Warner Crocker is a professional theatre director, producer and playwright and also a Tablet PC enthusiast. He is also a Microsoft MVP for Tablet PCs. Send email to Warner.
Cocoa Box Design, the developers of the iPad App, Pen Ultimate (iTunes link) have pushed out an update (v 1.2) that makes digital inking for note takers easier. I’ve written about Pen Ultimate before and Hector Gomez has provided us with a video of it in action. Essentially, the folks at Cocoa Box Design have [...]
Apple has put up a letter telling what it thinks is the issue with the “Death Grip” issue and signal degradation. The bottom line? Apple says, in what it calls a surprising discovery, the software that calculates and displays signal bar strength on the screen is inaccurate. Apple is promising a fix for the iPhone [...]
TenOneDesign is teasing us with something that might never be. In the video below you can see them using a PogoSketch stylus to Ink on an iPad. Yes, there’s Palm Rejection, but unfortunately the algorithms involved from the InkLet product take advantage of private frameworks and Apple usually rejects Apps that do this as they [...]
Yesterday the news was that Woot! the popular discount shopping site famous for one day one deal bargains was bought by Amazon.com. Like some of other Amazon properties, apparently Woot! is on its own to run its business. (Audible.com comes to mind as another Amazon property that runs this way.) This morning the first Woot! [...]
I noticed an item this morning or yesterday that said that Microsoft’s Live Messenger app had been downloaded over a million times. That got me to thinking a bit. As someone who is happily platform agnostic I find that good news. Folks who like Messenger and who use an iPhone aren’t limited by some sort [...]
Hulu released its App for the iDevice platform yesterday and announced that it’s subscription service will be available for $9.99 a month. You can currently apply to enter the Beta. But that’s only the beginning of this post and it certainly is jut another in a long line of Internet based media viewing solutions. Supposedly [...]
The PogoPlug is one of my favorite solutions for backing things up. I call it my own personal cloud. Well, they’ve just recently announced a new feature that will allow printing from just about any device. “Web printing” will allow users to print documents from mobile gadgets from iDevices, to Android, and other mobile platforms. [...]
It is has been a busy day for Amazon. This morning they announced the audio and video features for the Kindle App for iDevices. This afternoon they are announcing that the long awaited Kindle App for the Android platform is now available. You’ll need Android 1.6 or above to use the app. Here’s the press [...]
Let’s start this review of the iPhone 4 by saying that after picking up the phone on Thursday in the middle of a rushed day of travel and work, not to mention waiting in line, I felt initially disappointed. Even before getting the phone in my hand, I didn’t feel like this phone’s hyped up [...]
Amazon is adding audio and video to its Kindle App for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. As of this writing the new version doesn’t appear to be in the App Store, but there are several book titles that take advantage of the new features available for purchase. Some of these include Rose’s Heavenly Cakes [...]
I wasn’t aware this was an issue until I started reading about it today. Apparently much of the violence in the Congo is due to warlords trying to control the mining and distribution of minerals that go into our shiny gadgets. Specifically these minerals include tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold, and they are called by [...]
Set aside that the wrongly named left handed reception issue is the big iPhone 4 story of the moment, and may indeed turn into this gadget’s legacy. This post is about my early discoveries with battery life. You know, the bane of the smart/super phone industry. After the initial iPhone reviews broke in the mass [...]
Joanna Stern has given the HP Touchsmart tm2 Tablet PC a thorough review on Engadget and she covers all the bases and then some. The tm2 is an update of earlier tx models running a Core i3 processor with a 12.1 inch screen and a new touch layer on the capacitive display. HP targets these [...]
The one thing that is certain about mobile gadgets is that we’re always looking for the right accessories to go with them. One of the categories that is always up for grabs is cases. That’s certainly no different with the iPad. As well a constructed device that it is, and as pretty to look at [...]
Microsoft made the beta for Windows Live Essentials available for download yesterday, and whether or not you consider this late to the party or not, the new WLE includes a raft of social features. But then doesn’t everything include that these days? Regardless, Windows Live Essentials Beta includes updates of Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live [...]
Talking about PR gaffes. Kostas Mallios, General Manager of Live Labs at Microsoft let slip that Windows Phone 7 will launch in October 2010. But that’s not really the gaffe part. Later he called Windows Phone 7 an “ad-serving machine.” Well, he was speaking to a group of advertising folk, so consider his audience, but [...]
Call it the death grip, call it the Vulcan grip, call it what you want, but the amount of digital text flying through the Internet and yapped over the air waves on the new iPhone’s antenna issue is really amazing. There’s been all sorts of reporting on the issue from first person accounts to actual [...]
