Meet:Mobility Podcast 48 is now available. Recorded on 23rd April 2010.
JKK, Chippy and guest, Chris Davies from Slashgear talk about netbooks, the iPad, new news from Dell and why Chippy paid 520 Euro for an Xperia X10. We also cover the question ‘Are netbooks getting boring?’
Full show notes and playback options over at Meet:Mobility.
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Sascha Pallenberg – Netbooknews.comJKK – JKKMobile.com
Chippy – Carrypad.com
Guest: Charbax – ARMDevices.net
Netbooks:
* Intel lanuched the N470. 1.83Ghz
* http://twitpic.com/160qhb The new ASUS Eee PC 1018P will feature new Intel Atom CPUs: Intel Atom N455 and N475 (DDR3 – capable) Sascha quote: “1018p Best eeepc ever”
* Gigabyte T1000 S103T Viliv S10. Asus T101. Acer 1820 PTZ (12″ for simialar price)
* Nvidia ION 2 / 2010 launched. Two versions (actually three in total)
* New Classmate PC announced. More rugged.
MIDs, consumer stuff.
* Archos 7
* Archos 8
* Dell mini ( streak ) amazon etc
* joojoo
Ultra Mobile PCs
Hanvon TouchPad BC10C and BA10E tablets at CeBIT 201
On the podcast:
JKK – JKKMobile.com
Chippy – Carrypad.com
Chris Davies – Slashgear
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Thanks for that!
Yes,the netbooks are boring!
They are only laptops overpriced(because they have crappy processors) and with other name:netbooks,in order to hide the scam.
Agreed. They have been boring for quite some time now, actually. When Sascha said at CES how many new netbooks were released, they were all the same. A different skin, a different name, and ship them out. There aren’t that many laptop makers and designs that are that similar.
It was completely over saturated in 2009 and you will see in 2010 those interesting products or those that are from good makers will bubble to the top. Already mega electronics stores are limiting offerings to consumers even within model numbers (of instance, you can only get one or two variations of an EEE PC now from Fry’s).
Pads are a fad and people will get tired of constantly having to hold it all the time, especially 10 inch size or bigger. Try using a pad at a coffe shop and drinking a cup of coffee, or view it when it has to lay flat on the table, or try to read a website while eating lunch. It only works when it’s being used with no other activity involved and that will be a rare situation. Give me a full feature netbook that I can set on a table and read hands free, or view while holding my cell phone as I talk.
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I know personally I don’t need or want or even have a use for an iPad over my iPhone I have now, but I am curious about it solely because I can recycle my apps to use on the iPad. After I have bought those hundreds of apps, I want to keep them around. And if the iPad can make them look even better or make them even more useful, that’s a huge advantage for getting an iPad.
So your example of a Win 7 tablet vs. an Android tablet because it is similar to the phone OS someone might already have is exactly the case. If I had a Nexus One and I had some great apps, and I knew they could transfer over to the tablet if it is powered by Android, absolutely it would be at the top of my list over the Win 7 if similar specs and price were involved. Added to that, Android will be cheaper and longer battery life over the Win 7, even more siding with the Android tablet as my go-to loo-computer.
Also, the lack of multitasking from Apple was done for very good reasons. It is a battery hog having all of those services running and using resources all the time. To maximize battery life, it is quite simple to just make sure nothing but that one task is working at that time.
Also, you can “multitask”. For something as simple as a smart phone or a couch-surfing tablet, what do you look for? You will get notifications if an email comes through. You can play iPod app while surfing. You can get other notifications (after OS 3.0) while you are doing one other thing. How much more multitasking do you really need? The only multitask currently that is not supported is a streaming media service while surfing or checking email. That I agree with, but then again it wouldn’t take too much to make that an app like iPod that would make it multitaskable in the iPhone OS framework (if Apple would open it up). I would make that exception for only streaming media services, however.
Also, at least for the iPhone 2G and 3G, there aren’t the resources to do multitasking. That’s why the update isn’t coming out for those phones. To get the seamless experience Apple wishes, 128mb of RAM isn’t enough to do multitasking and so they decided not to include those phones with that little amount to have it. So resources (or lack thereof) are involved with the decision to include multitasking or not.
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