Remember when Warner posted this Solid State Drive article? Our friend James Kendrick over at jkOnTheRun.com has found this new SSD upgrade that has really sparked my interest. What you have here is the 160G Solid State Drive (SSD) by Adtron. For readers who don’t know what the big deal is, for the Tablet PC/UMPC industry, it’s all about [...]
Give me more juice! As mobile gadgeteers thirst for longer and better battery life, they often turn to third party solutions in the quest to stay powered up. And there are a number of such options available. Electrovaya’s Powerpads are just such a solution. If you’ve followed the Tablet PC scene at all you’ll know that [...]
Charging up your mobile gadgets has turned into a routine for many and a bundle of overwhelming choices for some. In my case, plugging in to charge up before I head to bed is now as routine as setting up the coffee maker. Walk into any geek’s office and you’ll see several chargers hanging off [...]
Eleksen’s fabric USB keyboards have turned a lot of heads as a mobile solution. Roll it out, hook it up, and type away. Now there is a double sided version. One side features a QWERTY keyboard, while the other sports a number pad, two D-Pads, and other keys. Aving has more pictures. Hat tip to [...]
Looking for some portable storage on the cheap and light? Check out these 2 gram USB drives from Transcend with the 1gb drive going for $15.90, and the 4gb drives going for $48.30. Via Engadget
Some fun viewing on a Friday afternoon. David Dos, of the Dos Clan, sent us this YouTube video of him and his pal stealing the HTC Athena from the HTC building. Gotta be a viral campaign, but still good. Almost as good as 24! Great stuff, David. David tells us that the name won’t be Athena [...]
My wonderful family blessed me with a black Zune for my birthday last night, and what a great gift it is. Having been an iPod user for the past three or four years, I was excited, yet nervous about trying out this new device. Much to my surprise, the install process went as smooth as [...]
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of the black and silver tablet pcs out there. It was great to see Toshiba buck the trend, and come out with a piano white R400; and to see Dialogue outfitting their FlyBook Tablet PCs with red, pink, and silver. Until more OEMs start doing things differently, [...]
Our good friend from New Zealand, Craig Pringle, has penned a great article on ink-enabling a non-Tablet Vista Notebook, noteably the Ferrari 1000. Craig uses a Wacom Inspire graphics tablet and lays out the requirements and steps to add ink to your Vista desktop or notebook installation. The great thing about Vista is that the tablet pc [...]
One of the vendors I desperately tried to get to see at CES was LCDArms. Unfortunately, time got away from us and we were not able to make it by. However, Joe Tosolt, LCD Arms Marketing Manager, showed up at the Tablet PC meetup, so I was able to get a closeup look at their EVO [...]
Electrovaya is well known for their long battery life Tablet PCs, but more known for their PowerPad batteries that can be used on a number of laptops, Tablet PCs, and accessories. Yesterday, Electrovaya announced the availability of new PowerPads – the 95 and 130. Here is their press release and a link to their website [...]
There were not any new Tablet PC products from Motion this week, but they are running a nice special this quarter if you are in the market for a LE1600 Tablet PC – free View Anywhere upgrade ( $299 value ), plus Motion Pak / OneNote ( $34.99 value ). North America Super SKU’s AB22342 – 512MB/30GB/Motion [...]
During the Tablet PC / UMPC meetup, I had an opportunity to chat with Motion Computing’s Product Manager, Michael Johnson. I knew better than to peg him about new, unannounced products ( never gets far with Motion :-) ), but I did talk with him about something of importance to current Motion Tablet PC owners [...]
Like many folks who go mobile, I rely on a docking station when I’m connected to my desk. I’ve purchased a docking station or port replicator for almost every notebook and Tablet PC I’ve ever owned to help with cable management, plugging in monitor cables, and the never-ending mess of USB cables. When I purchased [...]
I’ve written before about my love for extended displays. I’ve been using a 5 year old 20″ CRT that has been quite useful, but in the past couple of months, it has been acting up on me. So, I bit the bullet and bought a new wide-screen flat panel from Dell: the 2007WFP for $359. At 1680 [...]
James Kendrick takes a good look at the Tablet Bumpcase for the Fujitsu P1610 Tablet PC in this review at JkOnTheRun.com. Having used a bumpcase for the Motion Computing LS8000, I’ve been eyeing one for the P1610 as well. If I get one, I’ll likely opt for the for the Convertible Bumpcase, since I tend [...]
I don’t know why we have not covered this issue in an InkShow before, but pens and styluses are one of those things that you have to experiment with to find just the right one. Considering how much we interact on a screen with a pen, issues of comfort, weight, button placement, and eraser head become [...]
For all you UMPC users out there longing for GPS, this just might be the gadget for you: the Spectec SD/SDIo GPS Receiver - a 20 channel GPS tracker that fits in an SD Card slot. In addition, it has an internal slot to hold a 2 gigabyte microSD. Plug that fella in your SD equiped UMPC [...]
