I hope they are really quick thoughts, because they don’t seem to very well thought.
Rob Bushway from Gottabemobile.com posted his ideas on UX180P after using 24 hours. He even took Boy Scouts’ thoughts. (what a mistake!) But i think as a respected Tablet user, he should have cared less for the keyboard that is approved to be hard to use, and cared much more for inking.
Touch at this resolution works, but it isn’t a good experience. Everything is too small. I use the mouse and mouse buttons all the time, rarely using the stylus or my finger. But it is nice to know that it is there if I want to.
BTW: Sony really, really messed up by not putting the Tablet PC OS on it. Should have been there from the beginning.
The keyboard is really nice ( and a must have in my opinion), but the lack of textual feed back on the keys is bothersome - the keys lay almost flat to the surface. Like others have reported, the missing right hand shift key is a big pain. For example, to type an email address, you have to hold down the shift key and the 2 at the same time to type an @. That means your right thumb has to stretch a good ways to press the 2. That said, this keyboard solution is sooo much better than the on-screen keyboard that comes with the Origamis. You can actually see where you are typing. After having used both an eo with no keyboard and ux180p with a keyboard, I’d be hard pressed to go to an origami without a keyboard again. The experience, to me, is that much better. My wife immediately took to it, there was no fumbling around with software, etc. Just type.
Origami (UMPC) is about next generation computing, inking, but from Rob’s eyes i saw UX a Blackberry running XP and naturally it doesn’t need Tablet. (UX is not an Origami, i’m aware of that)
