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• The lessons from General Magic
• Table: Intel Core Ultra 2 vs Ultra 3
• Major Differences in Intel Core Ultra 200 Series Processors
• What’s your laptop or tablet’s gas mileage?
• No more AdSense
• AI — the real Personal Digital Assistant?
• Should we add pricing and “Best of”?
• Was Intel 11th generation “Tiger Lake” the milestone we thought it was?
• If I were on the board of a rugged device provider…
• Intel’s 12th generation “Alder Lake” Hybrid processors
• The Ingress Protection Rating
• Intel generations
• DJI Enterprise — Drones are becoming serious business
• The stupid PC On/Off/Sleep button
• Dec. 1996: Microsoft finally validates the pen with its new Windows CE operating system for handheld computers.
• Consumer Smartphones vs Rugged Handhelds — How can providers of rugged handhelds prevail against the competition from inexpensive consumer tech?
• How a German/Chinese company views the situation
• Thoughts about Computer Benchmark Testing
• How the rugged PC “drop spec” just became different
• The uneven performance of cameras in rugged handhelds and tablets
• Android contemplations 2019
• The Drone in Your Future
• How bright is your screen?
• Ditching laptops for tablets — evolution or disruptive paradigm shift?
• Why ruggedness testing matters
• Make IP67 the minimum standard for rugged handhelds
• A look at Apple’s HomePod
• Microsoft…..
• The impact of iPhones on the rugged handheld market
• A future where quality is king — A look at Zebra’s 2017 Manufacturing Vision Study
• GammaTech celebrates its 30th anniversary
• Apple Watch Series 2 after three weeks
• Initial impressions of an Apple Watch holdout
• History repeats itself: it’s now the Surface Laptop
• Are “mobile” sites really needed?
• In search of a prepaid, transferrable SIM
• Mobile Operating Systems Crossroad?
• Sharp, clear web images
• Rocky (not Balboa) has left the building
• Intel introduces Kaby Lake, the 7th generation of Core processors
• Congrats to Xplore Technologies: 20 years of rugged tablets, and only rugged tablets
• Why we take things apart and show what’s inside
• The Microsoft Surface mystery
• The Microsoft Surface mystery
• Household items: coding, standards, and “2x” pics
• Household items: coding, standards, and “2x” pics
• Cat S60 — More than the naked eye can see
• Keeping an eye on the level of technology offered in consumer tech: Dell Venue 8
• Follow-up on iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
• An assessment of the Apple Pencil
• Will the Apple iPad Pro herald an era of “pro” use of tablets?
• What led to the Universal Stylus Initiative
• Replacing the Atom N2600
• Xplore Technologies acquires Motion — How it came about
• Xplore acquires Motion — what it means
• Conversation with Peter Poulin, CEO Motion Computing
• Storage wars
• Intrinsically safe ecom Tab-Ex: another rugged tablet based on Samsung hardware
• GoPro 4 — the GoPro phenomenon, how it came about, and why it matters
• The unpredictable nature of screen sizes
• Why OneNote for Android with handwriting is important
• Android on the desktop!
• Advances in capacitive touch and passive capacitive pens
• Advances in capacitive touch and passive capacitive pens
• Reporting from the road — sort of
• Unpacking the Xplore iX104 XC6
• Durabook R8300 — ghosts of GoBooks past
• Getac’s latest rugged convertible replaces the V8 with a turbo-4
• Samsung Galaxy S5 — raising the bar
• Android parlor trick
• More 4k video contemplations
• Does your Pentium have an Atom engine?
• Michael Dell’s keynote at Dell World 2013: reaching for the cloud
• Thoughts about display resolutions
• State of Outdoor-Viewable Displays Late 2013
• Two annoying trends
• Rugged Android device comparison table, and contemplations over Android in the rugged market
• October 1, 2013 — the day Moto Solutions and Honeywell/Intermec became serious about Android
• Optimizing the legacy Windows interface for touch and tablets
• Logic Supply’s logical approach to engineering their own systems
• Why the JTG Daugherty NASCAR racing team chose rugged Dells
• Rugged notebooks: challenges and opportunities
• How Motorola Solutions made two mobile computers condensation- and freezer-proof
• Handheld: Pursuit of a vision
• Itronix RIP
• Xplore adds Common Access Card reader-equipped rugged tablet for military and government
• When the fire chief wants iPads instead of rugged gear
• Not your father’s Celeron
• The needless demise of the netbook
• On the Microsoft front …
• Big changes at General Dynamics Itronix
• Surface with Windows 8 Pro pricing contemplations — an opportunity for traditional vendors of rugged tablets?
