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Motion upgrade ultra-compact Tablet PC with shock-resistant SSD drive

Chris Davies, May 8th 2007 Discuss [0]

Looks like Motion Computing got a little fed up of Samsung catching all the headlines with the launch of their Q1 Ultra UMPC, and have decided to hit back with an upgrade to their compact LS800 Tablet PC. Already straddling the line between full-sized Tablet and cut-down ultra-portable, the LS800 has been available with a choice of pen or touch screens, and now Motion are expanding the range with a solid-state hard-drive. Read The Full Story

Motion’s LE1700 appears on film

Chris Davies, Mar 26th 2007 Discuss [0]

Toward the tail-end of last week we found out it was coming; now GottaBeMobile have had some hands-on time with Motion's latest uber-slate, the LE1700, and have come away pretty damn impressed. There's a full video review to be watched but to summarise, the most exciting points for me are the news that there'll be a MultiTouch (i.e. Active and Passive digitiser) option with the SXGA screen, which is a first for Tablets, and that there's a built-in HSDPA 3G modem. With prices starting at $1,999 for a Core Solo model, and $2,199 for a Core 2 Solo, it's surprisingly reasonably priced. GottaBeMobile video review of the LE1700 Tablet PC [GottaBeMobile]

Motion to raise the Slate bar

Chris Davies, Mar 23rd 2007 Discuss [0]

God bless the FCC; if you wanted a better way of getting pre-announcement product details then you'd have to start kidnapping company execs and dosing them up with sodium pentothal. A reader over on GottaBeMobile has gone digging and found a filing by slate Tablet PC experts Motion for a new machine so far called the LE1700. It's not only a slender little bugger, it's a highly spec'd one too; Motion apparently have their own version of the active/passive dual-mode touchscreen, called WriteTouch, and it'll be the first slate with an SXGA resolution screen. Read The Full Story

Motion’s Medical Tablet caught on film

Chris Davies, Feb 22nd 2007 Discuss [0]

Look, a new Tablet PC handbag! Well, no, it's actually not much good for holding your lipstick and one of those tiny pens that are always so handy, but if you're strutting around a hospital you might fancy one of Motion's new C5 mobile clinical assistants. That's a fancy name for a ruggedised tablet: 3lbs in weight, wipe-clean for those unpleasing urine spills, and a 2-megapixel camera for snapping pictures of the cute patients. In this video, shot by Scott Mase, Motion's Scott Eckert demonstrates the slinky $2199 machine. I'd be very curious if my doctor whipped one of these out at my next consultation (not least because the NHS is so poor they're having to recycle dog hips into the elderly). Google Video [via Scobleizer]