Touch Screen Gadget

Small rival LXP1 look ahead

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AZ Designz, has carved out a respectable niche making multimedia bags and iPod accessories.

  Now it’s upped the ante by bravely entering the crowded palm-sized personal audio-video player market with its very own gizmo: the Life! LXP1.

So, has a worthy rival to Apple’s all-conquering iPod range finally emerged — and one designed in our own fair city at that?

Sadly, no. Though there’s much to like about the LXP1 — not least being the chutzpah to take on the Cupertino set — it’s not about to knock the iPod off its perch.

Regrettably, the LXP1 has shortcomings which, for too many potential buyers, would be deal-breakers. The locally designed but Chinese-made LXP1 is about the same credit-card size as a third-generation iPod Nano, only a bit chunkier, and weighs 120gm.

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iPod Touch audio issues is beautiful flaw

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The iPod Touch?s beautiful design, useful applications, touch screen, and built-in Wi-Fi outweigh minor audio-quality issues.

The Touch is certainly an amazing piece of technology. Mobile Safari is the best portable Web browser around, Cover Flow works great on a device with limited storage capacity, and the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store is extremely slick for a first-generation product.

Almost every feature of the iPhone has now made it over to the iPod Touch. The Touch is available in 8GB ($299), 16GB ($399), and 32GB ($499) capacities. At 0.31 inch deep, it’s substantially thinner than the iPhone, but it has the same 802.11b/g wireless support. In addition, it features the same 3.5-inch Multitouch screen with 480-by-320-pixel resolution. The single button on its face brings up the main menu; a small button on top of the device turns the unit on and off.

The only missing bits of hardware from the iPhone are the phone (including the mic and speakers that go with it), the camera, and the volume buttons and locking switch on the side. The nonstandard headset jack, which prevents you from plugging most headphones directly into the iPhone, is gone as well: The connector for a normal set of headphones will fit into the Touch just fine.

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iPod Touch the rugged review

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The iPod touch is a gleaming, rectangular example of everything that can go right in industrial design.

Slim, sleek and surely a hot to use: the iPod Touch.

Good looks aside, the iPod touch and its sister, the iPhone, represent a serious innovation in gadgetry. The touch screen control was a serious gamble on Apple’s part. It could easily have turned out gimmicky. Instead, the experience of using the new touch interface is so intuitive that it’s difficult to explain. Pinch this. Pull that. Flip it sideways to change views. It just works.

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Chumby your Internet wake up buddy

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Remember when a clock radio was just a clock radio? The prototypical alarm clock of the cyberage may well turn out to be Chumby, the cuddly and versatile new gadget I’ve been testing. This compact Wi-Fi-connected touch-screen Internet “appliance” does a lot more than wake you up.

Chumby can broadcast Internet radio stations, deliver Facebook, MySpace and Twitter status reports, and serve as a digital picture frame for the likes of Flickr and Picasa. You can watch certain YouTube videos and clips of David Letterman’s Top 10 lists. Or play games by tilting it from side to side — Chumby has a built-in accelerometer, or motion sensor. Chumby even moonlights as a speaker dock for some iPods.

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Get your Ice1000 while its hot

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With the introduction of Ice1000 we are getting the impression that Sumvision is quite the contender in the iPhone killing category. The Ice1000 is a smallish touchscreen media player that looks cuter than this Ainol iPod Touch Nano wannabe and just as “steely” as the LG FM37. This 2.8-inch player boasts a QVGA (320 x 240) resolution, supports horizontal viewing and plays XviD (AVI) and XviD (MP4) It comes with 4GB built-in and a microSD slot for memory extension. Price is £59.99 or $88.00 in UK.

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No More Mouse; Touch screen making inroads

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The hands-on approach is making its way into more technology used by consumers, from laptops to mobile phones to gaming and multimedia devices.

With these devices getting smaller and sleeker, touching them with a finger is often much easier and way more comfortable than clicking a mouse or thumb-typing on a tiny keyboard.

Touch-screen technology is people friendly, said Mike Agerbo, host of the Get Connected TV and radio show.

“As humans, we do everything with touch and with our hands whether we’re opening a door or sorting things out,” Agerbo said from Vancouver.

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32GB iPod Touch with improvements

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Apple addressed the most egregious video performance issues—where dark video and photos were really dark and lacked contrast—in the iPod touch 1.1.1 update . After applying the update, video on affected iPods improved. Yet even with the update our original 16GB iPod touches didn’t produce video as bright and defined as did an iPhone, though what it did produce was watchable.

The quality of my 32GB iPod touch’s screen still doesn’t match that of either of my iPhones. Its display has a yellower cast and is darker than my iPhones’ displays. Fortunately you’re unlikely to be bothered by these issues unless you have the touch next to an iPhone and compare the two as I did, in which case you might be the tiniest bit envious of the iPhone’s display.

Added applications

Apple eventually allowed adding and editing events within the touch’s Calendar application through a free software update. The iPhone’s “non-phone” applications remained missing in action, however, until Steve Jobs announced a $20 add-on package of iPod touch applications at the recent Macworld Expo. These applications—Mail, Stocks, Maps, Weather, and Notes—are included with iPod touches sold today. Read the rest of this entry »

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iPod upgrades with iPhone in mind

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Computer giant Apple expands the capacity of its widely popular iPhone and iPod Touch. The new model will cost the additional $100. The traditional iPhone is available on the market with the capacity of 8G gigabytes for $399. Now it comes with 16 gigabytes for $499.

The iPod Touch can now store more music and video files. Its capacity reaches 32 GB for the price of $499. The new enhanced models have been left unchanged from their previous models. However, they come complete with new software. It gives customers an opportunity to edit home screen and use Google Maps.The new move taken by Apple is expected to boost sales of the devices. Read the rest of this entry »

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