March 17th 2010
Taken with iPhone 3G
It’s a beautiful day that called for heading out and working in the local coffee shop. I’ve been here about an hour working on the ThinkPad X100e laptop. I’m getting a lot of questions about the X100e, and it makes sense to do a brief Q&A session to shed further light on [...]
March 16th 2010
When Kevin and I first saw the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e in Vegas earlier this year, I was impressed with the small size of the notebook. I didn’t get much time with the X100e at that time, so I figured that Lenovo had taken a few compromises to get the littlest ThinkPad as small as it [...]
March 16th 2010
Tags: Battery Life, Eighteen Hours, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Laptop, Laptop Battery, Laptops, Progreen
March 16th 2010
The Viliv S10 Blade has been here for a few days and I am forming some definite opinions about the netbook to share. Like any mobile device, there are things I like and others I don’t. As a refresher, the S10 Blade is a convertible netbook from Viliv, the Korean company that specializes in handheld [...]
March 15th 2010
Like the original 5101, the refreshed HP Mini 5102 netbook is as good as any netbook available. The brushed metal casing and long battery life make the 5102 a great traveling companion. The requests for a video review of the Mini 5102 have been coming hot and heavy since the device arrived at Mobile Tech [...]
March 15th 2010
Tags: Batteries Lithium, Battery Life, Laptops, Lithium, Lithium Batteries, Lithium Ion Batteries, Stanford University, Sulphur
March 14th 2010
A common complaint amongst gadget dorks, the iPhone has no user replaceable battery… and the iPad’s no different. However, a subtle change of wording in Apple’s Battery Replacement Service FAQ indicates that there is a difference in the way Apple will go about replacing iPad batteries: if your iPad starts experiencing diminished battery life, Apple [...]
March 11th 2010
It is raining 10-inch notebooks at Mobile Tech Manor today as the UPS guy just dropped off the Viliv S10 Blade. The S10 is a notebook from Korea that has some features not found in most netbooks. The convertible screen swings around to convert from notebook to slate tablet, and is augmented by a unique resistive [...]
March 9th 2010
A picture is worth a thousand words and the awesome infographics that GigaOM runs are worth millions. I love how a good infographic can tell an entire story with no words, just the graphic. The Rise of Netbooks tells such a story, that of the phenomenal growth of the lowly netbook. A simple glance shows [...]
March 9th 2010
MSI’s Wind netbook was one of the first real competitors to the Asus Eee PC that actually mattered. It did a few things that were pretty revolutionary at the time: it shifted the mouse buttons to below the trackpad, where the Eee always placed them unergonomically at the side; it expanded the screen to 10.1 [...]
March 8th 2010
Looking to get your slate fix on but don’t want to watch the first iPad television commercial on Apple’s web site or your DVR? HP is happy to oblige with two new videos showing off the HP Slate that was first introduced by Steve Ballmer at the Consumer Electronics Show. Both vids are worth a [...]
March 3rd 2010
Laptops are the top selling computers, and have been for a while. They have gotten easier to carry and cheaper, both factors making them the PC of choice for many. A lot of people leave the laptop plugged into the wall all the time, as they seldom venture out into the wild. Others are highly [...]
March 2nd 2010
The CeBIT show is underway in Germany and new product announcements are shooting across the pond. Intel is making one announcement, with the introduction of its latest generation Classmate PC. The Classmate is Intel’s reference netbook design aimed at children of all ages. The netbook is optimized for touch operation, and uses a special interface [...]
March 2nd 2010
When it comes to netbooks there is no such thing as too thin nor too light, and the new Averatec N1200 is certainly both. The 10-inch netbook weighs in at a svelte 2.2 pounds, in a case that is less than an inch thick. There are three different models of the N1200, all of them [...]
March 2nd 2010
Tags: Aluminum, Asus, Battery Life, Diary, Eee Pc, Netbook, Promise
March 1st 2010
Pushing up the battery life of the gadgets we use involves creating more efficient hardware at the same time as improving battery technology. While companies such as Intel and ARM strive to produce ever more efficient processors, Panasonic has just took a major step forward with lithium-ion battery technology.
Most Li-Ion batteries currently use a graphite [...]
February 26th 2010
Tags: Asus, Battery Life, Bound, Brushed Metal, Cebit, Eee, Fisher Price, Impressive Tales, Models, Touchpad Keyboard
February 24th 2010
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Tags: Battery Life, Flash Player 10, Google, Nexus
February 24th 2010
Improved Wi-Fi operation and throughput.
Improved performance for customers who experienced Windows XP issues.
Auto Update enhancements to improve download reliability.
Fix for when device stays in offline after upgrade.
Note: The 1.06 firmware update released on 1/28 was designed to improve battery life and connectivity to the 4G network.
Sprint’s 3G/4G mobile hotspot is landing its 1.07 firmware update [...]
February 19th 2010
The Dell Mini 10 netbook is a very nice specimen, as witnessed by Kevin’s video below. It has just about everything a netbook user could want and then some, given word that WiMAX is now an option. The new option is unlocked, so it can be used with either Sprint or Clear in the U.S., [...]