Bottom line? Sounds like the current tablet concept works best for for consumers, not producers, of data. Needs work.
Bruce Chitiea SafeSectors, Inc. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Rbase and Tablets > From: "Mike Byerley" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, February 27, 2012 7:30 am > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > > > Tablets for data input is a non starter in my opinion (notice of highly > opinionated individual). > > By the time you add the additional hardware necessary to be anywhere > productive at data entry on a tablet, you have exceeded the price of most > netbooks and quite a few laptops, which will have a fully functioning > Windows operating system on it. > > Keyboard on a screen, still a clunky, toylike crutch for entering anything > meaningful. > Even using Swype, you might muster 35 wpm for the fastest AFAIK. > Voice to Text works halfway decent if there is no background noice at all, > again rendering it impractical for use in data entry, particularly if the > entry is meaningless with respect to actual words and phrases. > > Seems like tablets are the new bright shiny thing that everyone wants and > because they are so neat, they start hunting for actual uses for them. I > think they fall woefully short as a computer interface. > > Again, (notice of highly opinionated individual) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "MDRD" <[email protected]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 8:44 AM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Rbase and Tablets > > > Thanks for the info.. > > I think some of my clients would like to use 1 or 2 of our forms on a > tablet, they think it would be cool to to walk around with a tablet and > input data. Really a nice laptop in each room would work better. Also, > there are so many different tablets with different sizes and resolutions it > might just add another layer of headaches. > > > Marc > > From: John Engwer > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:43 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Rbase and Tablets > > Marco, > > One of my clients asked me to connect her Kindle Fire (Android) to the RBASE > application that she is using. I used a free RDP app called AccessToGo to > accomplish the task. The ATG app works well and my RBASE applications are > fully functional. However, the Fire has a small screen so it takes a lot of > screen resizing to operate the RBASE application. I may redesign some of > the forms and reports to work better with the small screen if there is > enough interest from my clients. > > Note: the ATG will not work if you are RDPing to a server. It does not > support Network Level Authentication. > > > > John Engwer > > (412) 751-2433 > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco > Groeneveld > Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:13 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Rbase and Tablets > > > > Hi, > > > > I have tried a special DB App with connection to R:BASE and HTML (with > CodeCharge), but I think a Remote Client to a server with R:BASE is the best > at this moment. > > > > Are there any other experiences and which Remote Client would be the best to > be used on iPad or Android Tablet ? > > > > Marco > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: MDRD > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 4:32 PM > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Rbase and Tablets > > > > There was a short thread last summer about tablets and RBase but I have > not heard much about that lately. Any suggestions on how to use a tablet > with RBase or which tablet is best? > > > > Thanks > > Marc