• Windows RT: how suitable is it for vertical markets? (Part II)
• Windows RT: how suitable is it for vertical markets? (Part I)
• Windows Surface tablets will be here shortly
• Motorola Solutions’ acquisition of Psion: Good, bad, or ugly?
• Ten things we’d like from PR folks
• “The Windows Marketplace for Mobile for windows mobile 6.x devices is closing”
• Performing under pressure
• Microsoft’s entry into tablet hardware a result of partner failure?
• Windows Phone 8…
• Android finally getting traction in vertical and industrial markets?
• The widening gulf between consumer and vertical market handhelds
• e-con Systems executive explains the reality of cameras in rugged computers
• The nature and potential of Windows 8 for ARM devices
• Will GPS drown in commercialism?
• The new iPad — both challenge and opportunity for rugged market manufacturers
• A conversation on imaging in rugged handhelds
• Ruggedized Android devices — status and outlook
• Windows 8: a bit of fear, uncertainty and doubt
• Do you have “Grandpa Boxes” in your lineup?
• “The Cloud”
• Another conversation with Paul Moore, Fujitsu’s Senior Director of Product Development
• The problem with benchmarks
• Conversation with Ambarella’s Chris Day about the state of still/video imaging in mobile computing devices
• Conversation with Ambarella’s Chris Day about the state of still/video imaging in mobile computing devices
• Is the race for tablet supremacy already over? Many developers think so.
• Is the race for tablet supremacy already over? Many developers think so.
• Microsoft….
• Why are cameras in mobile computers not any better?
• How we get news
• Bye-bye PXA processors? Probably not just yet.
• Microsoft announces…. nothing. Google follows suit.
• Motorola, and the corporation names, corporation games thing
• “10 tablets that never quite took off”
• The tablet wars: background and outlook
• What are discrete graphics, and why would you need them?
• New Intel Atoms, and how Oracle is helping Microsoft
• Android contemplations
• 4G
• Intel vPro technology—what is it all about?
• “Moorestown” — Intel’s new Z6xx Atom platform and how it fits in
• Publishing and the iPad
• Waterproofing rugged computing equipment
• Finally: decent HD video on Atom boxes thanks to Broadcom card
• Will industrial tablets benefit from the iPad?
• Consumerization of rugged markets?
• Will the iPad replace my iPhone?
• Windows Mobile and the vertical markets
• A look at Intel’s new Core i3/i5/i7 processors and how they will affect rugged computing
• Talking with Paul Moore, Fujitsu’s Senior Director of Product Development
• Tablet hype at fever pitch
• Slate and tablet computers: learning from the past
• Getac now offers 5-year warranties!
• New Atom processors: N450, D410 and D510
• The Atom processor predicament
• Apple stores supposedly transitioning from WinMo to iPod Touch
• Windows 7
• Getac to offer multi-touch on its V100 rugged Tablet PC
• Gorilla Glass — lighter and tougher display protection
• Gotcha, fool! Your friends at AT&T
• Deal killers: The Telco 2-year contracts
• The dangers of product photography
• Where rugged computers come from
• Palm and Windows Mobile and how the iPhone really changed everything
• Atom platform expands, but does it have a clear direction?
• The Intel Atom processor phenomenon
• The amazing success of “netbooks”
• The problem with Linux
• Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine — the shortsightedness of letting an incredible resource die
• Thoughts about ingress protection: eliminate potential points of failure
• Benchmarking popular mobile Intel processors
• Ultra-rugged waterproof displays
• Why is no one using the Marvell speedy and powerful PXA320?
• The digitizer mysery
• MIL-STD-810F 509.4 and thoughts on salt water exposure
• The Motion Computing F5
• Tablet PC: We could use a hammer….
• Electrovaya settles patent infringement suit
• XP Embedded: When benchmarks lie
• What happened to Symbol!?
• A video says more than a thousand pictures
• Shrinking military spending an opportunity for mobile vendors?
• Keeping track of who makes (and sells) what
• Where will Intel’s Atom chip fit in?
• What do we make of Geode, VIA and Intel A100 powered devices?
• Panasonic — Still top of the heap?
• Thoughts about rugged handhelds — the Juniper Archer
• Tests and reviews – how much punishment?
• Underwater computing?
• Marvell, not Intel
• The RuggedPCReview Blog launches