Do you use the Print To OneNote driver that is installed with OneNote 2007?I do all the time. Whether you do, or have yet to discover this great tool, you should check out Kathy Jacobs’ post exploring the wonders of this time saver. She covers the basics and the how’s and why’s of changing the [...]
Loren Heiny raises the question in the title of the post based on an experience sharing pictures with friends. For a number of reasons he believes he is much more likely to pass around a UMPC or slate than a convertible Tablet PC or cellphone/pda. In fact, I think if I’d performed the same queries [...]
Other interesting news that broke heading into the holiday weekend was news of the super thin Intel Metro notebook. This has a lot of folks really excited. That’s not the reason for imbedding this video though. Towards the end of the video you’ll see a Samsung Q1 with a prototype SideShow device (although it doesn’t [...]
Looking a lot like a commerical T3TV has a video of the Medion Ultra-Mobile PC that might we worth a look see if you are interested in this sliding keyboard device. Via Moble Magazine >
Fellow Tablet PC MVP Linda Epstein of TabletPC2.com says that if battery life is one of your priorities in looking at the Ultra-Mobile PC form factor you should take a look at the Samsung Q1B which is powered by the Via Processor. She’s run a couple of tests and posted her results and you might be [...]
A lot of folks have their eye on Nokia when it comes to small ultra mobile devices. And this little grab from a patent filing sure looks interesting. Apparently that is a dual touch screen with a detachable keyboard. Remove the keyboard and use both screens as one display. No real hard info here, and [...]
Writing from my dream world feeling cool as I ink on my Tablet PC with a digital pen. Maybe it will get some attention. After all that’s what Daryl D is craving with his post about pen and paper working better than Tablet PCs. At first I thought this was a clever link bait parody but then [...]
Last I checked my 2007 calendar still had just over six months to go and there are quite a few new gadgets scheduled to be released in those six months. No matter, PC World obviously operates on a different time frame in naming their 100 Best Products of 2007. They cast a wide net covering [...]
I hadn’t seen this publicized until last night and since the contest started in April I find that a bit bizarre, so here’s hoping we can get the word out more here. Samsung and Microsoft are sponsoring a competition that can benefit the school of your choice and you. Here’s the details: To enter the Samsung [...]
In our latest GBM podcast and in countless other posts the GBM Guys rant a bit about the complete lack of imagination that OEMs have when it comes to naming their very cool Tablet PCs and UMPCs. Although I’m not sure about the viability of calling the very unsexily named FMV-U8240 “the Poogie StormTrooper,” there [...]
Must read alert. Must read alert. After getting a taste of the the new Intel UMPC platform, Loren Heiny has put together a fantastic wish list for what he’d like to see in the future for Ultra-Mobile PCs. Big issues and small issues, he covers quite a bit of territory and, in my opinion, is right [...]
Turns out all that memory upgrade madness from last week has spread to the Asus R2H. If you recall, Kevin Tofel and others discovered that the Samsung Q1P could be upgraded by increasing the memory to 2GB. Well, that just got others with an Asus R2H fired up to give it a try as well. [...]
There is a new version of Anagram that has just been released. If you enter a lot of contact info into your PIM from emails its promise to make your life easier with a Tablet PC seem to be quite real. Anagram allows you to grab information (like contacts) and enter them directly into Outlook, Salesforce, NetSuite, [...]
If you’ve ever had to deal with the media and found the things you say taken out of context, misquoted, or even spun into a yarn that bears no resemblance to what you said (or thought you said,) you need to read Vikram Madan’s summing up post from WinHEC. Not only will his thoughts bring back [...]
At 12 noon on May 29 PC Magazine is going to host a webcast on Tablet PCs and Mobile Devices. Here is some of the info: Let PCMagCast explain the best next-generation portable computing solutions for you, with our 60-minute, interactive overview of new, easy-to-tote devices and the best applications for them. We’ll teach you [...]
Screen size and resolution are among the many personal decisions that a user must make before making that mobile purchase. On a Tablet PC, I’ve been a high-res guy since day 1. James Kendrick has posted Of screen size and resolution on Mobile PCs stating what he thinks are the current optimal resolutions for mobile [...]
Once upon a time in age of computers and in the land of Microsoft a great saying was known to one and all. To increase performance add RAM. This was known and this was done even though at times this was expensive. And then a whisper began among the wizards of Microsoft that beckoned one and [...]
Most of my weekends are spent in my office at the theatre where I work. Saturday’s are usually two show days with matinee and evening performances, and we also have Sunday matinee performances. With the administrative staff out for the weekend, I’m usually able to get a lot of work done, and also play a [...]
