Ilium Software has recently released InScribe as an alternative onscreen keyboard for tablet PCs and DialKeys for UMPC. It can be downloaded for free right now and runs on any Tablet PC.

A few people have taken a look at this product already, including James Kendrick of jkOnTheRun in this article. It’s got a number of features including a way that you can drag your finger/stylus between keys and it recognizes presses by change of direction and the ability to make your own keyboard layouts. But I just wanted to show how useful it is as a simple transparent touch screen keyboard.

Here’s a brief video showing me using it on my eo i7210 UMPC to type into notepad.

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Shortly after receiving my eo i7210 UMPC from TabletKiosk, I tested out whether everything worked out okay when I put the PC to sleep using Windows XP’s hibernate feature. This feature will serialize the state of memory to disk and completely power off the PC saving battery compared to a standby. Then when you power the machine on, it quickly boots back to the state it was originally in. In other words you don’t have to restart all your apps and reopen all your documents, etc.

Hibernation can be a problem though if some of the software on your PC doesn’t cooperate. The OS tells the apps when it’s suspending them and later resuming them. But if they don’t act appropriately, you can end up with an application that gets very confused and ceases to function properly after a resume from hibernate.

It just so happens that a fairly critical function of the eo i7210 failed the hibernate resume test for me.

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I preordered my TabletKiosk eo i7210 on August 10th. They were supposed to start shipping “by the end of August.” Come August 31st, my order status was still pending and my credit card hadn’t been charged.

Apparently, they arrived in the California warehouses late that day and TabletKiosk needed to perform some burn in testing prior to shipping them. As of Friday, September 1st, they hadn’t started shipping either…the first pre-orderer, Dennis Rice at GottaBeMobile.com, hadn’t gotten notice of shipping.

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