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We just received word that Dynamism is going to be offering up a special deal on the Viliv X70 Series MID on July 6th. If you want a killer deal on one of these new high rated units, head over early as the special is only for the first 777 units. Some basic specs on [...]
I am a Sugarsync user and I have the 100 Gig account and for me personally, I really like the service. One thing I like about using it as a backup solution is that I can access/backup from both my laptop (2 different partitions actually) and the Mac I have been using at home. [...]
Something that has been around for quite a while in cell phones is now big news in the iPhone world. The new 3.0 MP Camera and Video recording features in the iPhone are going to hit a sweet spot to iPhone users. I personally find that the current camera isn’t half bad, under the right [...]
Being mobile for us is part of the game we play. Many of us use a portable GPS mounted in the car Now there is a new option if you have an iPhone! Turn by Turn using TomTom on the iPhone! Noted as being available ‘this summer’. Updates as more becomes available
The ever rugged V100 from Getac has been given an ‘under the hood’ reworking to provide better performance while still keeping that bulletproof outer shell. This update has provided the V100 with a faster processor, higher memory capacity, more storage and expanded wireless options to provide greater connectivity while out in the field. This unit [...]
Touchpanel Laboratores is showing off some new 9 point detection technology. As the article says, there aren’t too many more details just yet, but it’s still another touchpanel for us to lay our fingers on! Of note as well is the mention of the ‘Curved Touchpanel screen — Imaging the possibilities!
So that didn’t last long… AT&T has retracted the changes I posted about earlier today. Engadget has the details: The language added on March 30 to AT&T’s wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any [...]
Humm What’s going on here?? What has AT&T done to the license agreement? I wonder if this means that there will be no Slingplayer on the iPhone?? “This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading legally acquired songs, and/or visiting corporate intranets is permitted, but downloading [...]
It’s almost getting crunch time for getting your taxes submitted and we all know what kind of mood that can get us in Well, it seems that the folks in Iowa were getting a little fired up during a recent hearing. One of the speakers was Matt Miller from Mobile Demand and his Tablet [...]
Following some reports a while back from Engadget Chinese about a mysterious netbook coming from Lenovo, pictures have now been posted of the Lenovo Yoga on their website. In what looks to be a very VERY cool little device you can see that there is also some type of touchscreen. The Yoga looks very professional [...]
I wish I would have known this trick a while back when I went through two phones in the matter of just as many months Ben over on UMPC Portal decided it might be a good time to try and give his iPhone a bath. Not really, but the results were amazing. Throw the [...]
TabletKiosk has entered into the mobile clinical assistant market with the introduction of the MediaSlate i1040XT. Featuring a resistive touch screen and an Intel Core 2 Solo processor, the innards of this unit appear to be able to handle anything thrown at it — plus provide decent battery life and a rugged design! Check out [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Meg over at GIS @ Vassar put up a post that kind of hits both my interests — GIS and Tablet PC’s. The new historic aerial photos feature in Google Earth 5.0 brings out a new level of use for a Tablet PC. Head over and check out how some change detection is accomplished right [...]
Check out this video of what I guess you could call a ‘Tablet PC’. I don’t think anyone out there would call this very mobile that’s for sure! It’s called the Sutherland Sketchpad and it was developed by M.I.T Lincoln Laboratory. Maybe we take for granted what we carry around in our arms today? :)
Looks like the next Acer Netbook might be just around the corner. Ubergizmo noticed that the new D150 has been approved by the FCC. This usually means that a release is soon to follow! Will it be as popular as the Aspire One? Only time will tell as there are SOO many choices now!
Wow — check this out! Thanks to Crunchgear posting this up. Dell has some Dell Mini 9 Netbooks in the refurbished computer store, and with a coupon you can cut the cost from $209.00 down to $179.00. It is the lowest end model with Ubuntu and only a 4G solid state drive, but if you [...]
Phatware has released version 3.1 of their PenOffice software. If you are an OpenOffice.org users with a Tablet PC, then you need to check out this update. The new version of PenOffice now includes support for OpenOffice.org 3.0 or later documents. That means that programs like Writer, Calc and Draw documents can now have handwritten [...]
A few days ago Warner put up a post about a ‘Netbook’ version of Windows 7 that that Microsoft was supposedly going to offer. Well, as a follow up to the original post, Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft responded to her question: Microsoft is now saying that this SKU is not specific to netbooks. [...]