Battery power and going mobile go hand-in-hand, so it is a good thing to see TabletKiosk come to market with an 8 - 10 hour Powerbank that will also charge the internal battery of your mobile device (less than 65 watts). The MP3400 will power tablet pcs, ultra-mobile pcs, dvd players, camera, phones, etc, and comes [...]
As you might imagine, we get a lot of questions about what tablet pc or ultra mobile pc we would recommend purchasing, along with different accessories. Obviously, the answer is different given your needs and how you work. For example, some tablets operate better under flourescent lighting than others, others have pc card support, etc. [...]
Tis the season for Holiday Gift Guides. We’ve seen Linda Epstein’s colorful Annual Christmas List For Santa, and this morning we posted a link to TabletPCReviewSpot.com’s Gift Guide. Now jkOnTheRun has published the Third Annual Geek Holiday Gift Guide. It contains an interesting array of geek gadgets and toys like this Yoda Plush Backpack. Not [...]
A couple of interesting keyboard news items to report here. Yesterday I linked to Gear Diary where Judie is trying out thei.Tech Bluetooth Virutal Keyboard. Today she announced a contest giving away the laser wonder. You’ll need to know some science fiction to play. Check out Gear Diary for all the details. And awhile back [...]
Craig Pringle has posted a good review of the Motion LS800 Mobile Docking Station and covers the territory quite well. This docking option gives you several options for use and Craig covers them all with photos and his preference. Curious? How many GBM readers use a docking solution? I never have. Check out the review here.
This attracted a lot of attention quite awhile back as I recall. The i.Tech Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard beams a red laser disply of a keyboard on any flat surface. Folks were interested, but it seemed like it was destined for the vaporware bin. Imagine my surprise when an unboxing post by Judie on Gear Diary [...]
I’ll be honest – I rely heavily on the PC card slot on my Tablet PCs. The flexability of a PC card slot, and now Express Card slots, is something that is greatly underestimated. A quick Google search will yield you a ton of pc cards offering connectivty options, adapter solutions, etc to fit most [...]
A lot of folks have been excited for quite some time about the Optimus Keyboard. It certainly has a coolness factor with every key being a stand alone display displaying what the key does. But up until now it has been one of those promises from afar (can you say vaporware.) Then word came that [...]
GottaBeMobile.com reader and forum member Steve S has been putting the FrogPad keyboard through some in-depth testing and has released a GBM User Review of the FrogPad keyboard. As a Tablet PC user, Steve knows a thing or two about mobility, and he offers up just about everything you would want to know about this [...]
Our good friends at SlashGear.com are running a great contest, and it is totally up the “GottaBeMobile” alley. What better way to go mobile than to watch your favorite television shows from your Tablet PC or Ultra-Mobile PC streamed from your home! If you enter SlashGear.com’s contest, you could be doing just that via a SlingBox [...]
Although we do not focus a lot on mobile phones at GBM (we leave that to the experts at JkOnTheRun and Matt Miller), we love a good review and especially love a great contest. Matt Miller has written up a thorough review of the Samsung SGH-i320 Windows Mobile Smartphone and that is reason enough for you [...]
TabletKiosk.com has just announced two new bumpcases for the eo v7110 and the i7210. Having a nice bumpcase to protect the investment is a smart idea. I really like the straps in the back. I’d love to see a hinge on the back so the eo can be propped up while it is in the bumpcase. They [...]
Kevin Tofel has picked up Sierra’s Think Outside Bluetooth Keyboard and published a hands on review of this mobile accessory. For all of those bemoaning the fact that UMPCs don’t have keyboards, this looks like a very reasonable solution, especially given that it is a full keyboard. Kevin’s review is chock full of pictures that [...]
We all have our gadget bags and our Tablet PC or other mobile device that makes us mobile, but without the applications that we run every day, we are just carrying around dead weight! Software makes the solution complete, right? Well, I thought I would start sharing a few of the application tools I use [...]
If you use a PC card based EV-DO card or EV-DO phone, and don’t like to rely on public Wi-Fi hot spots, you need to take a look at this mobile accessory by Kyocera that Ed Holloway is talking about – The KR1 Mobile Router Basically, it takes your PC card and then provides a WiFi connnection to others [...]
Not a fully functioning Tablet PC, but this is a really cool ‘ink’ device. Take a look at the Aiptek My Note Digital Notepad. Write up to 135 pages of notes (you can expand this via SD card) on this ‘clipboard’. Most interesting to me is that you can take notes for up to 20 hours on 5 AAA [...]
Going mobile with a slate Tablet PC or Origami often requires that you at least have access to a keyboard for those “just in case” situations, and it certainly helps with your slate or Origami has built-in stand for those times that you need to prop up your computer. You can usually get away with just [...]
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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 [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
