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Pogo Sketch by Ten 1 – Unique Stylus.

Posted: December 4, 2011 by Gill Haus in Android, Blackberry Playbook, Blackberry Tablet OS, Fun Tech!, iOS, iPad, iPad2, Motorola Xoom realtime review, Samsung Tab, Stylus, Tablets, Windows Mobile 7
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We reviewed the Wacom Bamboo stylus a couple months ago and loved it.  At the time, we didn’t think we really need to look for another stylus.  Then we found the Pogo Sketch by Ten 1.  Why do we like this stylus (other than the great colors)?  For three main reasons:

1. It’s lighter.  It really feels a bit better when writing on the surface of an iPad.  It’s not heavy like those other styli so it feels good in your hand.

2. It’s thinner.  It just feels more natural when you use this stylus.

3. The tip is NOT the standard rubber cone that doesn’t seem to slide as easily.  This one has a different style tip that still works on iOS and glides across a surface (with the same accuracy as other styli).

These three things really made the difference for us and it’s become the stylus of choice (this week, of course).  Oh yeah, did we mention you can find it for under $20 on eBay?  Make it four reasons! :)

 

Samsung Galaxy Tab at T-Mobile – Worth considering at $249USD

Posted: February 26, 2011 by Troy Saxton-Getty in Carrier, Samsung Tab, T-Mobile, Tablets
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In November I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab for full price after being a long time iPad user (from day one). Needless to say I was a bit disappointed with the product as it was close to the same price as my 3G iPad. over the past several months I have learned to customize it with apps enough that is is fairly useful. I have also added some great apps to my PC/Mac to make the experience more iTunes like, such as DoubleTwist. Although the experience ITRW (in the real world) isn’t on par with my iPad, it’s finally at a price point worth considering, T-Mobile recently announced a $249 price tag if you are willing to sign a 2 year contract.

When I talk to my non-gadget and gadget friends one thing is not clear to either, people keep getting wrapped up with the 2 year contract. I get it, but a two year data plan doesn’t mean your stuck with the unit for 2 years.

Let me explain:

First, at T-Mobile (and ATT) the unit is SIM chip based, meaning, you can pull the SIM out and it’s “portable” to something else if you decide to change devices. Second, if, in a year, you want to go to a different device, you can and on the same data plan contract. Huh?

What do you lose? The next device can’t be at the subsidized/discounted pricing (money off for another contract term) unless you get a new phone number (aka data plan) activated, again, on another term, like 2 more years. So if you really are bumming a year later, buy the new device full pop, move your SIM. (in the case of Verizon without SIM cards, you can deactivate the original unit, buy the new unit and transfer service) (New unit will be at full price but no contract extension)

So, the Galaxy Tab is now worth a look on T-Mobile at $249 and even $299 on ATT, Verizon or Sprint.

PS, Did I mention you can have native TEXT’ing on the T-Mobile TAB? (Geez Verizon Xoom….)

T-Mobile:

http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-tab/SGH-T849ZKATMB

All Tab Carriers:

http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-tab?cid=ppc_gtb_goo_Galaxy+Tab_Tab_galaxy+tab

Motorola Xoom – NO FLASH!

Posted: February 26, 2011 by Troy Saxton-Getty in Android, Carrier, Motorola Xoom realtime review, Operating System, Samsung Tab, Tablets, Verizon
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It appears that Flash support for the new Motorola Xoom Tablet is nonexistent… after going to the Xoom page on Motorola to check out the details in their technical specifications, the funniest thing happened, YOU NEED FLASH to see the main Xoom page, they actually have a FLASH mockup of the XOOM Tablet, but i had to use our Samsung Galaxy Tab which has flash to see it. ROFL (Photo’s included)

On the Tech Spec’s page there is a tiny text line that says Flash Support will be available on Adobe’s web site. “Will” being the key operator. after some further poking around and talking to a friend of mine at Adobe, it looks like it will be available in Q2, it could be as late at June 2011.

So what advantage do I have over my trusty “old” iPad?? Really?

Update – this just in from the Verizon Wireless Website:

*Adobe® Flash® 10.1 will be available as a free download from Android Market(TM) coming soon. (Will & Soon, two words I enjoy!)

Motorola Xoom Tablet without Flash Player

Motorola Xoom Tablet without Flash Player

Samsung Galaxy Tab with Flash Player

Samsung Galaxy Tab with Flash Player

Samsung Tab – Month 5 of use is almost here…Mark as Read not working as expected on the native email client

Posted: February 25, 2011 by Troy Saxton-Getty in Android, Carrier, Operating System, Samsung Tab, T-Mobile, Tablets
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I have been using the Samsung TAB for almost 5 months side by side with my iPad so it is time for an update on some things that don’t work as expected. (Our Samsung TAB is on T-Mobile, standard out of the box config plus various apps being added)

Mark as read – The TAB’s native email client doesn’t do a good job of marking messages read on a variety of email account types. For example, if you read email on your computer, then on the TAB you have one or more account types, (Exchange, IMAP, POP, GMAIL, YAHOO, MobileMe) you will find yourself coming back to re-read the email as it will show up as unread. This is in the native email client and you can solve this by using other email clients, but out of the box this is a huge frustration.

I have noticed if I leave the Samsung TAB on it is generally not a problem but in the real world you have to put it in airplane mode for travel, the battery might go dead or you could get out of range and when that happens it will likely lose it’s place on what email is read and what isn’t.

Additionally, the email client doesn’t make it easy to mark a portion of email then apply “MARK AS READ” to those messages. You can mark everything in a specific mailbox one way or the other but ITRW (in the real world) where you might have a few thousand or more messages, this takes hours to flow through the entire mailbox.

I tried with a bit over 2ooo messages in my inbox to do this, it counted through them at about 1 per second or two and it took a very long time…. frustrating. And I found myself shutting the unit off and back on again to stop the committed task just so I could use the unit again.