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Whats next for the tablet

logtech — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:05:43 +0000

The iPad official launch was Saturday and it went well. With the over hyped media saying that this will revolutionize the industry, what are other companies doing to keep up. There are the rumors that the Microsoft Courier will hit the market soon with its double-sided note taking capabilities, however so far it seems to be only that. More resent the HP “Slate” is said to be a pretty powerful competitor to the iPad with several advances over the iPad. According to Engagdet who said they got their hands “on what looks like an internal HP Slate presentation”, breaks down some pretty cool statics. The HP Slate is said to be around the same price as the iPad but have a more powerful possessor. It was also said to have a card reader, USB port, and a HDMI port. The report also said that it would contain two camera one of them a VGA camera, which unfortunately the iPad lacks any camera. And finally it said that the HP Slate would run Window 7 which means Flash and full web capabilities. Over all the HP Slate appears to be a very nice competitor to the iPad and in my opinion over shoots the iPad by far. However, this is all speculation and who knows when and if this device ever comes out. Right now the iPad is solo in this new market and it could be for some time until we see some good competition

Windows Phone 7

logtech — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:59:42 +0000

The new Windows Phone 7 is miles ahead of his predecessor Windows Mobile. If you are familiar with the Zune interface you will be at home with Windows Phone 7. The interface is clean and appears pretty easy to use. Windows Phone 7 is very integrated with social and web services such as Facebook, Bing search, Bing Maps, and photo cloud services. All of the in phone and in the cloud services are tightly integrated with one another. The music and video apps are just like they are on the Zune player. You will also be able to download content from the Zune store over Wi-Fi or 3G. There will be an app hub coming soon which will have applications like games. In the near future they will also be releasing Windows Office Hub, which will be programs like Word, and OneNote but made for the phone. This future will probably integrate closely with Windows Office 2010 on your computer which has show off some share options itself. Of course there will be the typical apps like e-mail, calendar and Bing Maps. Internet Explore on the phone is much cleaner and user-friendly than any of their earlier versions. Microsoft said there will be many more futures that they did not show at the Mobile World Congress 2010, which hopeful will make this phone ever more user-friendly and easy to use. Despite quite a few bugs in the prototypes that they show off at the show, the phone as a very big potential to do well in the phone market coming later this year.

Hulu Mobile

logtech — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:22:59 +0000

Hulu.com, the popular video on demand website, has sealed its self off from being accessed on Skyfire 1.0. Skyfire is a relatively new application for cell phones which allows people to access content most cell phone browsers don’t support like Flash. This was very disappointing, but it seems they are doing this for a reason. If you look back a few months ago hulu did a similar thing with boxee. They blocked there content from boxee and just about a month later came out with their own desktop application. So it seems obvious what they are planning, come out with their own mobile application. If they do come out with their own mobile application how are they going to do it? There are several ways a site like hulu could go about this. They could create their own mobile applications for devices like the iPhone, Blackberry, Pal Pre, ext. However, if they do go this path their content will not be available on all devices and they will have to create applications for each device. On the other hand they could create a mobile website which could be reached by most mobile browsers; this would have a wider distribution but limit capability and quality. They could reach people either way but it would be much easier if the world could come together and create a stranded for web videos on the computer and on mobile devices.

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Box.net: Online storage for phones

logtech — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:22:32 +0000

Today Box.net has partnered up with ShoZu , to provide a online storage place to store there photos and videos. Shozu.com, (if you do not now about them), allows you to upload content from your mobile device to places like Youtube, Facebook, and others.