I love gadgets. Be it useful, useless, shiny, dull, black, silver, electronic, mechanical, software, hardware, etc. Music, books, cameras, electronics, phones, computers are my favorites. Whether you are buying one, or just looking at one, will make you happy.
It is well known that Apple deliberately remove support of Flash from its hand-held devices in order to capitalize a business model so successful that could be easily jeopardize by the existence of Flash and its free offerings. Now it seems that the fight is escalating to a new level.
It looks like that the tablet market is similar to the pre-iPhone era of mobile phone market. Lots of OSes - iPhone OS, Android, Windows 7, XP, Linux and a bunch of others, quickly obsoleted models, applications on many different platforms, etc.
Google comes into the ring, embedding Flash into Chrome. This is a heavyweight, enough to have a kind of tablet that rivals the iPad. See what Engadget said
3D seems to be the buzzword for now. Cinemas got 3D movies that sell seats like hotcakes. Wanna have one 3D stuff on hand? Nintendo save the day with the Nintendo 3DS, a handheld gaming console that let's you play 3D games. We live in a 3D world, eating 3D stuff, watching 3D movies and playing 3D games. Life is just wonderful.
Ha ha, the tablet PC market is definitely heating up. This ULV tablet PC is getting close to what I am looking for except the battery life. It serves a particular segment of people who need to be mobile, run a little bit PC-only software and read books on the go. This one from Hanvon is cool, although slightly more expensive than iPad. Never mind, at least it served my purpose. Eager to get one of this.
It is cool to be the first one to get an iPad (well, not me, as the iPad misses some of my requirements). But it is way cooler if I can get a hold of this computer. See for yourself.
Wow! The E-PL1 can now be pre-ordered in Hong Kong. However, the pricing is a bit higher than expected, close to USD 685. Never mind. Nothing is fair. Want to enjoy earlier than others? Pay a bit more money.
George Orwell once said 'Some people are more equal than the others'. Given that the E-PL1 is cheaper than the E-P1, it would be a good second camera to a full-fledged DSLR if you can shell out the bucks. But I hope the pricing could be 'more equal' with other places.
The Lenovo S10-3t is a machine that moved me a little bit in thinking that I should get one of them. Reason? I commute to work on a daily basis. There is some spare time that I think I should utilize. I want a machine that can be a PC to run some software but when I am not using it as a PC, it can be converted into a reader for me to read books, lots of books. (Sounds something like an iPad. But the iPad runs only iPhone-based software)
S10-3t is the first netbook convertible that can let me runs some PC software (such as Office) and convert into a tablet, faking as a reader. Of course, it cannot compare directly with a reader with E-ink technology. But when you want the best of both worlds, you are stuck with some very few choices. (There is a new LCD technology that can act both ways as a color LCD and an e-ink display according to selection, which can truly convert a netbook into a tablet reader and vice versa. Really looking forward to that.) However, the form factor is a bit awkward.
T101MT has a predecesor, the T91MT. It is quite a good netbook but still the form factor is not suitable for reading. T101MT is a bit better. I wonder if it can be shrunk to a size even thinner. Then it can fend of some iPad competition.
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