one month. Apple has reportedly sold 500,000 units in the first week and has 3G orders to fulfill the end of this month. Here’s the statement: Although we have [...]
HP Home is offering the HP TouchSmart tm2t 12-inch Convertible Tablet with multitouch for $750 including free shipping after a $150 instant discount and a $200 stackable HP coupon code. The HP TouchSmart tm2t is powered by a ULV Pentium processor, but can be upgraded to an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. This model has [...]
Some of the big brains on the Internet have been weighing in on Microsoft Kin (Kevin Purcell’s got our report on Notebooks.com), throwing out everything from heavy analysis to utter disbelief. I admit to some extent it appears puzzling, but I can sum it up in one word: iPod.
Remember the Modbook. You know that mod of a Macbook that turned it into a Tablet. Well this idea reminds me vaguely of that, but I doubt it will ever reach the market for legal reasons. The folks at Axon Logic are looking to intro a $500 Tablet that runs OSX. Of course that means [...]
It’s no secret that one of the ugly blights of touch computing has to be greasy, smudgy, ugly fingerprints. Touch a screen and you’re going to leave a mark of some kind. No one can keep their fingerprints that free of grease and grime. It just doesn’t happen. There are no real practical solutions for [...]
We’ve been interested in seeing the Hanvon Tablet lineup for some time and it looks like we might be getting closer. Hanvon has just announced its multi-touch Tablet which promises both multi-touch and pen and ink. They are calling it the Touchpad. The keyboardless Tablet has a 10.1 inch screen with a resolution of 1024×768 [...]
News out of PC World, via a variety of sources, is that Intel has ported the Android OS to their Atom CPUs intended to run in smartphones. This brings them a step closer to getting Intel Atom processors ready for the handheld market and challenging the ARM-only market.
No earth-shaking news here: Apple refreshed their Macbook Pro line with a quiet store announcement today. The 15- and 17-inch models look good for the desktop replacement crowd, but folks interested in the more portable 13-inch MBP seem to be getting the short end of the stick.
Obviously from the get go, the Apple iPad should in no way be confused with what many of us here on the pages of GBM think of as a Tablet PC. It is a different kind of device and intended to be so. If you are not clear on that, you haven’t been paying attention. [...]
Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed to folks at a party in LA that Google is working on a Tablet and confirmed that it will probably “not get it right the first time.” Coming from the company that made Beta famous, Schmidt is basically saying that Google will continue the trend that we’ve seen with so [...]
Well, well, well. Most thought this would never happen but it has. Apple has approved the Opera Mini Browser app for the iPhone and it is now available for download in the iTunes App store. Given the fits and starts about app approval, I, like many never thought Apple would approve this and thought the [...]
Lenovo is offering the Lenovo ThinkPad X201 12″ notebook with a Core i5 processor for $1,099 after an instant savings of $290, including free shipping. The Lenovo ThinkPad X201 comes with a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 12.1″ display, 2GB RAM, 160GB hard drive and a 4 cell battery. You can add an optional 9 [...]
Some have summarily dismissed stand alone eBook readers as headed for the recycle bin now that the iPad has begun the Tablet/Slate revolution. To some I guess that makes sense. Why have a stand alone device that reads only in black and white when you can read those same eBooks in color on a device [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in [...]
The Next Nexus: What It Needs to Stay Ahead of the Pack
Late last year, Google and Samsung released the third rendition of the Nexus smartphone. The first of course was the HTC-made Nexus One which arrived in 2010 to great fan fare. Then, in late part of 2010, the Samsung-made Nexus S launched which eventually became available in two variants, the regular Nexus S and the [...]
Nokia Responds to Alleged 3-Inch ‘Tablet’ Leaks
When Nokia took the stage in New York City with carrier partner T-Mobile USA, various news outlets were reporting that Nokia was either working on a 3-inch tablet or media player. Right now, the company says that the information that was reported earlier was all a misunderstanding by various hopeful blogs. The device that was [...]
Pad & Quill Octavo iPad Case 2 Looks Great but is Bulky
The Pad & Quill Octavo case for the iPad 2 is a leather bound case that looks great on the iPad 2. This case is crafted with care and you can tell that when you pick it up. Pad & Quill is known for producing high quality cases that protect your tablet, computer or iPhone with [...]
Pad & Quill Fire Keeper: A Beautiful Kindle Fire Case
If you have a Kindle Fire, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at the beautiful Kindle Fire Keeper, a case from Pad & Quill. Pad & Quill cases protect your iPad, eBook reader, computer or iPhone with a touch of class giving users a classic book-like experience even though they’re holding a very [...]
id America Gasket iPhone Case Review
iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but now and then I see one that stands out. Enter the Gasket iPhone case from id America. The id America Gasket case is a brushed aluminum iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S case that looks absolutely stunning. The machined case is inspired by the head gasket you’d find inside a [...]
