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Tokash Hands-On Experience |
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Written by Bjorn Stromberg
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Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
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John Tokash was at the Maker's Faire and got his hands on a TabletKiosk eo, a Founder MiniNote, and a Samsung Q1 for a cursory review.
Here's some of his responses:
- All 3 devices seemed responsive and not sluggish at all during my interactions.
- The Touch Pack program launcher is very pleasant.
- DialKeys will take some getting used to, but I think it will be only slightly less usable than the treo keyboard.
- Attendees seemed a little skeptical, but impressed.
- The Founder UMPC is really thin compared to the Samsung and eo.
- I agree with JK when he says that you can rest your hand on the screen without it interfering with your writing. That's nice!
- The screen zooming is faster than I expected and much more readable than I expected, although several control panels (touch optimizations, system) become blank grey windows at the scaled 1024 resolution.
- Browsing the web with the UMPC form factor was great.
- I like the touch point mouse embedded in the eo. I'm guessing that some old DirectX full screen games won't respond well to the touch screen, so an external mouse or a touch point is going to be useful in those cases. The Samsung doesn't have a similar feature.
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