Results tagged “tablet”

From Business Insider:

The Kindle Fire Is The Fruitcake Of Tablets

The best headline of the year so far.

*If you know who the Jerky Boys are, you understand my title.

I love headlines like these.

Makes me laugh.

It's bad enough your email application-less tablet is selling so poorly you have to give it multiple price slashes, but then developers jailbreak it and call it Dingleberry.

Bill Gates wants to get rural Vietnam online:

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided the donation, alongside $3.64 million worth of Microsoft software, towards a $50.6 million government initiative that is expected to provide basic computer skills and the benefits of the Internet to 760,000 people in the Southeast Asian country.

The project will see 12,070 Internet-ready computers set up at 1,900 public libraries (65 percent of the country's total) in 40 of Vietnam's most disadvantaged provinces. The price of access to the computers, which will be available for local Vietnamese to use until 2016, is varied with some free to use and others reportedly set to charge 50 percent less than typical local Internet cafe rates.

Donating software is nice, but you need hardware too. And the best form factor is the tablet, and since Microsoft still doesn't have a Windows 8 tablet on the market, I say he buy and donate some Android tablets and some iPads.

After watching the video of Gates Jory posted last week, I'm sure he totally be down with the idea.

I mean, he says it himself in the video, that tablets and technology is "no longer his area of expertise".

Do what's right, Bill.

In 1968 Alan Kay concepted the Dynabook, a device we would today consider a laptop/tablet computer.

I just got an email from HP announcing the ability to pre-order.

Aside from the phone number at the top, there is nothing clickable, save for the tiny 'Learn More' link buried at the bottom.

Honestly, who calls to pre-order their computers, or phones, or anything in today's world?

If you click on the 'Learn More' link, you're taken to this page:

And once you click on 'Reserve Now' you get this modal overlay:

I chose 'Reserve Now From HP' and I was taken to this product page:

This is what you call a complete, dead-end and the worst consumer experience you can have.

It's very evident former Apple exec Jon Rubinstein has had a huge influence on HP's product design. Experiences like this show where he hasn't had influence.

I keep rooting for HP and webOS, but Im not convinced they'll succeed.

Craig Mod starts putting some critical thinking towards the tablet page:

Tablets are in many ways just like physical books--the screen has well defined boundaries and the optimal number of words per line doesn't suddenly change on the screen. But in other ways, tablets are nothing like physical books--the text can extend in every direction, the type can change size. So how do we reconcile these similarities and differences? Where is the baseline for designers looking to produce beautiful, readable text on a tablet?

This essay looks to address these very questions. This essay also marks the release of an HTML baseline typography library for tablet reading. It's currently iPad optimized. It's called Bibliotype and the hope is for it to provide a solid base atop which we can explore. It's very rudimentary, but rudimentary is a damn fine place to start.

Electronista: Acer stalls 7-inch tablet after realizing UI is too small

Acer's decision to delay the Iconia Tab A100 may have come from learning a hard lesson from Apple, sources hinted Wednesday. The tablet was moving from its June target to either August or September as Acer had discovered that Android 3, an OS designed primarily for 10-inch tablets, wasn't working properly on a seven-inch design. With many apps not working properly, Acer was waiting in the hopes Google will have solved the problems later, Digitimes heard.

As my father and John Gruber like to say, measure twice, cut once.

The Telegraph: HP talks up forthcoming Touchpad tablet

Speaking at a press conference in Cannes, Mr Cador said that "In the PC world, with fewer ways of differentiating HP's products from our competitors, we became number one; in the tablet world we're going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus." Apple's iPad is currently the best-selling tablet around the world.

One plus?

What are we, five years old?

Just put something on shelves already.

NYTimes: Acer's Iconia Is the Craziest Laptop of All Time

Sometimes engineers get excited about things without stopping to ask the question: Why? Why is this better? Why would anyone want this?

Such questions, it would appear, were not asked in the labs of Acer. Its latest offering, the Iconia, is one of the most bizarre products to ever make it to production. The Iconia, when closed, looks like a laptop. When opened, however, all is revealed: the Iconia is actually two 14-inch touchscreens joined at a hinge.

I love engineers, they're completely brilliant, and most of the time also completely impracticable.

Cisco plans an Android-based business tablet:

...will offer multiple networking capabilities, keyboard and mouse support, and the ability to do videoconferencing. Cisco says it will cost less than $1,000, or about the same as an iPad. The Cius will come with a front-facing high-definition video camera that can record 720p video at 30 frames per second and a 5-megapixel camera at the back that can capture high-quality video and still images. Users will be able to engage in live video calls [most likely via WebEx] when the tablet is docked or being held. Some units will be available this fall, though general availability is not expected until early 2011.

This is what I hate about the tech press. Outside of the subtitle, no where in the original article that Slashdot is paraphrasing do they mention the iPad. Everyone loves to instigate a good fight don't they?

"Hey Apple, Cisco was talking about your mother."

Next big headline will be something along the lines of, "Cisco Declares Tablet War on Apple".

Someone also needs to mention to Slashdot the iPad is a consumer product, and what Cisco has announced is a business product, so unless Cisco plans on integrating media consumption and gaming applications, I don't see competitive factors (Unless, and this is crazy talk, the iPad also appeals to business people).