I guess this will be one for the record books anyway you look at it. After suffering from having the device exposed by a possible theft, a meltdown during the keynote debut of the device, a massive collapse of the pre-ordering system that still didn’t keep a record setting 600,000 new iPhones from being ordered, [...]
According to Slashgear, Texas Instrument will be debuting its Tablet/Slate entry this August, running on TI’s OMAP4. Texas Instruments OMAP has previously come to light as OMAP Blaze and from what I’m reading sounds pretty interesting. Slashgear is linking to SVTronics, where you can sign up to be notified when more info is available, but [...]
Some folks are getting their iPhones early, and the big media reviews are already out. Apple’s next gen operating system iOS4 is out as well. Based on what I’m reading I’m wondering if battery life isn’t going to be the story or at least one of the big stories. Several folks who have installed iOS4 [...]
Wacky and crazy. If you’ve ever followed the adventures of a new Apple gadget to delivery day, you know how trying to decipher the UPS or FEDEX messages can make you batty. Early this morning word popped out that some who pre-ordered the new iPhone (including Sumocat) would be receiving their new iPhones a day [...]
Very nice. Motion has released the J3500 Slate Tablet PC, a ruggedized entry into their lineup that in review testing seems to be not only a reliable performer but one that will give users an excellent touch and pen experience. I was fortunate enough to spend a few days with the J3500 Slate, and I’m [...]
If have an iPhone 3GS and you were caught in the craziness that was iPhone 4 ordering day and didn’t find yourself among the 600,000 who managed to get an order placed, I don’t think you need to feel rushed into trading up on the hardware. That’s after a quick look at iOS4, the new [...]
Well, at least Adobe is trying to fight back and make some noise amidst iPhone release week. They’ve just announced that they are shipping Flash 10.1 for mobile phones. Supposedly they’ve got 35 companies lined up and ready to go running the following platforms: Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone 7 Series, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian. [...]
Everybody wants a piece of the eBook action. Yesterday we saw the great price drop for the Amazon Kindle and the Nook. Today we’re seeing Borders announce the availability of its eBook reading app for the iPad and the iPhone. From what I’m reading the Borders app doesn’t come with the syncing function that we [...]
We’ve seen reports of this before, but here’s a demo of it on video captured by Robert Scoble. Called the Libretto W100, the small dual screen machine is only a prototype or concept, but a limited number of the devices will be put on sale. According to the rep, that will enable Toshiba to get [...]
Syncing data from device to device via the Cloud is certainly one of the hot mobile topics these days. There are quite a few services available, some free, some not so free, some that charge by the amount of data you wish to store, etc.. Given that I bounce from device to device, having my [...]
Trying to figure out what is what at Microsoft is sometimes nigh on near impossible. That’s certainly been true when it comes to figuring out where things are going on the mobile front, where Microsoft is decidedly behind the curve at the moment. Mary Jo Foley takes a look at how all the pieces fit [...]
We seemed to have missed any previous coverage of the Boogie Board, but it is now available for order from Amazon and other retailers. What is it? Well, at first glance it looks like a chalkboard. But it is a slate device that you can write on with the included stylus or your finger. Think [...]
Forrester Research has published some forecasting that says Tablets will outsell Netbooks by 2012. To many that will come as no surprise as we’re still eagerly awaiting the supposed “Year of the Tablet” to kick in here in 2010. But many GBM readers know we think it will be more like 2011. Regardless of when [...]
It’s time for some conversation. Yesterday some tensions that we on the GBM team think have been bubbling for awhile boiled over in the comments to this post. So, I’d like to address them. It’s not just addressing the comments, it is more about addressing the mission of GBM, how I see that mission, clearing [...]
Strange, amazing, and well, strange. Given the total breakdown of the online ordering system for Apple and AT&T’s ordering system for the new iPhone, I didn’t expect to see this news. Apparently the first allotment of the new iPhone sold out by about 4:30 ET yesterday. AT&T was out of stock earlier according to reports [...]
A leaked video of the Samsung Galaxy Tab Tablet is floating around on the Intertubes. But yet, those paying close attention are pointing out that the device in the video looks a bit different than the pictures we’ve seen so far. The device in the video is called the Galaxy Tab P1000 and it appears [...]
Masters of the obvious. Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that because Microsoft has been slow out of the chute coming up with Tablet friendly OS beyond or different than Windows 7 that OEMs like Dell and HP are looking elsewhere for software to run their tablets. Let’s see, that’s been old news for, well for some [...]
Jolicloud one of the alternative OS for mobile devices that keeps trying to edge its way into the mainstream is announcing that the new version (1.0) will support some touchscreen displays out of the box. You can read a list of the touchscreen technologies here and check out the video below.
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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