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Aware Electronics shows off A-Pad convertible netbook {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2008 2:22PM What's the use of a Linux tablet, convertible or not? There is no handwriting recognition software for Linux that even comes close to the splash screen of RitePen, so -- Why? To make the purdy pictures?
And yes, according to the article on jkkmobile, it does have a touchscreen.
Aware Electronics shows off A-Pad convertible netbook {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2008 2:19PM What's the use of a Linux tablet, convertible or not? There is no handwriting recognition software for Linux that even comes close to the splash screen of RitePen, so -- Why? To make the purdy pictures?
And yes, according to the article on jkkmobile, it does have a touchscreen.
Dyson looking to motor into the electric car arena? {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2008 6:23AM Dyson? Isn't he the one who made a battery-powered dustbuster that works for like TWO MINUTES!!!??? And now he's going to make a battery-powered car...
Openmoko FreeRunner looking good for early July release {Engadget}
Jun 22nd 2008 7:45PM Well, you sure earned your pay for today...
How would you change SanDisk's Sansa Fuze? {Engadget}
May 16th 2008 7:12PM A 16 and 32GB version?
Manodo's screen gives apartment dwellers the 411 {Engadget}
Apr 29th 2008 12:23PM I was sold until you started yapping about the "energy" and the "CO2".
If I wanted a guilt-trip, a classy hooker with a riding whip would be so much more fun...
Video: Lenovo's Ideapad U8 MID teases with Intel's Atom {Engadget}
Apr 2nd 2008 11:46AM Again: What handwriting recognition? I've been using Nokia Itablets for several years and tried Linux on several full-sized tablets and nothing in the Linuxverse comes even close to PenOffice, which itself is basically the ten year old Newton ParaGraph HWR engine, ported to Windows (albeit with an extremely kewl graphical macro engine bolted onto it).
Nokia's own HWR is a joke and the only thing Linux has ATM is Cellwriter, which is a character recognizer, in Graffiti style. The reason everybody seems to want keyboards -- make that "thumbboards", or even dumbboards! -- on their UMPC/MID/Itablet/whatever is that there simply is no decent effort done in creating a usable HWR solution.
But, and contrary to the popular hubbub, the venerable Newtons had near-perfect cursive HWR on the latest (and, thanks to the Satan Jobs, last) iteration of NewtOS. It actually worked better than a keyboard in most cases, other than static use on a desk, but CalliGrapher/PenOffice and Inkwell still use that very same, now decade-old technology.
I realize people are already queueing up to tell me that keyboards works sooo much faster than stupid handwriting, and they're basically correct, provided you're sitting at a normal desk, typing on a standard keyboard with ten fingers (or possibly more, if you're from the American Mid-West). Let me tell you this: Jabbing with your thumbs at a minuscule keypad, unable to keep your eyes on the screen while typing, you're never going to achieve the speed a frakking stylus is going to give you (don't forget that handwriting is the only means of text input that'll allow you to see both what your hand is doing and the result of it on the screen). Fullscreen input HWR is the perfect way of getting text stuff into a pocket-sized tablet computing device and it's not because Jobs hates HWR (and only so because Scully came up with it), that he's also right.
Video: Lenovo's Ideapad U8 MID teases with Intel's Atom {Engadget}
Apr 2nd 2008 8:47AM That only says I can write on the screen. Big deal, I can do that in MS Paint as well. Where is the mention of handwriting recognition?
Video: Lenovo's Ideapad U8 MID teases with Intel's Atom {Engadget}
Apr 2nd 2008 8:37AM So where exactly did you get that "hand writing recognition" from?
AFAIK, if this thing does run Linux, it will have no useful HWR at all, because it doesn't exist for Linux.
Video of the iPhone Pwned project in action {Engadget}
Mar 30th 2008 3:07PM Uh-oh! a fanboi. *plonk*
