Articles about handwriting

A lot of you have asked me or commented about a recommendation for a good tablet that can do handwriting recognition. It's not easy to answer this question, that's why I thought of writing this post and clarify things a little bit.Since the beginning of tablets you're used to see someone holding a tablet PC like an agenda and writing with a stylus. That was until earlier last year, when Apple introduced the iPad. Slates are not for writing The iPad marks the beginning of the slate tablets ...

The most anticipated piece of software for next year is Windows 8, the operating system that's supposed to bring ARM to a position to threat Intel's decades old x86 supremacy by lowering computing requirements to a point where current tablet hardware could be able to run Microsoft's OS fluently, with all the apps we normally use.There's a lot of time left before the official launch, but info keeps leaking about the new features in Windows 8. The latest video shows the TIP (Tablet Input Pane...

If you remember, ASUS announced four tablets at CES 2011 in January, but only delivered two of them: EEE Slate EP121 and EEE Pad Transformer. The latter was a success so big that ASUS failed to meed demand in the first few weeks, but people are still waiting for the EEE Pad Slider and EEE Pad MeMo tablets to show up in stores.I'm glad to report we have news about the EEE Pad MeMo who got a small upgrade to 3D and changed its name to ASUS EEE Pad Memo 3D (codename ME173). Yeap, 3D fever got i...

Remember when we've talked about the Microsoft Courier concept, a dual screen tablet that features an innovative interface which takes advantage of the two displays? Well, it seems that Microsoft is really dedicated to bring this device to market sometime in 2011, an employee told New York Times.Of course that's more like a rumor about a rumor, but that doesn't mean it can't come true. If the device is half what they've presented in a video of the Courier concept I'll buy two of them.One...

Microsoft is the latest manufacturer who expressed an interest in touch screen tablets and even presented a touch tablet concept called Courier, which features 2 screens and can be used exactly as notebook for writing plus all the goodies associated with the digital world. The video below shows exactly what the Microsoft Courier can do and how:The two displays are 7 inch in diagonal at least (the correct dimension remains to be confirmed) and are multitouch enabled and are designed for w...