Touch Screen Gadget

Pharos Traveler 137 GPS Navigation

Posted by sawaru | Category: GPS Navigation & Guidance System

Pharos Science & Applications offers a different type of pay-as-you-go service on its unlocked GPS-enabled Windows Mobile smart phones: Initially, U.S. maps and service are free, but you must pay for access to maps of Canada, Western Europe, or Eastern Europe at the rate of $2 per day, $5 per week, $7 per month, or $50 per year. (Pharos says that it will soon offer maps of China, Russia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil on the same terms.)

Once you obtain the maps you need (a step that does require a network connection), nothing more is tied to network coverage. Instead, the maps and location-based services are available only for the period of access you pay for. During that period, however, the unit is fully functional as a GPS navigation device, capable of generating routes and identifying your location, regardless of whether you have got a cell phone signal. And because Pharos’s phones are sold unlocked, you can use them on any GSM-based network.

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Archos 5 and Archos 7 introduced

Posted by sawaru | Category: Portable Media Player & Storage

Archos did hinting on its new Internet Media Tables.Three new models have been introduced, the Archos 5 and Archos 7, which both include high-resolution touchscreens, WiFi, up to 320GB storage and slender casings, and the Archos 5g which adds 3G HSDPA cellular broadband.

The Archos 5 is available in 60GB, 120GB and 250GB capacities, with a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen and 0.5-inch thickness, while somewhat curiously the Archos 5g only comes in one 30GB variety.  The bigger Archos 7, meanwhile, has a 7-inch touchscreen (still at 800 x 480), either 160GB or 320GB capacity and is 0.63-inches thick.

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Home integrated public transport tracker

Posted by sawaru | Category: Home Appliance

Victoria Deakins rarely has that feeling. After starting her day in the kitchen, she crosses to a touch screen embedded in the wall of her hallway, which tells her exactly how far away the next bus is.

“It’s very handy,” she says. “Just two minutes before the time you can run out the door.”

This is not some futuristic vision, but Dartford, Kent, where the Bridge housing development is part of the Thames Gateway regeneration. The screen in Ms Deakins’s kitchen is linked to a global positioning system that tracks buses. An alarm tells her when a bus is approaching her stop.

Soon the screen will give her other information, such as queuing times on the M25, railway updates and the availability of spaces in car parks.

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Faster touchscreen controller speed up process

Posted by admin | Category: Trend Watch & News

The new STMPE811 from STMicroelectronics is a four-wire resistive touchscreen controller featuring autonomous functionality to minimize demands on the host processor. For embedded designers, this frees valuable CPU cycles to ease pressures on performance, power consumption and response times.

Built-in features include an internal 12bit ADC for high resolution as well as 128 x 32bit FIFO data buffers for smooth position tracking. There are also features for accurate position identification and a window-masking function to support multiple sense windows. Special low-power design features achieve active current below 1mA, idle current less than 1µA, and an ultralow-power 150nA hibernation mode.

By combining these functions into a 3mm x 3mm QFN-16 package, the STMPE811 saves footprint and extends battery lifetime in portable applications such as PDAs, mobile phones, GPS receivers, game consoles and POS terminals.

The STMPE811 is the latest member of the company’s S-Touch range of touch-sensor controller solutions optimized for high sensitivity, high integration and low power consumption. The family also includes the STMPE1208S and STMPE821 capacitive touch controllers. Further new product introductions are scheduled for later in 2008.

The STMPE811 is sampling at 95 cents in quantities of 10,000 pieces, with mass production forecast for this quarter.

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Magellan Maestro 4210 4.3" Touchscreen Auto GPS Navigation System

Posted by admin | Category: GPS Navigation & Guidance System

4.3" wide color touch screen and expanded built-in database offer an extraordinary and amazingly easy navigation experience! 6 million Points of Interest and AAA TourBook guide enable you to find business and recreation spots throughout the U.S. and Canada. Touch the screen to get an instant route with voice guidance in seconds.

The elegant and ultra-thin Magellan Maestro 4210 offers expanded maps, Points of Interest and exclusive AAA TourBook guide information so you can find virtually anywhere in seconds! The large 4.3" wide color touch screen adds pleasure to driving. See your route and position on the map, plus distance to destination, arrival time, street names and more. Turn-by-turn voice guidance offers worry-free directions without even looking at the screen.

Travel around town or across the entire U.S., Canada, or even Puerto Rico with detailed built-in maps. 6 million pre-programmed Points of Interest (POI) make it easy to locate coffee, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs and more near your position or near any city. Search POIs by name or category with just a few touches of the screen. Touch a POI icon for nearby services on the interactive map and see the address and phone number (when available) and get an instant route.

Ultra-thin & stylish: The thinnest personal navigation device available combines style and functionality in a pocket-sized design.

4.3" wide WQVGA color touch screen: The large touch screen shows your position, Points of Interest, route, ETA and more on the interactive map.

Innovative easy-to-use interface: Amazingly easy-to-use, route to your destination in seconds without even needing to read the instructions.

