Many companies are catching tablet fever and have started looking for ways to increase productivity or simplify workflows with tablets. Some companies like SAP are doing this with consumer tablets like the iPad, but others are opting for more rugged solutions. The iPad’s success is benefiting enterprise-grade tablet makers such as TabletKiosk, MobileDemand, DAP Technologies and Xplore. The iPad is the most popular [...]
Had a great Thanksgiving yesterday. Good food, good company. Good music too thanks to Pandora streaming from my iPhone via Bluetooth to an Anycom FIPO adapter connected to a Bose stereo. Makes me wonder we’ll get Bluetooth standard on more stereos.
It’s great that Steve Ballmer is getting people fired up about Windows 7 slates and that Microsoft is promoting the concept at their Worldwide Partner Conference. A lot of people seem very excited at the prospect of a slate running Windows 7. Here’s an idea: if you’re excited about Windows 7 slates, why not buy [...]
Taking a mental health day (actually a “my leave doesn’t rollover” day) and after taking care of some errands, I came home to get some work done and put a missed episode of CSI: New York on in the background. I didn’t initially like this flavor of CSI, calling it “CSI: Boring” but they’ve since [...]
With everyone drooling over as-yet non-existent slate tablets and buzzing about multi-touch input, you’d think an ACTUAL slate tablet with multi-touch input would be the talk of the town. Yet somehow, the Sahara NetSlate a230T from TabletKiosk managed to fly in under the radar without a peep over its multi-touch input capability. At first glance, [...]
Sumocat blogged about TabletKiosk’s TufTab earlier today, providing specs and an overview of it. I just got a chance to get my hands on one at IDF 2009 and recorded a quick video of it with Intel’s Steve Allen. The TufTab can be dropped onto concrete from up to four feet and keep ticking. It’s [...]
Courier may be the top tablet story of the day, but it’s not alone. Straight from TabletKiosk comes the announcement of two new UMPCs featuring dual-mode pen+touch digitizers and Intel Atom processors. Shipping in October, the eo a7330D and eo TufTab a7230XD are being billed as “the only 7-inch Ultra-Mobile PCs to feature an auto-switching [...]
Netbooks are turning the mobile computing world upside down. With their low price and diminutive size, most everyone is doing a double-take when looking at what their next computer should be. Businesses on a tight budget are no different, and as I can attest to with my own clients, netbooks are getting some serious attention. [...]
With President Obama focusing in on the healthcare industry, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that companies like TabletKiosk, TegaTech, Panasonic, and Motion Computing have the right product at the right time. TabletKiosk’s own MediSlate MCA i1040XT Tablet PC underwent a very thorough review, and the folks at DigitalReviews came away quite impressed. [...]
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 — plus provide decent battery life and a rugged design! Check out [...]
TabletKiosk just showed off their new 15†Sahara slate kiosk featuring a 3M capacitive touch digitizer. This is a mountable solution, has a 1.06 Celeron processor, 4GB of ram. It is a beast — good thing it is designed to be mountable.
TabletKiosk’s eo TuffTab is undergoing a complete redesign: Intel Atom 1.6 ghz, 2gb ram, gps, dual hot-swappable batteries, pcmcia slot, GOBI. Shipping in May. More pictures after the break.
TabletKiosk’s redesigned i7300 7†ultra-mobile pc will feature a auto-sensing Wacom active digitzer and touch — the only 7†active digitizer on the market. In addition, it will now feature a Intel Atom 1.6 ghz processor and dual hot-swappable battery. With both batteries, TabletKiosk’s report a 9 hour battery life. digitizer The eo i7300 will [...]
Just got out of a meeting with TabletKiosk where they showed off their new MediSlate MCA. The screen is resistive touch, has dual hot-swappable batteries, and runs an Intel Atom processor. It’ll be available to order in the middle of January, shipping end of January, no pricing available at this point. Here some pictures. TabletKiosk [...]
Thanks to vendors like Lenovo, Motion Computing, Allegiance Technology Partners, HP, and TabletKiosk for keeping us well stocked with review units so we can tell you all about their mobile solutions.
Gail Levy of TabletKiosk has an interesting post about the UMPC is Dead meme. Her point is a good one. UMPCs may in fact be well on their way out as a consumer device, but she still sees some life in the 7 inch Tablet PC form factor. From her perspective within TabletKiosk, they are [...]
In true artist fashion, Chad Essley has reviewed the popular Sahara i440D Tablet PC from Tablet Kiosk. I really like his fresh approach to reviews. Coming from an artist who places a high value on the pen and the digitizer, you’ll find this review very, very helpful and entertaining. This morning, as I sleepily wombled [...]
What’s going on of late in the Tabletscape? Rob and Warner take an inventory of what we’ve seen lately (or not) from the various Tablet PC OEMs, and also discuss what we might or might not see coming up in the month’s ahead. They also spend some time talking about Rob’s issues with Dell and [...]
