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Conrad Blickenstorfer added 2 new blog posts. View Conrad Blickenstorfer's blog posts Nov. 21, 2007

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1. Do you use computers outdoors?: Yes

2. Do you use a Trimble or TDS handheld?: No

3. How did you learn about this site?: other

3. If other, how did you learn about the site?: Julia Oliver from Sanda Communications

Tell us a little about yourself and how you'd like to benefit from this site.: We publish Pen Computing, RuggedPCReview.com and other technology sites and have been reviewing pen computers, PDAs, handhelds, ruggeds, slates and tablets since 1993. So this TDS Web 2.0 experiment should be interesting.

4. Do you belong to other online communities?: MySpace, YouTube

4. If other, what other community sites do you visit?: Zoints

Add widgets to this box?

Well, okay, I love gadgets, especially ones that do real work and can take a licking, but I'm not sure if I know what sort of widget I am supposed to put in here, or where to get one. Sure, they annoyingly populate some back layer on my iMac, but here?

If we get a Trimble Nomad for review sometime soon, we'll probably subject it to unspeakable abuse, do a video of it, and place it here.

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My Trimble Jacket

Sometimes it's good to have a way with words. :-) Hey, when the good people at Sanda Communications came up with this awesome idea of doing a website as a venue to introduce the great Nomad and then for Trimble and TDS customers to hang out and form a community, why, I just couldn't help comment on that. So I pontificated on Web 2.0 and all those communities springing up all over the place and so on, and whether or not that is a good thing. Well, apparently the brilliance of that thought process… Continue

Posted on November 29th, 2007 at 10:55pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Thoughts about reviewing and comparing rugged machines

Here at RuggedPCReview.com we're in the lucky position of being able to do hands-on reviews and tests of just about every rugged piece of equipment out there. The reality of "hands-on" is often quite different from what you see in glossy brochures or PDF pages. A brochure doesn't provide the "feel" of a machine, whether it feels rock-solid or chintzy.

Ruggedness specs themselves also only say that much. I've often held a rugged device in my hands, looked at the specs, and went to mysel…

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Posted on November 21st, 2007 at 10:12am — No Comments (Add)

Full review of the Nomad 800 at RuggedPCReview.com

Well, this was fun. We probably spent more time with the Nomad than with most rugged handhelds and notebooks that come to our lab. The 800 MHz Marvell PXA320 processor certainly had something to do with it. The difference between it and the 624MHz PXA270 is much larger than we expected. The new chip just powers through tasks that resulted in delays or sluggish response with the older PXA270. And having that massive battery was nice as well. It's absolutely no fun having to worry about the batter… Continue

Posted on September 24th, 2007 at 1:33pm — No Comments (Add)

Taking the Nomad for a dive

We completed our review of the Trimble/TDS Nomad and taped the whole thing. Yes, it went underwater. Did it survive? Watch the video of our review.

Posted on September 18th, 2007 at 11:22am — 2 Comments (Add)

The Nomad arrives!

Well, thanks to the much appreciated efforts of Julia Oliver and Amy Urban (and likely others who shall herewith be thanked profusely), a brand-spanking new Trimble Nomad arrived a few days ago here at RuggedPCReview.com central. I was so excited about it that I snuck it up a few spots in the review pipeline and so we'll probably put it through its paces next week. However, here a few first impressions:

Nice, neat packaging, all in environmentally friendly cardboard. The powerbrick comes with…

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Posted on September 17th, 2007 at 1:43pm — 2 Comments (Add)

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