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[Technology, iPhone, Mobiles, Nokia, and Gadgets] CES Hands On: Eee Keyboard - Technology, iPhone, Mobiles, Nokia ...: From the small screen just about everything is accessible: all types of media, web apps, a few games, file directory, a few dedicated apps and even the full Windows XP desktop. The Windows desktop didn’t display in its entirety, but moving a finger to the edge of the screen panned in that direction. 

[gdgt - new in gadgets] HP slate (prototype): Really? This is it? - gdgt: I think Steve Ballmer chose to showcase this particular device during his keynote because he's afraid that Apple are going to announce a tablet at the end of the month, and Courier isn't ready for primetime. This is nothing more than a Windows 7 netbook with a touch interface and as such it's probably going to be irrelevant in about six months, unless Microsoft and HP are planning on teaming up to bring some sort of app store, content delivery system or an ecosystem of any kind in the future which they probably won't.

[Spot Cool Stuff: Tech] The Viliv S5 Net-Tablet PC: The smallest consumer device that can ...: The S5 also comes with a built-in old school stylus, a feature Spot Cool Stuff initially thought was needlessly redundant (and also superfluous) but eventually came to find useful when surfing websites with small buttons difficult to hit with finger tips.

[Disney Secrets Forums] Apple event Jan 27th - Disney Secrets Forums: The iPhone was a significant leap in that regard - I was googling stuff when we were on our way to the shops th eother day and its great saving stuff in Argos as you are driving there! I never thought I would use it as much as I do for pretty much everything - even at home it is my internet of choice as its just so instant and portable - yes it has a few shortcomings but I still find it astonishing

[Testfreaks | The Blog] Is There A Tablet Computer In Your Future?: The iPhone, by Apple, showed us exactly how you could scroll a list using a touch screen without  a single tiny scroll bar on the side. Suddenly a finger would actually work, and screen elements such as drop down lists were accommodating to the user, not the other way around.

[Techdirt] The Killer Feature I Would Design Into An Apple Tablet | Techdirt: I don't need my phone to be a general purpose computer - the iPhone features/apps I use regularly are fairly limited (phone, calendar, maps, camera, music player, calculator, weather forecast, web browser, eBook reader and a couple of other minor apps). At the time I got it, the iPhone was the only phone that offered all those things with a decent UI (including multi-touch zoom for maps and non-phone friendly web pages), both 3G and wi-fi and with an integrated web store.

[Crave: The gadget blog] Will the Apple tablet be a full-fledged computer? | Crave - CNET: While the recent rumors all seem to point towards a device without a full PC-style operating system, the purported 10-inch screen of the Apple tablet may create a different set of psychological expectations from consumers. After all, that's the size of most Netbook PCs, which, despite costing as little as $299, offer the same (or in some cases, the "Starter" versions of) Windows XP or Windows 7 as full-size laptops, and which can install and run virtually software (with the possible exception of power-hungry apps like 3D games and video editing suites).

[The Microsoft Blog] CES | What's Microsoft got in store for CES 2010?: The Apple tablet is expected to be a multimedia-lover's dream: a 10- to 11-inch cross between a laptop and an iPhone. And Microsoft, which with Windows XP already secured a healthy position in the netbook operating system market, is ready to capitalize.

[TheAppleBlog] Microsoft's Slate: Exactly Unlike Apple's Upcoming Tablet: Apple has the capability to do that, and that capability IMO stems not from the ability of the programmers and engineers, but from the vision and leadership and dedication to producing the closest thing they can to perfection (of course it’s not always everyone else’s idea of perfection, lol – there are definitely flaws, but it’s fair to say that they are far out-weighed by the ‘pros’).

[Charlie's Diary] Gadget Patrol: Sony PRS-300 ebook reader - Charlie's Diary: When they recently updated the Kindle 2 to allow it to read PDFs, they also enabled manual orientation change, so like the DX you can use the K2 in a landscape orientation, or upside down, or whatever. (Unlike the DX, you have to select it manually, because it lacks the accelerometer.) Viewing PDFs in landscape helps with the text size (even on the DX), although it's a bit clunky due to the page breaks often ending up mid-screen.

[Crave: The gadget blog] A modest proposal: Detente between Mac and PC laptop fans ...: I'm an old skool PC'er as well, and these days all I see are people wandering around with iPhones and Macbooks. I don't get the fascination, because my Blackberry does things out of the box that my friends with iPhones need to download apps for (text messaging app, are you serious?), and I pay a fraction of what they pay for new hardware when it comes time to upgrade my desktops and laptops.

[Cell Phone Infoz] Microsoft Windows Phone HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC HD2 Review from an ...: If you were to leave the iPhone for the Touch Pro2 you’d get a world-class horizontal keyboard, deeper and better Exchange integration, and a phone that’s as individually tweak-able as your imagination and latest ROM cook-ups allow. You can also find versions across all the major carriers, multitask your heart out, and install Windows Phone apps from anyone and in any which way you please.

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