When an HTC Evo View / HTC Flyer Might Come in Handy…
So I have to say I am slightly impressed with the HTC Flyer / Evo View 4G. Too be honest, what I like about it is really the fact that, thanks to it’s pen, it’s one of the few tablets out there that actually solves something. Most tablets are fun to play with but truthfully there aren’t really too many situations where they solve a need. Tablets kind of just sit somewhere between a phone and a real laptop. I have a larger screen so I can do things a bit more comfortably than on my phone, but it’s not quite as functional as a full blown laptop. Therefore, for most people, there’s no real need to have a tablet. It’s more of a luxury item, that sits nicely on the coffee table that they use when they don’t feel like picking up their actual laptop to check email or browse the web.
Here’s where the Flyer / Evo View tickles my fancy. It may not be bridging that gap between tablet and laptop, but instead it replaces another, perhaps less remembered, piece of equipment; the spiral notebook. It’s hard for a normal tablet to do this because it doesn’t have a pen that works for it (we won’t get into capacitive vs resistive screens here) and it doesn’t have software to make using that pen feel more natural, like a real pen would function. The HTC Flyer / Evo View does this pretty well, so that made me wonder; how would people who use a spiral notebook a lot in their daily jobs react to it? Would it make their lives easier or would they panic and throw it at me? Let’s find out.
Check out our HTC Flyer / Evo View 4G Review
Check out our HTC Flyer / Evo View 4G Basic How Tos
Any other uses you guys can think of?
Special thanks to the people who took the time out to share their thoughts on the tablet! Please check out their sites for more information on them, their services, and/or products!-
- Matthew Carona, VP of Product and Business Development at Qello – http://Qello.com
- Michele Ragussis, Head Chef of Dutch Boy Burger – http://DutchBoyBurger.com
- Christopher Hench, Fashion and Portrait Photographer – http://ChristopherHench.com
- Talya Neginsky, PACE University Student
I love the real world professional examples. Great video!
I’m an elementary school teacher. I can think of multiple uses for this device when a classroom is empty because the students left for gym, library, lunch, etc: instead of scrambling to write notes about everything that happened / ideas I have to change the room or my approach to something, I could snap pictures of something relevant to the topic and then write some minimal notes on the picture in order to remember what my thought was.
For example, I could snap a picture of a messy library that never gets cleaned up after free reading time, and if my idea was to, say, put up a reminder poster, or turn the bookcase around, I could just snap the picture of the mess and draw in a little poster or draw an arrow around the bookcase going 180 degrees. That isn’t a fantastic example, but hopefully you get my point! It would take a little longer to write out the problem and my idea for a solution, and every second counts.
I look forward to the day when I can use tablets throughout the day, for note taking notes, making observations, recording progress, etc, but frankly, the tech isn’t there yet; none of the tablets on the market beat a pen and a clipboard when it comes to sheer speed (I tried once, and as much as I wanted it to work, it only took half an hour before it became obvious that it would never work). Hopefully this will change once the Krait-based snapdragons / OMAP 5 / Tegra 3 make it to market!
PS: If you’re not using that Flyer anymore, I know someone who would be happy to take it off your hands 🙂
I respect all that you do, David.
But you used too instead of to in your second sentence..
These are great portable Tablets! But will there ever be custom ROMs for the EVO View 4g??
its a great way to take screenshots of facebook pics and saving them to gallery much faster aand simpler way of getting photos for your library