This is quite intriguing. On the blog Multi-faceted Refractions, the author, vvrotny, has posted his notes from a recent Tablet PC Roundtable that was held at the Lake Forest Country Day School. There is also a link to more notes and findings from the roundtable on a wiki. Both offer interesting glimpses into what those who [...]
Two things here. First, how does Steve (Chippy) Paine find the time. Second, this sounds like quite an experiment. We all look for mobile power and charging solutions that help us when we are on the road. Well, Steve is prepping for a week long bike tour of South Germany and he’s not taking power [...]
Fellow Tablet PC MVP Linda Epstein has posted a review of the HP tx1000 Entertainment Tablet PC on Tablet PC2.com. In case you don’t recall, this Tablet PC is powered by the AMD Turion 64 x2 Dual-Core chip. Her review confirms my suspcisions from my limited experience with it at CES. It is an intriguing [...]
PCAuthority.com has a good article on Intel embracing Linux in its move to Mobile Internet Devices. Personally speaking, I think this is a good thing all the way around, and solidifies the UMPC as a device for the future. Regardless of the OS, the consumer is going to be the winner in this whole deal. [...]
So here is the story: I was going up in Chicago for my ‘day job’ and remembered the post of GBM Team member Warner getting his training wheels on a Segway… He had met up with GBM forum member Skip while on holiday over his Christmas vacation. So I decided , the day before I [...]
Today’s InkShow is an extension of the InkShow from a couple of weeks ago on PhatPad. The last Show was an overview of using PhatPad on the TabletPC specifically. This InkShow is going to cover using the Phatpad application on a Pocket PC Device, Treo 750, and syncing the notes with a Tablet PC. With this InkShow, I have given [...]
News of the Kohjinsha Ultra-Mobile PC has been popping up recently, with word now coming out that it is available in the U.S. through Data Evolution Corporation. They have branded the Kohjinsha as the Cathena CX, and list prices starting at $799. We’ve got a voice mail in to the Data Evolution offices inquiring about [...]
I’ve been chronicling my experiences with Vista and the Asus R2H (links provided at the end of this article) and along the way been corresponding with a number of other lovers of the bleeding edge who are trying the same thing. David Maiden is one of those users. (Maybe it could be said that misery [...]
Interested in a Ultra-Mobile PC? Not sure which direction to go? Need some help figuring out which device might or might not fit your needs? Check out the UMPC Buyers Guide now published at The UMPC Portal. Steve Paine has done quite a job laying out the ins and outs of everything from processor choice [...]
Ok, we can cover Tablet PCs and Ultra-Mobile PCs, but we can’t do math. This is GottaBeMobile.com Podcast #15. Or so says Rob (does he do our books?) so we’ll take his word for it. And in case you are wondering, no Koala Bears were harmed in the recording of this podcast. In any regard this [...]
A nice package arrived today. A pre-production model of the Gateway E155C Convertible Tablet PC arrived for me to review and I’m blogging away on it right now. It is running Vista Ultimate. Early impression is that this Tablet PC has a lot to offer. I’ll be doing an InkShow look at this new Tablet PC [...]
Cue up “Groundhog Day”. It looks like Lenovo has finally decided to make Core 2 Duo an official option for the X60 Tablet PC. As everyone might remember, on April 3, we broke the news ( thanks to one of our forum members ), that Lenovo was offering the 1.5ghz Core 2 Duo processor option [...]
Flicks are a new Vista feature that allow you to navigate documents or change data using only your stylus. So you may ask, what’s the difference between a gesture and a flick. There are only eight flicks available. Up, Down, Left, Right, and of course, the four diagonals and they are not bound by the [...]
I love the tubes that make up the Internets. You always learn something new and it is a good day when you learn something new. Ed Bott has been running a very good series of Vista How To’s over the last month or so. In Vista Hands On #16, he talks about managing System Restore [...]
William, one of the new writers at Student Tablet PC, has an interesting article on using Microsoft Office Groove to sync documents between computers. Syncing is always a topic of considerable debate among mobile and multiple pc users as everyone searches for the Holy Grail of syncing. I personally have not checked out Groove at [...]
Ok, here’s a new one. I and others have remarked about the very lackluster and often unimaginative naming conventions companies come up with for their Ultra-Mobile PCs. (Q1, Q1P, R2H, etc…. and let’s not even mention the class name switch from the codename Origami to Ultra-Mobile PC.) If you’d like to correct that perhaps here’s [...]
An interesting short interview with Steve Ballmer showing off the HTC Shift. Via jkkmobile
Motion Computing has released a case study on one of its’ customers, Gaz Métro Plus , and it is a facinating read on how one company used Tablet PC technology to improve their logistical efficiencies. Through reading the case study, I also became aware of a software company I hadn’t seen before: ClickSoftware. ClickSoftware specializes [...]
