Touch Screen Gadget

Nokia Tube in 2008 or next year

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Trend Watch & News

Now it appears that the Nokia touchscreen Tube wait is almost over… with potentially less than inspiring results. In a statement released today from the company’s head of devices, Kai Oistamo, the phone-maker says it will be launching a series of touchscreen devices in the second half the year, with the first model — likely the Tube — aimed at the "volume market." Oistamo claims that the mid-range market (not the high-end sector that devices like the iPhone 3G occupy) account for 50 percent of the total value of the touchscreen phone game. Essentially, it looks like Nokia’s strategy will be business as usual, likely flooding the field with unspectacular mid-range phones, rather than taking on pricier competition like recent Apple and Samsung devices head-to-head, at least initially. Of course, who can argue with the company that shipped 122 million units in Q2 2008?

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Really no room left for buttons

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Multi Touch, Trend Watch & News

It’s been a good year for touch screens.

The launch of the first iPhone model a year ago boosted interest in the technology tremendously, and the updated model available Friday likely will stoke enthusiasm further. Now touch-screen manufacturers are going flat out, and more devices will soon be controlled by the tip of your finger.

"After the iPhone came out, a lot of mobile-phone companies said ‘Oh, I can make that kind of touch-screen mobile phone, too,’" said Jennifer Colegrove, analyst at iSuppli Corp.

Jon Mulder, product marketing manager for Sony Ericsson’s U.S. arm, said touch screens have become a "hygiene factor" - a must-have for phones that want to compete in the high end of the U.S. market.

Colegrove projects that 341 million touch screens will be shipped worldwide this year, up from 218 million in 2007 and 81 million in 2006.

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Troubleshooting iPhone touchscreen response

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

A new Knowledge Base article on the Apple Support Site, which was modified and/or added hot on the heels of my needing an iPhone replacement because of this very problem, addresses the unresponsive iPhone touchscreens.

The simple article, which is basically a list of things you can try to see what is wrong with your iPhone, really makes it clear and simple that “moisture” might be the cause of an iPhone’s touchscreen not working properly.

Details:-

Symptoms

• Touchscreen does not respond
• Portions of the touchscreen do not respond
• Touchscreen is very slow to respond

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Nokia nWave an iPhone like with more advantages

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

The Nokia nWAVE is an iPhone-like smartphone with a huge, cleverly curved touch screen that adds a whole heap of advantages.

 

General specifications:

Materials: Titanium frame, composite body and glass screen cover

Screen: 5.4 in / 800×320 / 2:5:1

Capacity: 32GB shared memory ( 4x larger than priciest iPhone)

Networks: GSM / HSDPA/ UMTS

Camera: 5.0Mp / Flash / Video Rendering

Since it is a Nokia, it would be likely they will use Symbian OS that even more features incorporated like  Flash Lite 3 which even iPhone 3G is still lacking.

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No worries as more iPhone parts supplier engaged

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

Electronista reported that Innolux a Taiwan display maker has landed new orders for touchscreens from Apple, say claims from those inside the industry. While few details are available, the company is expected to start shipments soon; the company itself declines to either confirm or deny orders from Apple but says it will soon ship a production run of touch panels using capacitive input like that of Apple’s handhelds.

The size of the screens and the amount being delievered is unavailable, though Innolux’s largest of two factories producing the screens can generate at most 100,000 units per month.
The new information corroborates a very early report from December which suggested Innolux would start shipping screens to Apple during the spring, though the combination of smaller-scale production and a relatively late shipment make the nature of the shipment unclear.

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Cheap iPhone like Mp3 Mp4 Music Video Player

Posted by sawaru | Category: MP3 Player

4GB Touch Screen 2.8" TFT Multimedia MP3/MP4 Music Video Player + Accessories
Feature:

• Brand-new Video 4GB MP3 Player with 9 Functions
• 4GB internal flash memory - Up to 1,000 songs
• Expandable using Mini SD cards
• Allows saving of up to 20 FM stations
• This is not from Apple. It is a different manufacturer.

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Touch-Screen Phones Expected to Reach 833 Million by Year 2013

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone, Trend Watch & News

CIT MOBiDIV delivers the first ever complete touch experience on Windows Mobile phones.

Touch screen devices are expected to dominate personal computing for the next few years…and numbers are beginning to roll in to support that forecast. More mobile device vendors have started touch-screen manufacturing and integration in 2008. Given this strong expected growth, about 60 companies plan to show off their touch-screen sensor, module or system technology during the 2008 Society for Information Display (SID).

