Lately I’ve been in a funk. I thought, at first, it was an Apple funk. I thought it might be about the fact that Apple today doesn’t seem to have the same excitement and vision as it did under Steve Jobs. I thought it might be about a sequence of products that is becoming very [...]
Tag Archives: Ultra Portable Tablets
Have a Nexus 7? Waterfield Design Has You Covered
If you got one of Google’s already-popular Nexus 7 tablets no doubt you want a way to keep it protected. Waterfield has options… lots of options. In fact, WaterField offers so many different options that they are calling it a “line of Nexus 7 cases“. What’s in the line? There the Nexus 7 Smart Case, [...]
GearFest GearChat #1, Tablet or Notebook? Which One When?
While together this past weekend the editors took some time out to talk tech. We’ll share the conversation/s over the next few days. Each of us brought a tablet, a notebook and at least one smartphone along with us. Two used the tablet almost exclusively while the others traded off between them fairly evenly. In [...]
Google Announces Nexus 7 Tablet
The Nexus 7 tablet has been leaked all over the place, but it has now been officially announced by Google at today’s keynote. The Nexus 7 is being made by Asus. It has a 1280×800 HD display, Tegra 3 with quad core CPU and a 12 core GPU, front facing camera, wifi, bluetooth, NFC and [...]
Microsoft Surface: The Trojan Tablet For Digital Textbooks?
(image courtesy Wikipedia) Just about two months ago, Barnes and Noble and Microsoft announced that B&N would spin off their NOOK and college bookstore businesses into “Newco”, to be jointly owned by both companies. Obviously this has been good news for B&N’s finances, but aside from the press release both sides have been very quiet. [...]
Mo’Beats Portable Stereo Bluetooth Speaker Stand Brings Sleek Design and Good Functionality to a Tablet Near you
I’m really loving some of the new gear iLuv is offering these days. We are currently working on a full review of their iMM377 MobiAir Bluetooth Stereo Speaker Dock for Smartphones. (Check it out here.) Now they have released another Bluetooth speaker and this one is truly universal… and practical! The Mo’Beats Portable Stereo Bluetooth [...]
Microsoft Announces Surface Tablet In Both Standard and Pro Attire
Image courtesy of Microsoft It’s been some time since Microsoft came out with a decent piece of hardware. Short of the Xbox and Kinect I think the hardware team has been sinking to the lower end of the giant’s revenue stream. Well, after seeing highlights from today’s live event, I think that is about [...]
Gammatech’s 12″ Convertible Durabook (U12Ci) Gets the Ivy Bridge Treatment
Image courtesy of GammaTech Last year we were able to get a hands on review of both the GammaTech U12C and the S15C2 ruggedized notebooks and both measured up pretty well to the Durabook name. The newest tablet to the Durabook ruggedized comes by way of a U12C refresh. The U12Ci is an updated version [...]
Encourage a Child’s Creativity with the Kids Designer II Learning Graphics Tablet
If you’re the parent of a youngster under 10, as I am, chances are your child will invariably start experimenting with learning how to draw and later on learning to write. If you are as old as I am, you probably learned to draw on boring sheet planes of cellulose from dead trees with a [...]
Teething Troubles for Tablet Adoption in the Workplace
It’s always tempting to impute Unlikely virtues to the cute. – Ogden Nash The tech world is abuzz with them, many of us own our own and several of us use them at work. They have transformed the personal computing landscape and become a standard in their own right, sized from the neighborhood of 10″ [...]
Not into the iPad? Here Are Some Smaller, Cheaper Alternatives
After a week of record busting sales if you were uncertain before then you should be now. The iPad is indeed the ruler of the roost on all things tablet. Everyone at Gear Diary was thrilled by this model’s updates, and it’s clear that the new HD display, 4G/LTE, 5MP camera graphics upgrade was [...]
Is it really the Post-PC Era, or Is the Plus-PC Era Simply Continuing?
Ten years ago I bought one of the first devices I ever had that could be classified as a post-pc device or as I like to call it, a plus pc device. That was a Toshiba e740 Pocket PC. This was the first device I had outside of a laptop that included wi-fi. I remember [...]
Save Big for 72 Hours on Skooba Designs V.3 Collection
Back in November we reviewed Skooba Designs’ new V.3 Tablet Messenger. I liked it a lot and wrote this: What I Like: Small and light; lots of well-organized pockets; Special slot for your tablet; Grab and go handle; interior tablet access without opening the flap; Funky closure method for the flap What Needs Improvement: The [...]
Apple’s March Event News (Updated as it Rolls In)
Apple is about to hold its March announcement. We will have the news as it comes in… 12:59 PM Tim Cook is on stage. 12:59 PM Starting with “This is the post-pc era” and Apple is the leader of it. “Devices need to be more portable” post-PC Devices- iPod, iPhone and iPad 1:01 PM iPad created [...]
JustMobile Encore for iPad and Other Tablets Review
We’ve become big fans of JustMobile’s offerings. The company has a great way of merging sleek aesthetics with a high degree of functionality. This time out we are taking a look at the JustMobile Encore stand for iPad and other tablets. Let’s take a look.
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