{"id":61,"date":"2005-06-27T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T02:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2007-03-22T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T16:25:47","slug":"is-bigger-always-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/is-bigger-always-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Is bigger better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/PCMvsPDA01.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There is a new choice in mobile computing for the museum market.  <a href=\"http:\/\/adocere.com\/\">Adocere<\/a> has developed a mid-size mobile device called the Weblet.  It is a delicious cross between a tablet and a PDA.  The 8.5&#8243; screen certainly had my designer drooling.  My response?  A nice new addition to my toolkit.  <\/p>\n<p>How will I decide what device to recommend for a project?   I&#8217;ll determine which device can make the interactive content accessible to the visitor in the most transparent way.  Screen size, processing power, battery life, form factor, weight and cost will all be considered.  The visitor&#8217;s needs and the content parameters will dictate the best device(s).<\/p>\n<p>Advantages of the Weblet that I see already:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bigger screen (compared to PDA) for more flexibility in displaying content<\/li>\n<li>Easier to multi-use the exact same content on the Weblet &#038; desktop\/laptop<\/li>\n<li>Awesome battery life &#8211; at least 5 hours already!<\/li>\n<li>Case designed as needed, not stuck with consumer buttons for calendar, contacts&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Better price point than tablets<\/li>\n<li>Lighter than tablet\/laptop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I&#8217;m still in love with PDAs when they meet my needs.  Personally, I think the form factor of PDAs can&#8217;t be beat.  They are light enough to be held or worn around the neck without fatigue.  The screen size on a PDA is plenty big to share information without distracting from museum objects.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I&#8217;m good at separating my personal opinion from my professional opinion.  Because when it comes right down to it, it doesn&#8217;t matter what I like, it matters what YOU like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/PCMvsPDA01.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There is a new choice in mobile computing for the museum market.  <a href=\"http:\/\/adocere.com\/\">Adocere<\/a> has developed a mid-size mobile device called the Weblet.  It is a delicious cross between a tablet and a PDA.  The 8.5&#8243; screen certainly had my designer drooling.  My response? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}