In continuing the “Wow” series, I’d like to turn the focus to that of OEMs. As I talked about in my first article, I feel like OEMs have been resting on their laurels the past several years. Part of why I feel that way is due to my being in the tablet pc space for 4 [...]
Well, we’ve been talking on GottaBeMobile.com for a while about the “Wow” factor being low to people in the Tablet PC arena. Rob isn’t being wowed enough to keep him happy, Warner seems to think marketing is a big issue, and for me? Well, I still love the feeling of opening any new box that [...]
If you’d like to look at more pictures of Fujitsu’s new Ultra-Mobile PC head over to jkkmobile where he’s got a slew of them posted, including a couple with the device in a docking station. I’m sure this new UMPC is going to have an impact, but I still question the exclusion of bluetooth. We’ll [...]
If you’re just dying to get your hands on the Q1 Ultra’s split keyboard you might want to start hitting F5 on CDW. Not listed as in stock yet, but CDW does have the range of new Q1 Ultra SKUs displayed on their site. Via Origami Project Forums
The Samsung Q1 is getting lots of press. Here one of the product managers of Samsung sits in with CNBC for the Power Lunch program and you get to see it a bit in action. If you didn’t read or watch the Walt Mossberg review, you can get the highlights here as well. > Via [...]
WinHEC certainly appears to be the place to be for UMPC news this week. It has been a steady stream of annoucements and such all week. Now comes news of Origami 2.0 specs: CRN’s Paul Rooney is reporting on a converesation he had with Microsoft’s Vikram Madan: “The second set of possible UMPC specifications under [...]
Oh, my. Well I’ve talked about Ultra-Mobile PCs being a great stall surfing device many times before, but Steve Paine has taken things one step further into the powder room. He’s come up with the perfect UMPC Office. I won’t spoil the fun by revealing the ultimate picture he has on UMPC Portal, but offer you [...]
InPlay Technologies is trumpeting a new pen technology called the inPEN that is designed for Tablet PCs. According to the press release: “Utilizing a microcontroller as the ‘brain’ inside the pen, we make the pen a self-sufficient, intelligent device,” said Eric Vandewater, chief technology officer for InPlay’s MagicPoint® division. “The microcontroller sends a unique digital [...]
Both Kevin Tofel and James Kendrick seem to be in upgrade frenzy mode over on jkOnTheRun. Kevin, who never saw a Samsung Q1 that he didn’t want to split open, has picked up a 2Gig stick of memory and got it working in his Q1P. jk has ordered a larger hard drive and is prepping [...]
Adding to the interesting concept PCs we’ve seen lately, Microsoft announced the winners of the Next-Gen PC Design Awards which certainly bend the mind of how we think of computer interaction. The Chairman Award winner is this fascinating touch screen device was designed by John Leung to “bring computing closer to the world’s 1.3 billion [...]
Colin Walker has shifted our attention to an interesting Microsoft Research Project that looks to hold some promise for touch interaction in the future. And of course it is intriguing that Microsoft’s Shift is being compared to Apple’s multi-touch. Go figure. The essence of Shift is to gain accuracy with touch especially when trying to [...]
Recent developments in the Ultra-Moible PC scape seem to have had an effect on a few mainstream tech media folk and they are starting to sing a slighly different tune about the smaller devices. David DeJean of Information Week has done a 180 in an article entitled, “OK, So I Was Wrong About Origami.” What [...]
“…I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn’t have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn’t come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN’T MY FAULT…” (Jake Blues) Oops, it was [...]
Warner posted this morning with specs on the new U Series Ultra-Mobile PC from Fujitsu ( courtesy of UMPCPortal.com ). Well, Fujitsu is making it all official now with their press release on this “Storm Trooper” look of a UMPC. The specs look pretty nice for a secondary computer, but what is glaringly missing is [...]
Here we go with another GBM podcast. At least here two of us go. Hugo is missing in action (for good reasons) but Dennis and Warner carry on gallantly in The Bozzo TC1000 Show. Yep, we spend a lot of time talking about Albert Bozzo’s wacky statement about Tablet PCs last week, and somehow we [...]
Microsoft’s Nick White is joining in on the battery conversation, admitting what we all know to be true, that Aero is indeed affecting battery life. Although, the percentages he quotes seem a little low IMO, it does appear we are starting to get somewhere. Nick also offers up this nice little p.s. in regards to [...]
A jkOnTheRun reader tossed them this tip. Trillian, the popular messaging client that combines a number of different services in one app, has added Ink support in the latest alpha release. It will be interesting to see how this works.
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