As I continue my review of the GETAC/TabletKiosk G840XT, this post is going to focus on the integrated GPS reciever that is built into the unit. Though we had some initial doubts, the GPS proved to be a solid performer for data collection while being tested out in the field. Some background: Normally when out [...]
Many of our readers are looking to get in to a tablet pc for the very first time. As one might expect, the terrain can be a little difficult to navigate. Tablet PC 101 will be a periodic primer series focused on the basics of Tablet PCs. While this is just a primer series, I’d [...]
Over the past few weeks the GETAC has seen some real action out in the field. This rugged unit from TabletKiosk appeared to be a great unit for our field work and it was in my hands at the right time! We used the G840XT as a little experiment to see if it would be [...]
TabletKiosk is forging into the event and management space via their new partner, Dean Evans & Associates (DEA). From their press release: TabletKiosk ®, a leader in Tablet PC and mobile computing solutions, is pleased to welcome Dean Evans & Associates (DEA), a leading developer of facility and resource scheduling and shared workspace management software [...]
It’s been a while since I have talked about the G840XT from TabletKiosk that I have been evaluating, but that’s about to change this week The unit has seen a lot of action but it hasn’t been here in the office — it’s been in action out in the dirt and rain! For two weeks, [...]
TabletKiosk is making it easier for their Linux owners to get needed updates. The Mobility Matters blog has all the details, but here is a quick run down: Our project manager in Germany has recently updated our Linux images and new applications (tkcontrol menu, hrw, drivers) on www.tabletkiosk.de for use with our slate tablet PCs. [...]
Gail Levy on Mobility Matters is blogging about TabletKiosk’s recently concluded Sales Team meeting. TabletKiosk has added some new members to its growing team but it also looks like we may see some interesting developments coming in 2009. According to Gail’s notes TabletKiosk will be jumping from 6 Tablet SKUs to 10 Tablet SKUs in 2009. [...]
I have a fun weekend ahead of me with this one! We bought one of those large wooden swings sets for my daughter, and guess who gets to put it together… Yep, that will be my weekend. Of course, it will all be worth it when she sees the final product!! How does this relate [...]
TabletKiosk is breaking out the paint brushes and introducing one-of-a-kind color tablet pcs! These special color tablet pcs will be available for auction via TabletKiosk’s website sporadically throughout the year. Unfortunately, the first of the bunch, a bright red one, has already been claimed by Martin Smekal, TabletKiosk president. Come on, Martin – where’s the [...]
I love it when companies think outside the box, especially when it comes to usability. TabletKiosk’s new extended battery for their Sahara i400 Tablet PC not only gives a total of 8 hours of battery life to the slate, but also features a detachable stand to help when you just gotta whip out the keyboard [...]
Interesting story from SeekingAlpha.com about some strange financial transactions occurring at the lawsuit-happy Typhoon Touch Technologies. James Shepard, the founder and CEO of Typhoon, sold 58% of the ownership back to the company on July 1 – for assets worth less than $64,000. As the author, Larry Harris, rightly points out, of all the people [...]
At CES 2008, we brought you some of the first news about TabletKiosk’s new eo i7300 Ultra-Mobile PC. As many might have noticed, the new eo has been noticeably absent from TabletKiosk’s site. I contacted TabletKiosk’s Gaily Levy to get the latest on when we might expect this new modular-based UMPC. For the eo i7300, [...]
Our Talk To OEM mini-series has been quite successful. You wouldn’t believe the emails and correspondence I’m getting from the OEMs based on the feedback you are sharing. Now, it is time for TabletKiosk, the folks behind the successful Sahara Slate Tablet PC and eo UMPC. What are your impressions of TabletKiosk and their products? [...]
I have been going over the TabletKiosk G840XT for a while now and have been pretty happy with what I have seen so far!. The unit still feels really light for a rugged unit, that’s for sure! I didn’t think I would like the ‘number pad’ at first, but after having it on the unit, [...]
When you don’t have what you need, some of us create it for ourselves. That’s what harakan, a GBM Forum user, has done with the Vista Tablet Button driver on the TabletKiosk Sahara i440D Tablet PC. As the standard Tablet Button driver provided by TabletKiosk for Vista is pretty limited, I have put together a [...]
This shortcut I am taking a quick overview of the TabletKiosk GETAC G840XT Rugged unit. In the video, I go over the specs of the unit that was sent to me to review. After the specs, we take a look at the outside of the unit – ports, pen, buttons and feel. I am currently [...]
I have been playing with the TabletKiosk GETAC G840XT for a week or so and thought I would put up some of my initial thoughts. Very solid feel Light for being so tough – or at least ‘feels’ light to me GPS works good for being integrated and without an antenna (I have some video [...]
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