If you haven’t done the download for Windows 7 just yet, and you are still thinking about killing your bandwidth for a while, then you only have a few more days to do it! The download has been extended for a little while longer and will end on February 10th. The following timeline is from [...]
This Wacom screen looks to be geared more to the educational or large corporation video departments, but still looks like a nice tool to use while giving a presentation. The Wacom PL-900 has a 19†screen, with a 1280 x 1024 resolution, that will allow the use of the digital pen to annotate and write [...]
While there are many file syncing applications out today, one that I have been using for my personal syncing needs is SugarSync. Today, Sharpcast is announcing some feature upgrades that will be delivered to some users today and expanding over the next week to all users. The primary new module is called Shared Folders, and [...]
We have brought the news and reviews about the Lenovo W700ds to you in the past on GottaBeMobile.com, but now JK over on JKontheRun.com has his hands on one. It will be interesting to see what he thinks of this large unit. I wonder if he’ll be hauling that thing over to Starbucks anytime soon!
Engadget linked to MSIWind.es earlier today showing a fully striped down MSI Wind U120. It’s always fun to see something taken down to the guts! The link is a Google translated page — and make sure to check out the links at the top of the MSIWind.ex page for some videos and reviews of the [...]
Good friend of GottaBeMobile.com James Province shot us a link to a video showing an Inking plugin for Acrobat. What’s the best part? Well, James is the star of that video! The post that is over on the Acrobat Blogs is informative and also has a video overview of the application in action. This new [...]
Rob mentioned the application called HyperSpace once before, but now there is news that the program will be out to the masses from an OEM. ASUS will be incorporating HyperSpace into their next generation netbooks. It appears that the Lenovo X301 is supported and I still have it till tomorrow so I might give this [...]
Windows Touch Remix looks like a nice replacement application for those of you using a Netbook with Windows XP but are still wanting the same ‘start menu’ interface that has been developed for the Linux offerings. This application is still being developed and is in the Beta form, but from looking over the threads, it [...]
If you are in the market for a TX2525 Entertainment PC head over to Woot.com before they sell out! The HP TX2525s they have are refurb units and are selling for $699.99. Not a bad deal for the specs. I recently took a look at the HP units and was really pleased with just about [...]
I just thought I would post up that the CES Keynote is being shown live if anyone wants to check it out!
EMTEC is joining in on the Netbook scene with the release of the Gdium. This netbook has some similar specs of some other netbooks but offers one unique feature: Unique to the Gdium is the G-Key, a bootable USB key on which the Linux operating system, applications and personal data are stored. The G-Key allows [...]
HP has announced a refresh to their Mini-Note with the HP Mini-Note 2140. This refresh has really bumped up the specs to make it a very capable netbook for the mobile warrior. With a full range of OS choices and configurations, this little guy gets pushed almost into the realm of having some laptop specs [...]
Chippy has some info over on UMPC Portal about the new Sony UMPC that (hopefully) will be covered by the gang at CES next week. It appears that Sony will be dipping into the Intel Atom processors on this one — check out the specs: Atom Z250 1.33 2GB RAM HDD (optional SSD) GPS [...]
As I am sure most of you are aware by now Team GBM is using some loaner Lenovo computers to cover CES (if you didn’t know that, they did :) ). I was supposed to be going this year, but things didn’t work out. I did still get a Lenovo X301 for a [...]
Via is getting ready to start some competition with Intel by putting out their own very low powered Dual Core 3000 processor. I didn’t see any specs on the speed, but below you can read what the Cnet News article is saying: The dual-core version of the Via Nano 3000–due in late 2009 or 2010–may [...]
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Apple made a lot of shutterbugs happy with the camera upgrades in the iPhone 4S — more pixels and a bigger sensor means an even better “best camera” to carry everywhere. Want to take the iPhone even further than that? With some additional accessories and apps you can turn this device into a mobile photo and video studio worthy of your enhanced skills.
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These days whenever someone mentions the word “Tablet” visions of the iPad or something similar dance in their heads. Not that long ago a tablet was something quite different: a Windows-based slate computer. Since the rise of the new idea of the tablet there have been a few Tablet PCs trying for relevance in an [...]
