Ifix it, has done a “ease of repair” analysis on the various tablets out there, it makes for some interesting reading, especially if you enjoy cracking a screen, it looks like, the ages of throw away computers could be upon us!
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Ease of Repair
Friday, March 1st, 2013Tablets, and deal hunting
Monday, December 5th, 2011I’m looking at Android devices, as there seems to be too much “lock in” on apple and amazon devices.
Talking to Harvey Norman today Monday 5th of December I’ve came across the following:
€449
Toshiba at100 (sold as the Toshiba Thrive in the US)
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/tablets/toshiba-at100-1003950/review
The Toshiba, Has got a SDXC card, memory card and has mini USB and replaceable battery, Its also got proper USB ports and a proper HDMI port.
€399
Acer icona
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/26/acer-iconia-tab-a500-review/
3.5mm headphone jack, a mini-HDMI port.dedicated power jack (Means having to have another charger!) and a pair of USB slots: one micro-USB to transfer data to the tablet, and one full-size USB port which connects with both your storage drives and keyboards, just connect this to a usb hub and you be grand.
More reviews are here:
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/266915/the-best-android-tablets/
http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/13-best-android-tablets-in-the-world-905504
Kindle 3 test drive
Friday, June 24th, 2011So I stumped up the €150 euros for a kindle, Why did i buy it? Well I needed to read PDF’s on the move and I didn’t want the hassle of printing them off. I bought the wireless version not the 3G version, as I didn’t think i needed to buy a book when I was out in the sticks as I won’t read books that quick! So how is it going with the kindle… Well not too bad, its ok for PDF’s but the screen is actually too small for PDF’s so a bigger screen is the way to go here. I’ve shown it to a few people and every one thinks that they need to touch it, as they think its an Ipad like device. I think it needs touch too, but at the price point, I don’t think you can get to a touch screen. the e-mail doc delevery system is really good, so I can see this working in a big way, and its a nice way to send docs to a device, no need for messy cables etc. and its free through wifi
Iphone to keep people alive
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011AliveCor, a small company that developed an iPhone 4 case with a built-in ECG is now making a device that will work with your iphone or ipad, so your be able to look at your heart going bump…. bump……. bump. Now a nice app for this would be compare your heart beat, so that you could rank your heart against other hearts, then do a top ten hearts. more on medgadget.com
tables war continues
Monday, June 20th, 2011HP are now getting into the tablet game officially with a new tablet running web os, it will be selling in the states on the 1st of July for around $500 so might even come to these shores for €360, so it looks like the tablet war is going to be won on price.
clouds and things
Friday, June 17th, 2011Clouds and clouds, every where their are clouds! but what really is a cloud, well it a marketing term that is used to sell computers in my humble opinion. In reality its clustered computing exposed to the Internet, then its a case of how big a cluster you want and if you want it private as in all to your self and managed e.g. VMware or Redhat etc., or your want to buy a piece of computing from this cluster, so for example amazon.com EC2 offering, so you pay for a piece of computing time from amazon. I maybe oversimplifying this definition, but with so many buzz words floating around, i think people should have some idea what they are going buying. i was going to link to wikipedia on this, but the marketing men have been there too.
IPad2 rival
Monday, March 14th, 2011Well it looks like Samsung, has finally said their are going to have a go at Apple, So anyone that considering the purchase of the IPad2, it mgiht worth having a look at below. Its a you tube video on the 10.1 Samsung galaxy tab. It seems to look the business. It will be also nice and open, so it will be developer friendly, so plenty of apps will be a coming.