Archives For Matt Faulkner
Mobile On A Motorcycle With The Sena SMH5 Bluetooth Headset
The Sena SMH5 Bluetooth headset attaches inside a motorcycle helmet for music, calls and even Siri without removing your helmet and gloves.
Dynamism Offering Special Viliv X70 Pre Order Deal
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.
Going Social With Sugarsync
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...
Better Pictures and Mobile Video For The iPhone
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 is...
TomTom Navigation Comes To The iPhone
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 ...
Spec Update For The Getac V100 Rugged Tablet PC
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 stor...
Touchpanel Lab Shows Off Some New Touchscreen Tech
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 â€Ë...
We’re a GO for Slingplayer With Retracted AT&T TOS Change
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.
Hold on there Mobile iPhone Slingplayer People!
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 ...
Throwing Your Tablet PC for Taxes
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 fr...
Lenovo Yoga Netbook Pictures
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...
A Little Rice With That iPhone?
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. ...
TabletKiosk Introduces the MediSlate™ MCA i1040XT
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 Ã...
Microsoft and Lenovo Team Up for College Students
This is a cool promotion that Lenovo and Microsoft are doing for College students â€" 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...
The 2008 Engadget Awards are Live
It's that time â€" 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 knowled...
Digitizing Google Earth with a Tablet PC
Meg over at GIS @ Vassar put up a post that kind of hits both my interests â€" 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 det...
Try to Carry This Tablet PC Around!
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...
Acer Aspire D150 Netbook Coming Soon?
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 ...
Dell Mini 9 for $179.00!
Wow â€" 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 an...
PenOffice 3.1 Offers OpenOffice Inking Support
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. Th...
So It’s Not a Netbook Version of Windows 7??
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 ...
Get the Windows 7 Beta Soon
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. ...
Wacom PL-900 For Your Next Presentation
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 all...
SugarSync Adding New Features – Shared Folders
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...
JK Takes A Look At The Lenovo W700ds
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 t...
MSI Wind U120 Netbook Showing All
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 â€" and make sure to check out the links at the top of the MSIWind.ex p...
Tablet PC Inking Plugin for Acrobat
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 ...
HyperSpace and ASUS Team for Instant On
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 supporte...
Netbook Remix Style Application for Windows XP
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 de...
HP TX2525 Entertainment PC on WOOT.com
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 real...
Watch the CES 2009 Keynote Live
I just thought I would post up that the CES Keynote is being shown live if anyone wants to check it out! .
EMTEC Launches the Gdium Netbook
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, applicat...
HP Mini-Note 2140 Announced
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 a...
New Sony UMPC Picks Up Some 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 â€" check out the specs: Atom Z250 1.33 2GB...
X301 Mobile at the Coffee Shop
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 :) ).
