Yesterday I had a long conversation with Oliver Bussman, the CIO of SAP, a business software company with well over 50,000 employees around the globe, about tablets. Bussman is a tablet power-user and a big proponent of mobilizing workers. The past week or so has been chock full of tablet news. The Motorola Xoom went [...]
According to this slide dug up by Engadget it looks like AT&T is going to limit the Mobile Hotspot feature coming in iOS 4.3 to three devices. Intriguing and yet not entirely surprising even thought every other mobile carrier in the world that allows a mobile hotspot feature allows up to five devices to be [...]
As you may recall, back in August, HP CTO Phil McKinney was caught on camera playing with a trio of unnamed, unseen gadgets. Two have turned out to be the HP Touchpad and a phone that, based on size, is probably the HP Pre3. The third was an unnamed watch-like device, which turns out to [...]
Our friends Steve ‘Chippy’ Paine and Sascha Pallenberg got their hands on an HTC Flyer in Germany and demonstrate its inking chops. The inking experience looks mediocre, with palm rejection only working some of the time. The small Android tablet isn’t shipping with Honeycomb, but Android 2.3, which is what you’ll find on smartpphones. On [...]
Earlier today we pointed to a fake iPad 2 promo video that Conan O’Brien’s team put together. It’s not the only one making the rounds today. In this ‘banned’ iPad 2 Promo video, things get a little more personal. Johnny Five talks design points out the new iPad 2 doesn’t have features found in the [...]
In news that probably shouldn’t be news to anyone, Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is negotiating with the big music labels to change the structure of its online music business. The idea, according to all those sources who can’t be mentioned, is that customers could have unlimited downloads of their purchased music, stored in the [...]
Here are a couple of interesting items to ponder in the wake of the dominating Apple news of the week. Lots of folks are writing off other Tablet efforts given the love affair with Apple and iPad 2, but we all know that within a few short weeks of the release of the iPad 2 [...]
BGR reports that RBC Capital Markets is forecasting “explosive” growth in the global tablet market with revenues shooting up to $70B by 2014, and Android will become the dominant platform due to broader support from manufacturers and wireless carriers. Sounds reasonable enough, except I don’t think they’re looking at all the right data.
Inspiron41 posted a YouTube video comparing the Notion Ink Adam and the Motorola Xoom Tablets. Both have 10 inch screens and both run Nvidia’s Tegra 2 chipset. But the similarities end about there. Remember the Notion Ink Adam comes with a PIxel Qi screen that allows for good readability in direct sunlight. The Xoom is [...]
I got quite a few odd looks when I camped out in the cafeteria for the day at my wife’s work the other day. I guess it’s not entirely normal to carry a pair of laptops and a tablet, much less set them up in public, even in the middle of Silicon Valley. I needed [...]
Droid Life is reporting that Sam’s Club is getting set to sell a WiFi-only version of the Motorola Xoom for $539, which is $60 cheaper than we were expecting. The 3G/4G LTE version of the Motrola Xoom is available for $599 with a two-year contract or $799 without a contract. The Motorola Xoom is the [...]
You have to say this about Samsung’s exec in charge of the Galaxy Tab line. They don’t play the PR game the way others do. Apparently they are pretty comfortable speaking their mind, saying things like the 7 inch form factor isn’t a Tablet and announcing a new version of a Galaxy Tab right on [...]
When you become a cultural topic d’jour you open yourself up for parody and satire. Conan O’Brien’s show has a pretty hysterical take on the iPad 2.
“People with knowledge” say it. Bloomberg reported it. According to that report Microsoft won’t be ready to roll out its current Tablet hopes until the back to school season of 2012. Testing is scheduled to begin at the end of this year according to the same sources. Should we cue up Steve Miller’s Fly Like [...]
According to a few loose-lipped Best Buy retail employees I spoke with, the HTC Thunderbolt will go on sale on March 10, not tomorrow (March 4) as had been previously slated. The March 4 HTC Thunderbolt release date was the target as recently as late last week, but apparently not all of the ‘politics’ have [...]
There’s no question that yesterday Apple showed that it sets the rules when it comes to Tablets. They’ve done it before. I’m guessing somewhere down the line they will do it again. More intriguingly Apple’s recent announcement, both in style and substance has transformed not only the world of Tablets, but the discussion about the [...]
Previously available only for the iPhone as it’s the only device at the time to feature a camera, iMovie is getting a makeover and Apple will be converting the app into a Universal App, meaning you can purchase it once (if you haven’t already) and have it work on either iPhone or optimized for the [...]
