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Well this might be a little too early to say as I may give in to the looks and the design of the iPad sometime soon as soon as its stable and available in India, but I still have my doubts over the whole Tablet concept.
We all wrote on a paper with pen a little more than 2 decades back when Bill and Steve started selling us stuff so that we hit keys instead of flaunting a Pen. In came a PC and then a Laptop. All that was to replace and make stuff easier for us to handle. Little after this Apple got in the Newton and we all loved it, it could schedule and recognize handwritten stuff and let you even scribble aimlessly, and then faded into oblivion.
Then came the Tablet PCs/Laptops which had this screen that swiveled and frankly thats what was the weak point. Sooner or later, they would become lose, wobble etc.
And we are back to the ‘no physical keyboard’ era again with iPhones (and it’s million copies from LG, Sony, Samsung etc.) and now a larger one in the iPad.
But the basic is missing. The ease of having a separate Input and Output device makes like a lot easier. physical memory takes care of the rest, much like the stick shift in a car. QWERTY was perfect.
Hence This. A two screen solution is probably a way to go.
Although Gizmodo has revealed something similar by Microsoft, I would rather wait for the Apple one.
http://www.entourageedge.com/
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True. There are many of them coming up, and most are very boring, trying to not look beyond a “Tablet” or an “E-book”.
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Yeah, but the entourage does most of whatever you have drawn, also recognises handwriting etc. (Its great except the hardware design is not really the best, and the user experience is not seamless and is just a hodge podge glue stick job of UIs for the ebook and the netbook using the default skin of android ).If you have to be optimistic, if they can survive till their 3rd generation, you could see stuff close to something innovative.
Take a look at why I’ll go for the ipad.
http://www.shamiraj.com/?p=137
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Here’s a competition in the Tablet market grown right in our backyard.
http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-0969281/
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Interesting read @Shami.
But my idea of a Tablet revolves around a complete replacement of a Laptop. In other words, get rid of the keyboard completely (I hate it when things get stuck between the keys).