mactablet
06-06-2008, 01:15 PM
I recently took a day trip for work and it included doing some powerpoint presentations. I decided to see if I could pull it off using only the HTC advantage for the whole day. It worked pretty well actually.
Start:
Early flight at 6.30am. Used the Advantage in the Business lounge to surf the web and used RSS hub to check on some RSS feeds. This is a nice little app for feed reading. There's free wifi in the lounge so I connected and started Opera and the hotspot page came up. I clicked on connect and was then able to use the browser as well as RSS hub and check email.
So all in all I think I can get by with the HTC only for at least a day on the road. I'm going to a web conference in a couple of weeks and I might be tempted to try and go HTC only for it too over the three days away.
The Job:
I gave a couple of presentations and did some training. For the training the guys used full size laptops. For the presentations I hooked up the Advantage with the 4 in 1 cable to a video projector. I hooked it up with the VGA out and the image wasn't as crisp as I would have liked. I'm not sure whether it was a setting or whether it just can't render text from powerpoint crisply but the text on the jpeg images was certainly a bit fuzzy. Not a show stopper but not perfect. The other thing I never quite got figured was how to stop the unti from going to sleep while presenting. It kept turning off if I got distracted and talked too long on a slide. A push of a button brought it back but it was annoying to have the projector constantly throwing up a blank screen. I'll set the unit to not go to sleep before presenting next time. There really should be a setting on the TV out setup that says for it to not go to sleep while using an external monitor or something like that.
As with a Tablet PC the start of every presentation was spent explaining the Advantage to oh's and ah's :). They seemed to be most impressed by the battery life.
After:
Arrived back at the Airport and downloaded emails, surfed the web and checked feeds while enjoying good coffee and a great cheese plate.
On the plane ride back I tried out the video viewability but couldn't get into it. I think my PSP is going to be a better media type unit for travelling. So I fired up some music and actually got quite a bit of work done in Word Mobile. I used only the HTC's keyboard even though I had my Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard with me. I just really didn't need to get it out. I think if the plane ride had of been longer I would have but it was only two hours. It was quite pleasant working this way with some music and it made the guy sitting next to me feel bad because he had an eeepc. Mine's smaller than yours buddy, haha.
Start:
Early flight at 6.30am. Used the Advantage in the Business lounge to surf the web and used RSS hub to check on some RSS feeds. This is a nice little app for feed reading. There's free wifi in the lounge so I connected and started Opera and the hotspot page came up. I clicked on connect and was then able to use the browser as well as RSS hub and check email.
So all in all I think I can get by with the HTC only for at least a day on the road. I'm going to a web conference in a couple of weeks and I might be tempted to try and go HTC only for it too over the three days away.
The Job:
I gave a couple of presentations and did some training. For the training the guys used full size laptops. For the presentations I hooked up the Advantage with the 4 in 1 cable to a video projector. I hooked it up with the VGA out and the image wasn't as crisp as I would have liked. I'm not sure whether it was a setting or whether it just can't render text from powerpoint crisply but the text on the jpeg images was certainly a bit fuzzy. Not a show stopper but not perfect. The other thing I never quite got figured was how to stop the unti from going to sleep while presenting. It kept turning off if I got distracted and talked too long on a slide. A push of a button brought it back but it was annoying to have the projector constantly throwing up a blank screen. I'll set the unit to not go to sleep before presenting next time. There really should be a setting on the TV out setup that says for it to not go to sleep while using an external monitor or something like that.
As with a Tablet PC the start of every presentation was spent explaining the Advantage to oh's and ah's :). They seemed to be most impressed by the battery life.
After:
Arrived back at the Airport and downloaded emails, surfed the web and checked feeds while enjoying good coffee and a great cheese plate.
On the plane ride back I tried out the video viewability but couldn't get into it. I think my PSP is going to be a better media type unit for travelling. So I fired up some music and actually got quite a bit of work done in Word Mobile. I used only the HTC's keyboard even though I had my Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard with me. I just really didn't need to get it out. I think if the plane ride had of been longer I would have but it was only two hours. It was quite pleasant working this way with some music and it made the guy sitting next to me feel bad because he had an eeepc. Mine's smaller than yours buddy, haha.