Yesterday I wrote a brief article about why specs don’t matter to most shoppers. A lot of people seem to disagree and have spent the better part of today pointing out why the Xoom and other tablets have more GB, GHz and MP. One tablet may have more or less of them, but in the [...]
The introduction of the BlackBerry PlayBook seems like an eternity ago. The QNX powered tablet was first introduced at DefCon 2010…as in September 2010, long before the Apple iPad 2, Motorola Xoom or HP TouchPad tablets had seen the light of day. But BlackBerry fans won’t have to wait much longer to get their hands [...]
BGR is reporting that RIM plans to open their BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to other platforms, specifically Android followed by iOS. Though no details were obtained, the basic plan was confirmed with several sources. If true, it marks a big change for BlackBerry and probably a smart one at that.
This morning I received an email from a long time reader asking the question in the title of this post. Here’s an except from that email: I’m a vice president in a large company and have relied on my tablet for more years than I want to admit. WHERE IS ONENOTE IN ALL THIS MESS? [...]
The iPad 2′s optional HDMI adapter is a big leap forward for sharing content, but this solution is not as good as I’d hoped for. I wish Apple’s ‘hobby’ could be used in conjunction with the iPad 2 rather than the HDMI adapter. The Apple TV (the hobby) is only $99 and is the piece [...]
There are a lot of Apple fans out there debating whether or not to upgrade from the original iPad to the iPad 2. Of course you can always try your hand at selling your iPad on eBay or Craigslist, but good luck standing out from the crowd, especially now that Apple’s selling the original iPad [...]
In addition to sharing digital media content via Air Share, which will allow Mac OS X and iOS users to share what’s on their devices with Apple TV to stream it to a larger HDTV wirelessly over WiFi, Apple will also be introducing a new feature called Home Sharing to iOS 4.3, which was briefly [...]
Conspicuously absent from yesterday’s iPad 2 announcement were the rate plans for 3G service. The Apple site instead deferred to AT&T and Verizon for details without offering direct links. AT&T is sharing details on what’s the same and what’s different in their revamped tablet data plans.
Photo Booth, a popular app on the Mac OS X environment as it allows users to use the front-facing webcams on their Mac to take pictures and add various effects to the images, illuminating a different perspective of how you look at yourself. Apple is porting this popular and whimsical program to the iPad 2, [...]
Apple’s Smart Cover accessory for the iPad 2 brings good looks and smart design to the second-generation tablet, but more importantly, the cover case serves a secondary purpose to show off the iPad 2′s industrial design and turn you into a walking product placement machine whenever you walk around with the tablet. The case design [...]
Over at Notebooks.com I posted a comparison between the specs of the old iPad v. the new one. With the iPad coming March 11 (video of announcement), some might be wondering if upgrading is really worth it. In one sense it is such a minor difference, it is unlikely that most iPad owners will really [...]
Apple has been known to call itself a software company despite delivering amazing hardware with great industrial design. In the company’s iPad 2 announcement, CEO Steve Jobs reiterated Apple’s stance as a software–and more importantly, by inference, as a user experience company–rather than a hardware company. Many keen users who watched the keynote and the [...]
HardCandy Cases announced a small collection of new iPad 2 cases today. The new cases include sleeves and a convertible folio with a cutout for the camera and will be available in April 2011. The Candy Convertible iPad 2 case is a faux nubuck folio style case that allows you to prop the iPad 2 into a typing position [...]
AT&T will follow the lead of Verizon and offer wireless hotspot tethering on their network for iPhone 4 users who upgrade to the new iOS 4.3. The cost of the new feature will be $20/month in addition to the cost of a wireless data plan, all according to CNET who got the official confirmation from [...]
One of the reports at CES 2011 was that Sprint would be releasing a 3G/4G Novatel MiFi card for sale on February 27. Well, we’re now a few days into March and of course there has been no announcement. Apparently, the debut of the 4G MiFi card will be later this month, with some sources [...]
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, I was able to sit down with Tyler Lessard to talk a little bit more about the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet from Research in Motion. I had first glimpsed the PlayBook at the Consumer Electronics Show in person earlier this year, but at GDC, RIM was showing [...]
We previously reported what looks not to be an erroneous report that the new iPad would only have 256MB of memory (RAM). We could not believe that was true. It now appears it was indeed false. Apple Insider is reporting that an analyst Tweeted that the new iPad has 512MB of Ram. We are not [...]
Booq just announced a new iPad 2 case which should help you get an inking and note taking experience. How you ask? With a built in tablet, of paper, that you can write, draw and sketch on all you want without a soft tipped stylus. The BooqPAD is a pretty interesting iPad 2 case which protects you iPad 2 [...]
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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 [...]
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