John Tokash wrote a piece about his experience at Maker Faire with the Samsung Q1, TabletKiosk eo, and the Founder MiniNote on his [url=http://blog.tokash.org/2006/04/22/my-first-umpc-hands-on-experience/]blog [/url]
Some bulleted points from his entry were:
* All 3 devices seemed responsive and not sluggish at all during my interactions.
* The Touch Pack program launcher is very pleasant.
* DialKeys will take some getting used to, but I think it will be only slightly less usable than the treo keyboard.
* Attendees seemed a little skeptical, but impressed.
* The Founder ultra mobile PC is really thin compared to the Samsung and eo.
* I agree with JK when he says that you can rest your hand on the screen without it interfering with your writing. That’s nice!
* The screen zooming is faster than I expected and much more readable than I expected, although several control panels (touch optimizations, system) become blank grey windows at the scaled 1024 resolution.
* Browsing the web with the ultra mobile PC form factor was great.
* I like the touch point mouse embedded in the eo. I’m guessing that some old DirectX full screen games won’t respond well to the touch screen, so an external mouse or a touch point is going to be useful in those cases. The Samsung doesn’t have a similar feature.
John and I also talked a little bit about the convention on the origamiportal irc channel on the server irc.cored.net channel name #origamiportal, so stop on by there and there may be some conversations going on about it.
Original Link at [url=http://blog.tokash.org/2006/04/22/my-first-umpc-hands-on-experience/]blog.tokash.org[/url]
