People use tools all the time that aren’t really designed for the job. A weekend painter uses a board across a couple of chairs as makeshift scaffolding. A do-it-yourself woodworker uses a hand sander instead of a power sander. In some cases, people just try to make do with what they have. In others, people [...]
People excited about the possibilities of Windows 8 are already saying the iPad 3/iPad HD better watch its back because Microsoft finally has a killer OS. I’m gonna need people to step back and calm down with that talk and think about that comparison for a minute.
Our favorite rumor site is up to it again. This time Digitimes is getting everyone all excited about the next version of Android: 5.0 nicknamed Jelly Bean. However, as Android Central points out, neither the name nor the version number is even official. And a lot of the rumors on offer are pretty obvious or [...]
In addition to working with Microsoft on Windows Phone 7 on its smartphone lineup, Nokia is said to have already begun work on developing a Windows 8 tablet running Microsoft’s desktop OS that borrows a lot of visual design elements from the Windows Phone 7 OS. According to Russian tech blogger and famed Nokia leaker [...]
No support for current Windows applications. Office is still desktop-only. Windows on ARM (WOA) is a compromised “no-compromise experience” at a time when Microsoft needs to show more strength.
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 [...]
With Microsoft’s camp relatively silent regarding the next version of the Office suite for Windows, there is now some speculation that Office 15 will not be fully touch-optimized as intended. The reasoning behind that, according to sources to The Verge, is that Microsoft is battling time and resources constraint. Instead of a full UI lift [...]
AT CES 2012 we caught up with Mike Stinson, the Vice President of Marketing for Motion Computing, a Tablet PC manufacturer known for rugged and work friendly tablets. We’ve looked at how company’s like SAP are expanding tools and deploying Android tablets and the iPad into the Enterprise segment, but sometimes a consumer tablet just won’t cut [...]
Yesterday Google released an update to its iOS GMail App that brought new features like vacation responders, different signatures for mobile emails and scribbling. I’ll talk about the scribbling part in a second. When I posted about the App release yesterday I wasn’t seeing the little gear icon that allowed you to access some of [...]
One of the highlights of each Christmas season is when Linda Epstein publishes her Annual List for Santa on TabletPC2.com. You might not think there’s much to choose from for Tablet PC lovers, but Linda and Santa will prove you wrong. The list is full of great gadgets and gear and yes it does include [...]
Bigger, better, blottier. Our own Warner Crocker has thrown out all boundaries of breadth and length in this year’s Life on the Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards, his annual look back on the “achievements” of the year in tech, web, and culture.
While consumer interest has recently shifted in favor of slates, Gigabyte still has convertible tablet lovers covered with its latest Booktop T1132N. Unfortunately, though, pricing isn’t available at this time, but the T1132N should prove to be a portable, productive chameleon tablet that can change form factors depending on how you want to use your [...]
Bloomberg reports that Samsung’s head of PC sales and marketing said in an interview that the company is targeting the second half of 2012 for a Windows 8 tablet launch, and it will probably be a mod of their current Series 7 slate.
Robert Scoble, among many things, was once one of the biggest Tablet PC evangelists out there. He worked with NEC and then moved over to Microsoft and did his best to push the cause. That’s history, and then I guess this little voice rant is as well. Scoble is pushing out some audio messages using [...]
After lukewarm success with the Slate 500 to the enterprise market, it was believed that HP would be putting all of its efforts into webOS to make the TouchPad a success. However, given that the well received webOS software has not gained traction in the marketplace, it appears that HP is reversing course and is [...]
Dell took the semi-transparent lid off their new Windows 7 slate, the Latitude ST, today and it’s already been reviewed.
Following news that the Dell Latitude ST is on the way comes a marketing video from Dell showing the advantages of this Windows 7 slate. No surprise, it’s not targeted at consumers.
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang calls Microsoft Office “the killer app” for ARM-based Windows tablets and claims a new version for that purpose would be “wonderful”. After ten years of not having a tablet-centric version of Office, I’d call it “miraculous.”