More info is becoming available in drips and drabs on Fujitsu’s Ultra-Mobile PC. TabletPCReviewSpot picked up this info from HardSpell along with the accompanying picture. I’m guessing that is a promotional rendering. Intel Sealey processor 1GB memory 40GB hard disk SD reader 2 cameras 5.6-inch (1024 x 600) display Equipped with two core battery [...]
Today’s question of the day in Tablet/UMPC land comes from Rob Bushway. If you had the opportunity to sit down for a meeting with Microsoft’s Mobile PC Team, what would you say? Perhaps it is a bit broad, so let’s but some context to it. Vista is out. Microsoft is obviously looking ahead. There is no [...]
jkkmobile has posted a quick peak (very quick) at Fujitsu’s entry into the Ultra-Mobile PC market. Interesting that whoever is demoing this calls it a “mini-convertible.” >
xThink, the makers of the popular ink based products Calculator and MathJournal, recently announced how their products are spreading in use over in Croatia. From their press release: Those who watch xThink’s worldwide progress are aware of xThink’s activity in Croatia (especially if they speak Croatian!). Since late 2006, xThink has been building a partnership with [...]
Are you experiencing excessive hard drive thrashing under Vista? Folks have been complaining about and trying to track down the reason this occurs. There have been a number of suggestions for the culprit including Windows SuperFetch routines, SVCHost issues, excessive disk fragmentation and others. James Kendrick mentioned it awhile back in this post and more [...]
Remember pictures of this intriguing looking device from Samsung? Well, the today’s popular ultra mobile gadget site, Clipset.net, once again offers up more video eye candy to check out. Via Ultra Mobile PC Tips.
I love to see artists who are using Tablet PCs to create as I think the platform is more than a natural fit for that kind of creative talent. Antonia Burns is Virginia artist who recently (last year according to this article) discovered the “fun of drawing directly on a tablet computer, which allows me [...]
Here’s a question that I’d like to see answered by someone smarter than me. There is a lot of excitement over the news from the Intel Developers Forum about Linux being used as an OS on the new Ultra-Mobile PC platform. So, will they be able to run this kind of touchscreen experience using Beryl? [...]
Well, maybe this clears up some confusion and maybe it doesn’t. News about the Kohjinsha SAF100 has been bouncing around for awhile. In fact, Engadget even included it in their Tablet PC Awards polling much to the dismay of anyone who follows the Tabletscape, seeing that it previously didn’t have either an active digitzer or [...]
PhatPad 4.2 has been released. There are no major changes to the application – mostly bug fixes and performance improvements. The big change for this version?? This new release is now a Vista Certified program!! You can check out the PhatPad InkShow from a few weeks ago, and also look tomorrow for another InkShow on PhatPad. This time, [...]
Learn more about using ArtRage on a Tablet PC and Ultra-Mobile PC by attending today’s Microsoft’s webcast series on UMPC and Tablet PC software, which is under way. Learn more about the weekly webcast series and watch previously recorded webcasts here. Next week’s webcast is on iGuidance, a navigation system for your Tablet PC and [...]
In my last How-To I referred to changing your indexing options as a way to improve battery life. That got me to feeling like I really did not completely understand the Vista indexing service enough. Well, I did some homework and discovered a few things that might be of value to some of our GottaBeMobile.com [...]
ClipSet has some great footage of Samsung’s newest UMPC, the Q1 Ultra. It is very nice to see an included SD card slot, and that keyboard looks very usable to me, much like my Motorola Q SmartPhone. Having used both the TabletKiosk ei i7210 and the Samsung Q1P, I can definitely see myself transitioning to [...]
The City of Corvallis, Oregon, has gone Tablet PC with its building permit process. Applications and payment in the process can now be done 24 hours a day. Designed to eliminate paperwork and save time and money, the on-line process allows residents to monitor the status of projects. With the new PC tablets, inspection reports [...]
They’ve been on the hunt for awhile, but it looks like mission accomplished. Tracy Hooten has announced that the Student Tablet PC has added three new authors to their excellent roster of writers. The new authors are: Will Martin Frank Gaeta Robert Burdock Congrats to the new team members and to the Student Tablet PC.
Well, well, well. We’ve know for some time that Apple’s iTunes and Microsoft Vista have had some problems. Version 7.1 was supposed to have taken care of most of them, (although Vista users are still encouraged to disconnect their iPod from inside of iTunes and not through the Safely Disconnect command from the Task Tray.) [...]
James Kendrick got his hands on some potentially intriguing info from an anonymous source (the only space with more anonymous sources than politics is the tech space.) His source offers some possible specs for what we’ve all been hearing about a possible Tablet PC from Dell. Here’s a snippet on the specs from jkOnTheRun: Dell will release [...]
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