At the leading edge of this new technology, CIT MOBiDIV, the mobile division of CIT Global, has invented a Touch Interface technology over Windows Mobile platform that merges the usability of Touch phones with the power and productivity of Windows Mobile to deliver an unparalleled touch experience to smartphones.

TouchMAX meets the rising consumer demand for touch-enabled devices and powerfully delivers the usability of iPhones with the productivity and versatility of Windows Mobile smartphones. TouchMAX can be completely customized giving Device vendors and Mobile Operators complete control over the device’s functionality, usability and most important the overall user experience.

With exciting touch enabled applications, improved functionalities and ease of use will appeal to a wide range of consumers especially the X-MessagingTM that enables sending live personalized messages with handwriting, animations, colors, smileys and emoticons.

source: PR.com

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Alternative Touch base Browser UI is there for iPhone

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone, Software

Apple iPhone is undoubtedly a very popular device, but not everyone is in love with the built-in Safari web browser. Fear not, because no fewer than two additional web browsing options could be coming your way, thanks to the upcoming launch of the Apple AppStore.
There’s no explicit mention of Internet Explorer just yet, but there are rumbles that versions of Firefox mobile UI and Opera mobile are being developed and launched for the Cupertino wonder. The biggest hurdle, it seems, is that the iPhone SDK agreement is essentially blocking development in this arena. At least, that’s how some people are interpreting this section of the agreement.

No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s) […] An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise.

Will Apple allow third parties to develop applications that effectively compete against applications already installed on the iPhone? Let’s hope so.

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Touch Trends still Hot across Industries

Posted by sawaru | Category: Digital Camera, GPS Navigation & Guidance System, Mobile Phone, Trend Watch & News

So soon after the madness that was PC Show 2008 last week, it’s now time for the annual CommunicAsia technology fair held at the Singapore Expo. Unlike the PC Show, CommunicAsia is a bona fide tradeshow meant for companies to show off their new products and technologies. Though many things like network and enterprise equipment won’t really appeal to ordinary consumers, these are the things that eventually determine what kinds of services you will see from your operators in the near future. Short of showing you pictures of servers and network antennae, here’s a brief preview of what to expect from CommuniAsia 2008.

Thanks to the iPhone, touchscreen phones are now hot items. Samsung has announced the Omnia SGH-i900 (It has nearly everything the iPhone doesn’t have and it’s already available in Asia)and will be showcasing it. Garmin will set up shop as well to display its nuvifone. We’ll be bringing you more information about those over the next few days.

Let’s not forget mobile phones. Aside from all the touchscreen-enabled ones, new handsets will be announced by some of the major players. Nokia Tube may not participate directly in CommunicAsia, but it’s also when the Finnish company holds Nokia Connection.

Sony Ericsson also has a press conference lined up. Going by the rumors that have been making their way across the Internet, we may just see a new Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot.

(This Cyber-shot may render your dedicated digital camera obsolete with its 8.1-megapixel camera module and heaps of imaging features. Image stabilization? Check. Autofocus? You got it. Face detection? Sure. Xenon flash? Of course.)

sources : Cnet

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Choosing the best Smartphones going to hard

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, PDA, Smartphone, Trend Watch & News, Windows Mobile

The 3G iPhone is nearly with us - but will its touchscreen technology make it the smartphone market leader?

It’s three weeks until the 3G iPhone is available - and rivals are already pointing to their own advantages over it. If you’re looking to buy a smartphone, how do you choose between them? The first question is not so much whether you need or want a particular smartphone, but whether the word “smartphone” is itself a red herring. Manufacturers are very particular: a smartphone, they’ll tell you, has an open operating system that lets you add applications. If a phone doesn’t have that, but has email, a touchscreen and other bells and whistles, then it’s a “feature phone”. (Quite where the iPhone, which can only add applications that Apple has approved, fits isn’t obvious.)

Still, what’s definitely coming this summer is a battle of the touchscreen phones. Apple, through marketing if nothing else, is leading the charge but Samsung, RIM (the BlackBerry people) and HTC are there as well. LG is keen not to be seen competing with smartphones, but its Secret model has a perfectly good touchscreen and media player capability.

Consumer demand

But do people want touchscreens? The launch of the original iPhone, at least in the UK, must cast some doubt on that - on the launch day the queues didn’t stretch around the streets as they did in the US, although the initial order did sell out. Tony Cripps, an analyst with the consultants Ovum, cautiously believes there’s a demand. “What people want is an easier way of interacting with their phones and devices generally. As long as a touchscreen is allied to a well-designed user interface, they can go a long way to making this happen.”

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