Rob Bushway is speculating that the new Motion LE1600 tablet might mount a serious challenge to the HP TC1100 , which has been considered by many (myself included) to be one of the best designs on the tablet market to date.
Rob’s comparison is interesting but I for one think that they are dickering enough that each will develop a strong following in their own right.
At the end of the day mobility is in the eye of the beholder. The device that seems ideal to me may be too big and heavy for some and will not have the integrated features that others would insist upon. The new Motion device has a nice 12 inch screen, which I think is great, but would probably not sway James “Mr. Mobility” Kendrick from the more portable TC1100 he has recently been bogging about.
In short I think that the new Motion will be on excellent tablet, but it will not meet everyone’s needs – because no one tablet can. Device selection is and will continue to be a series of trade-offs.
One feature that Motion tends to include that I would like to see more of is the finger print reader. Logging on to a tablet in slate mode is vulnerable to shoulder-surfers and the bio-metric scanner mitigates this to a degree – well done Motion.