Just received a tip from Giacomo at il Tablet PC Italico that Dell will launch a new Windows 7 slate next month, dubbed the Latitude ST. He’s not at liberty to share specs, but previous leaks have us covered on that. Maybe.
Chippy at UMPCPortal has shared his view on the Windows 8 Metro UI in a tablet in words, as well as a video to demonstrate specifically the problems it faces with portrait oriented usage.
Back in the days of the original Tablet PC (yeah, that seems so long ago) just about everyone who had experienced what Tablet PCs offered could be heard (or read) saying that to see the real future of these devices all you had to do was put one in the hands of a child. When [...]
According to DigiTimes, Motorola will be shipping two new Motorola Xoom’s in Q4 of this year. The device that will be shipping in November is going to be a 8.2-inch Xoom (the report states 7-inches but that’s likely wrong) while the larger 10.1 model shipping a month later in December. We got our first real [...]
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Social media listening service Mashwork has been listening to the buzz around Windows 8 and has turned that noise into a new infographic showing us what people are saying about Windows 8, particularly on tablets and how it compares to the competition.
DRS Technologies has announced two new partners for its line of ARMOR Windows-based rugged tablets: Rugged Notebooks, Inc. and Solzon Corporation.
Last Friday, Amazon sent out press invites for an event scheduled for this Wednesday, September 28th, an event that was rumored to be the launch pad for Amazon’s Android tablet plans. Well, according to TechCrunch, Amazon will indeed be announcing an Android tablet this Wednesday and it will be called the ‘Kindle Fire.’ And while [...]
Quite a few days have passed since CES 2011 but that hasn’t stopped Asus from finally releasing the hybrid tablet, the Asus Eee Pad Slider, in the United States, a tablet that it introduced all the way back at the gadget conference in January. The release has been marred with delays and frustration from consumers [...]
We know that Motorola is expected to release two new tablets before the end of the year, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha confirmed it, but we haven’t seen anything substantial leak out . We’ve heard rumors of a Motorola Xoom 2 and Motorola’s CEO also hinted at a 7-inch tablet and the latter of the [...]
Under the guidance of Steve Jobs, and other key Apple employees, the iPhone has made a huge mark on the smartphone and consumer electronic market. By daring to go against the grain, ditching a keyboard and going with a large touchscreen, Apple changed the face of smartphones. This is quite evident in the fast evolution of Android [...]
Several sites are reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in a Q&A at this year’s Financial Analyst Meeting, has hinted positively at Microsoft Office in the Windows 8 Metro interface. Only one problem: he didn’t.
Of all the touch features in Windows 8, the one I feel is most valuable is also the least dazzling. “Fuzzy hit targeting” as it was called earlier this year enables wide fingers to more accurately work with an interface designed for pinpoint cursors. But how does it work? Long Zheng at istartedsomething explains. The [...]
Not that we don’t already know Windows can run on AMD processors, but in the interest of fairness, here’s a video from Engadget featuring an Acer Iconia Tab W500 and MSI WindPad 110W running Windows 8 on AMD processors.
It seems screen orientation on Windows 8 tablets will not be as rigidly landscape as I’d expected. Tom Warren at WinRumors has a one minute video with his Windows 8 slate showing screen rotation.
As people digest what we saw of Windows 8 at BUILD yesterday, folks are questioning whether Windows on tablets is the wrong approach to take on the iPad. I think they have a shot, but only if the shift in tactics goes all the way because their strategy, the one in place since before the [...]
Microsoft has ambitious hopes and dreams for Windows 8, its next computing platform that’s designed not only to compete with the rising popularity of Apple’s mobile iPad tablet and the plethora of ARM-based Android slates, but also to mark the next generation of PC computing in a post-PC world. With declining PC sales, due in [...]
Samsung’s Series 7 Slate PC is being handed out at Microsoft’s Build conference today, but I had a chance to play with the hardware a couple of weeks ago at IFA 2011 and it isn’t anywhere close to being ready to compete with the iPad and its Android counterparts. All the chatter around Microsoft’s next [...]
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