AAA TourBook: Built-in guide information gives you instant access to AAA approved and rated lodging and restaurants, recommended attractions, discount locations and roadside assistance.*

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Blackberry Bold, iPhone-like with 3G

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone

Research in Motion’s (RIMM) new BlackBerry Bold should be a big hit with IT operations professionals convinced the iPhone isn’t an enterprise-class mobile device but driven to near-aneurysm by discontented employees demanding them.

The device is largely as expected–an iPhonish-looking thing with both GPS and Wi-Fi, 1GB of permanent flash memory, a 2-megapixel camera, full HTML browsing, 3G support on GSM networks with HSDPA access and, of course, the BlackBerry’s one-trick killer app: instant, secure email. That’s a compelling combination for business users and casual ones not easily swayed by the iPhone’s hype juggernaut as well. Indeed, Citigroup analyst Jim Suva says it could boost RIM’s quarterly shipments by 200,000 to 400,000.

But perhaps not without a bit of struggle. The BlackBerry Bold won’t ship until as late as August, which means Apple (AAPL) could beat it to market with the enterprise-friendly 3G iPhone it’s rumored to be uncrating at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference in June. Which has got to worry RIM. After all, the first-generation iPhone had claimed a 28% market share by the fourth quarter of 2007. That’s still less than the BlackBerry, which holds about a 41% market share, but the iPhone hasn’t even been on the market a year.

[digitaldaily.allthingsd]

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Windows Mobile 7 improving functionalities

Posted by admin | Category: Smartphone, Trend Watch & News, Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile Group , roadmap to Windows Mobile 7.

Unwired View is reporting that handset manufacturer MWG will be releasing a plethora of new Windows Mobile phone. In their upcoming roadmap, it seems that there will be releasing a Windows Mobile 7 phone by the end of the year 2008!
The roadmap of devices to be released, according to Unwired View:

 
Q3 2008 has only one handset scheduled, and that’s a slim 12.5 mm MWG Rici Windows Mobile  6.1 smartphone with 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.2 Mbps HSUPA connectivity, 3 megapixel camera and GPS.
Q4 2008 gets much more interesting with 4 pretty impressive devices scheduled. And the first of them - MWG Flame II is supposed to to run on Windows mobile 7! Other MWG Flame 2 specs include big 3.5″ or higher (touchscreen, I’m sure) display, advanced multimedia features, 3.2 megapixel camera and GPS.
MWG Iris is a slim touchscreen slider with QWERTY keyboard, 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 5.2 HSUPA connectivity and GPS. There’s another non- touchscreen phone model called Graphite II, but no specs for it are defined yet.
And MWG also plans to have an ultraportable PC, called MWG Walk PC for the end of 2008, with Vista OS and built-in 3G. My guess is, it will be one of MID/UMPC devices along the lines of HTC Shift UMPC.
In the begriming of 2009 we’ll se 2 more Windows Mobile 7 equipped smartphones from MWG. Slim, multimedia centric MWG Atom IV, with 7.2 HSDPA and 5.2 HSUPA connectivity, 3.2 camera and GPS. And 12.5 mm slim, messaging oriented QWERTY slider MWG Vix with some kind of novel keyboard, 3.2  camera and GPS.

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HTC P3470 India launched

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone, Windows Mobile

The GPS-equipped Windows Mobile smartphone is an all-touchscreen device with large screen and easy to use navigation wheel. Microsoft Outlook and other Office Mobile products are naturally pre-installed to help mobile professionals be more productive while on-the-go. Plus, a number of available third-party apps can further expand the functionality of the HTC P3470.

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AVN-6610 great user experience

Posted by admin | Category: GPS Navigation & Guidance System

Features and performance
The AVN6610 comes with built-in DVD ROM-based GPS navigation as standard. Maps are provided by Navteq and include building outlines for major urban centers in the United States, as well an updated POI database with 8.3 million entries. On first connecting the device and installing the GPS antenna, we found that the navigation system took longer than expected to find its bearings–around 20 minutes of driving around. Once it did get its satellite fix, the system proved itself to be quite accurate, but not pinpoint-precise, often giving us our current location to within the nearest quarter block. 

Destination entry for addresses is extremely straightforward, requiring users simply to key in the street number, street name, and city name via the onscreen keypad. Before entering a destination, users have to configure the map to focus on a specific area of the country, a feature we like as the system is then able to provide a more refined and relevant list of destination options by graying out letters for non-applicable address (on the other side of the country, for example) during the address entry. We also like the five programmable shortcut buttons along the bottom of the destination-entry screen for calling up common locations, as well as the one-touch Home button.

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Lexus in-car multimedia control

Posted by admin | Category: Car & Bike, GPS Navigation & Guidance System

The multimedia package version is the one to have which features much more, this version has something called park assist which I have seen a lot of in cars, but nothing like this one. The number plate at the back as a small camera and when putting the auto transmission in reverse mode the touch screen monitor shows you exactly what is behind you with guidelines, these guidelines show you the exact route of what the car is doing and where you should be. The image shown on the screen is colour which is fantastic.

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