The Latitude ON stuff is a complete farse. All it does is get access to your last couple of days of email, contacts and calander. It is a completely read only system (you can't download new emails, add contacts or calander events) that ONLY syncronises to outlook when the system is fully booted. Basically it is just like sync'ing your pda phone to Outlook (which i would recommend anyday over the Latitude ON rubbish).
Basically the only use for Latitude ON is for getting out some quick contact details, seeing a calander entry or a recent email (and not the attachement), and like I said, my PDA phone does this better by a long shot (I can see the attachments and I can email and add contacts and calander events).
I guess I was hoping that Dell would provide us with an ultra fast booting web browser like Splashtop (hopefully in 3 seconds). Oh, and to top it off, it takes over 10 seconds to get Latitude ON Reader running anyway... What a joke...
Everyone needs to wait for the ASUS laptops or the Voodoo Envy that will incorporate the Splashtop instant-on webbrowser (which will be able to connect to the internet by wifi I assume - as opposed to the latitude on which doesn't connect at all).
Actually, the boxes are only shipping with Latitude On Reader at this time. Reader is the read-onoly version of "Latitude ON" which is supposed to be out in a few months. Agreed--limited use right now, but I'll reserve judgement for the full version.
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I just received a Dell Latitude E4200.
The Latitude ON stuff is a complete farse. All it does is get access to your last couple of days of email, contacts and calander. It is a completely read only system (you can't download new emails, add contacts or calander events) that ONLY syncronises to outlook when the system is fully booted. Basically it is just like sync'ing your pda phone to Outlook (which i would recommend anyday over the Latitude ON rubbish).
Basically the only use for Latitude ON is for getting out some quick contact details, seeing a calander entry or a recent email (and not the attachement), and like I said, my PDA phone does this better by a long shot (I can see the attachments and I can email and add contacts and calander events).
I guess I was hoping that Dell would provide us with an ultra fast booting web browser like Splashtop (hopefully in 3 seconds). Oh, and to top it off, it takes over 10 seconds to get Latitude ON Reader running anyway... What a joke...
Everyone needs to wait for the ASUS laptops or the Voodoo Envy that will incorporate the Splashtop instant-on webbrowser (which will be able to connect to the internet by wifi I assume - as opposed to the latitude on which doesn't connect at all).
James.
Actually, the boxes are only shipping with Latitude On Reader at this time. Reader is the read-onoly version of "Latitude ON" which is supposed to be out in a few months.
Agreed--limited use right now, but I'll reserve judgement for the full version.