Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “LinkNYC Public Tablet”.
So we’re here today to check out some new stuff with the link. M.I.C hubs is part of a big New York City effort, they’re, putting thousands of these hubs all over the city to provide free Wi-Fi, but there’s also going to be an Android tablet installed in each hub and that’s what we’re gon na check out today. So this is it, you can see: we’ve got Internet free, calling city services maps and then this sort of puts it back. So you know, if you’re new to New York, you want to find your way around. You can pull this up and it’ll just bring up this Google map slightly slow. I think that’s, not the gigabit.
That’S broken the processor, but yeah, and this will do all the you know things you expect from a Google map and that’s exactly where we are 1315. So they’re gon na install these all the way up. Third Avenue is the current plan really all the way off the island, so it’s just gon na go straight up Manhattan and in the Bronx. Well, another couple of things gone, but that’s that’s how the conduits are stretched.
So then we want to go out and go back to home. It sort of works just like you’d expect an Android tablet. There’S the home button, the back button.
If we want to access city services here we are, you can make a complaint, someone’s parked bad taste, the money or the city get a 3-1-1 app. Let’S find out stuff right, your neighborhood pay parking ticket or you can just go on the Internet. So this is all fed by a gigabit cable that we’re running in a conduit up and down the sidewalk.
So you know: we’ve got other services. There’S audio case you wan na plug your headphones in 911. If there’s an emergency, you can just push that button. That summons it – and this is the dialpad most importantly – if your phone is running low on battery as mine, currently is there’s USB power which you can plug in down here and then it’s charging. This is a importantly, a power only connection, so you don’t have to worry about catching malware or anything or you can’t upload files or anything from it.
So it’s obviously not the most powerful tablet we’ve ever seen, but having these on street corners all around the city be a really cool thing. .