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Microsoft’s secret tablet, really?

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
23-09-2009
culture, objects, software, technology
Giz­modo cre­ated a post today that pro ports video of a new Microsoft tablet device.
Do we see Microsoft hav­ing to com­pete and maybe even innovate?
If we are to believe the video and images that Giz­modo has posted this is a hinged tablet that uses a styl­ist and touch­screen combined.
It is intriguing.
Why make a hinged device? Because it allows you to make a more com­pact device. It also cre­ates two infor­ma­tion spaces. A menu or selec­tion side — a finder of sorts and an active side where the inter­ac­tion with the appli­ca­tion takes place. It could work but, the hinge has been the death of many a lap­top. It doesn’t thrill me.
Con­sumer hokey.
I also see the jour­nal con­cept with the same dis­taste as Time Machine’s sci-fi graph­ics. Is the tablet a con­sumer device? Is it really just a big­ger smarter iPhone?
A sty­lus.
A sty­lus is an inter­est­ing addi­tion. How­ever we can’t write as fast as we can type. Will the hand­writ­ing recog­ni­tion be good?
I had an early Palm and before that the much more inter­est­ing New­ton. Can this new pad or Apple’s really change com­put­ing as much as the orig­i­nal PDA? Apple cre­ated a new plat­form with the iPhone. Can they extend it’s power in a new tablet. I can’t wait to see what Apple has to offer.
Who will make the next dom­i­nant device?
Giz­modo cre­ated a post today that pro ports video of a new Microsoft tablet device.
Do we see Microsoft hav­ing to com­pete and maybe even innovate?
If we are to believe the video and images that Giz­modo has posted this is a hinged tablet that uses a styl­ist and touch­screen combined.
It is intriguing.
Why make a hinged device? Because it allows you to make a more com­pact device. It also cre­ates two infor­ma­tion spaces. A menu or selec­tion side — a finder of sorts and an active side where the inter­ac­tion with the appli­ca­tion takes place. It could work but, the hinge has been the death of many a lap­top. It doesn’t thrill me.
Con­sumer hokey.
I also see the jour­nal con­cept with the same dis­taste as Time Machine’s sci-fi graph­ics. Is the tablet a con­sumer device? Is it really just a big­ger smarter iPhone?
A sty­lus.
A sty­lus is an inter­est­ing addi­tion. How­ever we can’t write as fast as we can type. Will the hand­writ­ing recog­ni­tion be good?
I had an early Palm and before that the much more inter­est­ing New­ton. Can this new pad or Apple’s really change com­put­ing as much as the orig­i­nal PDA? Apple cre­ated a new plat­form with the iPhone. Can they extend it’s power in a new tablet. I can’t wait to see what Apple has to offer.
Who will make the next dom­i­nant device?
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AT&T is just in over it’s head.

By: Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions
03-09-2009
culture, technology

Every­one loves their iPhone and every­one hates AT&T.

Every­one that I know who has an iPhone com­plains about dropped calls and slug­gish per­for­mance. The dropped calls part seems ridicu­lous after all mak­ing calls is what cel­lu­lar ser­vice is all about right? Not since the iPhone entered the fray for smart­phone space.

The iphone is really a new com­put­ing plat­form and that has become increas­ingly clear as the stats come in on what iPhone uses do. They surf the net, buy stuff online. make bank trans­fers, down­load music, watch video, twit­ter, and text mes­sage all day and night.

Users of the iPhone are con­nected every minute of the day. What does that mean for AT%T a net­work strained bey­ound their imag­i­na­tion when they signed the deal with Apple that’s for sure. AT&T is in over their head; that’s absolutely clear.

So how do iPhone users who expect much more from their device than AT&T can deliver get bet­ter ser­vice? Argue with Apple to dump their exclu­siv­ity with AT&T. It’s clear that the net­work bur­den needs to be spread around.

Fac­toid:

AT&T’s deal with Apple is said to expire as early as next year, at which point other car­ri­ers in the United States would be able to sell the pop­u­lar Apple phones. Indeed, a recent sur­vey by Pricegrabber.com found that 34 per­cent of respon­dents pin­pointed AT&T as the pri­mary rea­son for not buy­ing an iPhone.  - NYTimes

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