While I wait for my (6 hour) delayed flight here in Frankfurt it’s probably worth putting some text down about how the Tab has performed today, a day of snow, cold and cancellations. Unplugged at about 10am today the Tab was fully charged and performed its first duty by giving me the time of the next bus the the main station. From that point onvit’s been non-stop tabbing. My day has been turned upside down and the Tab has been the hub of my communications. Emails to family and customers […]

Now that the N350 has gone back to Samsung, I’m back on the Gigabyte Touchnote for a 5-day trip to London and Berlin starting tomorrow. 1.4kg + battery pack is not the lightest but it will last all day and, very importantly, has proven itself a stable, reliable companion; so much so that i’m being very careful about changing it.  The Runcore SSD and 2GB RAM upgrade was the right choice but looking to 2011 and possible 720p video editing (480p is the compormise I currently make for mobility) something […]

Customer satisfaction during product purchase and ownership is a complex science and I wouldn’t suggest for a moment that I know a lot about it. Personally I can get very upset if a product fails to deliver on marketing promises and wildly passionate if a product does more than expected. That’s something I keep out of my reviews though and I always aim to project my thoughts from various target customer scenarios. On a personal note though, the Galaxy Tab experience has been extremely positive for me and I’ve spoken […]

It’s hard to believe that the iPhone launched without an application store but it did. If you’ve lived with ‘apps’ for any length of time you’ll appreciate the advantages and probably won’t want to go back to a place without an integrated app store right? Discovery Try-and-Buy Unified Billing Discussion / Comment / Sharing Developer opportunity (money, fame!) Diversity / Niche applications Device Customisation Application control and conformity Centralised security checks One-stop-shop Competition / Comparison of similar applications 3rd-party Curation Yes, apps have been around for a long time but […]

It’s hard to believe that the iPhone launched without an application store but it did. If you’ve lived with ‘apps’ for any length of time you’ll appreciate the advantages and probably won’t want to go back to a place without an integrated app store right? Discovery Try-and-Buy Unified Billing Discussion / Comment / Sharing Developer opportunity (money, fame!) Diversity / Niche applications Device Customisation Application control and conformity Centralised security checks One-stop-shop Competition / Comparison of similar applications 3rd-party Curation Yes, apps have been around for a long time but […]

Thanks to nick95 in our forums we now have an official spec sheet on the Ocosmos OCS1 that we covered at IDF in September. The OCS1 was one of the first Oaktrail products we’d seen and definitely, a UMPC! [Tracking page includes links and videos] 5 inch Slider screen at 1024×768 looks useful but those controllers don’t include a mouse pointer which, especially on a Win 7 device with capacitive screen, is not going to help. Interestingly, Ocosmos are pitching this at carriers although to be honest, every UMPCs manufacturer’s […]

A few weeks ago I was invited to talk on the Freelance Advisor Podcast. The topic was mobile computing and productivity my favorite subject! I answer questions from host  Andy White about the ‘cloud’ , Google Docs, Android, collaboration, iOS, MiFi and limitations. Check it out here. (Scroll down past the transcript for the embedded player and download link.)

Chippy has already unboxed and live reviewed the Viewsonic Viewpad 7 [tracking page] and although its not quite the Samsung Galaxy Tab it is a viable and cheaper alternative. Well if you’re on an even tighter budget you may want to look at the identically spec’d Linx Commtiva N700 which is a full £100 cheaper than the £400 Viewpad 7. It still comes with the same lowly Qualcomm MSM7227 600 Mhz  CPU and 7 inch 800 x 480 resolution capacitive touch display, but it also has Android 2.2, 3G connectivity […]