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Computers in Libraries 2011: Tablets & Superphones
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Slides from my Cybertour at Computers in Libraries 2011 on March 22, 2011.
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Computers in Libraries 2011: Tablets & Superphones
- Superphones, Tablets & Libraries Computers in Libraries 2011
- 2007 before the iPhone
- 2010 after the iPhone
- Mobiles are everywhere
- Desktops lag
- smartphones will dominate just a matter of time
- Rise of the Superphone Beyond the smartphone
- LG Optimus 2X
- Samsung Galaxy SII
- Motorola Atrix it slices, it dices, it juliennes fries
- Motorola Atrix look carefully
- Motorola Atrix it’s a laptop, too
- Motorola Atrix biometric security
- the shape of the future is flat tablets, tablets everywhere Photo by fdecomite - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/2929463019/in/set-72157607765146808/
- iPad there is no escaping it Photo by Yutaka Tsutano - http://flic.kr/p/7RrE6p
- Samsung Galaxy Tab First iPad competitor Photo by TAKA@P.P.R.S - http://flic.kr/p/8GCSyB
- Motorola Xoom Sweet Honeycomb
- Blackberry Playbook Slick, but predictable
- Lenovo U1 Ideapad best of both worlds?
- HP PalmPad can a tablet save WebOS?
- conclusion
- it just isn’t evenly distributed. PHOTO BY DOMINICCAMPBELL - HTTP://FLIC.KR/P/6K3D4A
- Douglas Adams said... I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- Douglas Adams said... I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
- Douglas Adams said... I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
- Douglas Adams said... I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Adoption/Innovation Curve where are you? where are your patrons?
- Jason Griffey Email: griffey@gmail.com Site: jasongriffey.net gVoice: 423-443-4770 Twitter: @griffey Other: Perpetual Beta ALA TechSource Head of Library Information Technology http://pinboard.in/u:griffey University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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- What I wanted to talk about today was Tablets...mostly. A couple of new pieces of audio/video tech at the very end, but mostly I wanted to talk about Tablets. So...what’s a tablet? What do we mean...mostly, we just mean a screen that acts as both the display AND the interface for a computer. Prior to just the last couple of years we usually interacted with these types of interfaces with a tool...stylus, etc. Now we use our fingers.\n\nthe interface of the future is touch\n\nMicrosoft releases Windows 7 Touch Pack as a free download\n
- 7.33 million iPads during the quarter, 14.79 million iPads since launching the tablet in mid-2010\n
- Sold a million units in less than 2 months\n\n
- out March 27th, 32 Gigs, $599\n
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- February 9th 2011 press conference\n
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