[olug] Contemplating an iPad.

[Jordan Fox]

I know this is a bit late in the email game...  this device has been
on the market about a year, it's a combination arm tablet / netbook.
The screen/tablet is a full arm device, but it can be plugged into a
keyboard to turn it into netbook and triple the battery capacity.  I
thought it was a really neat concept / idea... I like it better than a
straight tablet.  It's still for sale, I just checked.  It comes with
linux, but I see that it now also run android if you'd prefer that.
The hardware has been updated a little too.  They've tried to make it
hackable with internal usb ports to add more storage or other features
that are usb.

https://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/review-always-innovating-touchbook

Jordan

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:53 PM,  <webtrekker at cox.net> wrote:
> Ya mean like this ---
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226800057&subSection=News
>
> I'm expecting something to show up this fall or early winter. I hope anyway...
>
> ---- Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
>> The iPad release effectively caught every else with their pants down.
>>
>> I predict it will be years before we see a competitive offering with Android or WebOS.
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Dan Linder wrote:
>>
>> > Ok, it looks like the iPad will fill my needs (PDA, PDF/ebook viewer,
>> > remote access, etc).
>> >
>> > I was hoping to play with developing some small apps, but
>> > unfortunately the language I'd like to do this in (Java) is not
>> > available on the iPad (Apple and Steve Jobs, not a technical reason).
>> >
>> > Since I'm also looking at getting an Android based phone in the next
>> > 6-8 months and the preferred Android development platform is Java
>> > (http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/getting-started-with-android-development),
>> > I'm thinking an Android tablet is starting to make sense.
>> >
>> > But...
>> >
>> > It seems that most of the Android based tablets are either "coming
>> > soon", or are too small to be a decent reader (the Dell Streak looks
>> > promising, but too small and low res).
>> >
>> > The $150 tablet that was seen at K-Mart in the past few weeks
>> > (http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/08/08/1727223/Kmart-Briefly-Offers-149-Android-Tablet?from=rss),
>> > but apparently it is not licensed to get apps from the Google Android
>> > app store, so I'm hesitant if it has any future.
>> >
>> > Are there any others that I'm missing that are out there now?
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
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