Touch Screen Gadget

HTC Shift X9500 fit for mobile workers

Posted by sawaru | Category: Laptop & Notebook, Tablet PC & UMPC

HTC Shift X9500 is the latest entrant into the ultraportable notebook market.

The HTC Shift is made by a phone company but for calls you need to use a headset or go hands-free, with its sleek shape and on-the-run connectivity features, the Shift should prove useful for road warriors, although some poor software choices and sluggish specs may annoy power users.

The Shift’s best feature is undoubtedly its compact shape.Displaying its crisp 7in, 800 by 480 resolution touchscreen and weighing a mere 800g, the Shift is an ideal size for mobile workers.

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Touchscreen ease between mobile work and play

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

The HTC Touch Pro and Touch Diamond have created a new generation of HTC touch devices that make the promise of the one-hand, one-touch mobile Internet a reality. HTC Touch Pro is for those customers that demand the ease of use and enjoyment of TouchFLO™ 3D and want the styling of the Touch Diamond but also need the powerful mobile business experience that HTC delivers. The Touch Pro includes a new innovative touch-sensitive control for device interaction.

With the introduction of Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, HTC delivers an entirely new mobile Internet experience that utilizes broadband-like speeds with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and wireless connectivity. Committed to improving Web browsing, HTC provides a new customized mobile Web browser that enables easy viewing and effortless navigation of Websites in the way they are designed to be viewed on a PC. As part of this browsing experience users can zoom and pan Websites with one-hand and automatically view optimized content that has been specially created to fit the display. Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view.

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LG - KS360 not yet a touchscreen phone

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

Some people dislike touchscreen mobiles because they’re rarely able to provide any physical typing feedback. But LG’s proven that it has at least one finger on the button, with the launch of a slider phone sporting a bold arrangement of physical keys.

The KS360 doesn’t have a touchscreen, so users must navigate their way around the phone’s 2.4in display using the circular raised keys that are neatly arranged underneath the screen. There’s also a slide-out Qwerty keyboard hidden underneath the 240 x 320 pixel resolution display.

Users will get a tri-band GSM connection and the phone also supports Edge. MP3 audio files can be played by the handset and there’s an FM radio built-in too. A two-megapixel camera is integrated into the back of the phone.

Bluetooth and a USB 2.0 port are included for moving data around, but further specifications are still few and far between.

A release date or price for the LG KS360 hasn’t been seen yet.

A Verizon LG Voyager VX100000 test drive

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone

The Voyager was billed as Verizon’s answer to the iPhone. That’s largely because of the touch screen. The Voyager, which sells for about $299, offers a few features that the iPhone doesn’t.

The sleek clamshell design offers a brilliant touch screen on the front. Though it’s not quite as smooth as the iPhone, it is easily navigated and the screen vibrates when you touch an icon. The touch screen is fun to navigate and allows access to contacts, a message menu, call logs, the camera, and the TV and music players. The Voyager offers other options for those who aren’t comfortable with that application.

When you open the phone, you see a smaller display screen and a QWERTY keyboard, which is tremendous for sending text messages and e-mail.

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Touchscreen Mobile Phone boom

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

Shipments of touchscreen handsets will hit 178 million by 2011, according to new research.

The touch-screen craze that started with the iPhone last year is set to spread from what MultiMedia Intelligence calls a ’rounding error’ to an impressive 178 million units at the start of the next decade.
As big name vendors like Nokia (N96), Sony Ericsson (Xperia), LG (Vu) and HTC (Touch Dual) bring touchy-feely devices to market, the research company says the segment is primed to explode.
Frank Dickson, chief research officer at MultiMedia Intelligence, said: "The touch screen interface is here to stay as it is a tremendous innovation in handsets.

However, it is not perfect. It is not ideal for all usage paradigms. Qwerty keyboards, sliders, and plain, old standard keyboards have their fans as well. Additionally, touch screens add considerable expense of the handset bill of materials."

Korea phone maker aiming stronger market

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

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics plan to use the CTIA (Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association) wireless industry trade show as a springboard to boost their mobile sales in the United States, where saturation and competition have been the norm.
The show, North America’s largest wireless event, will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, April 1-3.
Samsung Electronics said Monday that it will unveil this year’s strategic “Soul’’ phone in the world’s largest consumer electronics market. The slider-type handset with a touch panel will feature Bluetooth 2.0 and 5-megapixel camera functions.
The phone is being marketed to European customers and will be available in mid-April.
Samsung electronics, the world’s No. 2 handset manufacturer after Finland-based Nokia, also plans to introduce customized products aiming for larger U.S. wireless operators such as “Flipshot’’ (Verizon), “Blackjack2’’ (AT& T), “Katalyst’’ (T-Mobile) and “m520’’ (Sprint).

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Verizon LG Voyager package review

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

The new, feature-packed LG Voyager from Verizon Wireless does many things well. The reasonably compact (though not super-skinny), 4.7-ounce touch-screen phone makes excellent-quality voice calls and flips open sideways to reveal a first-rate QWERTY keyboard for typing e-mail and instant messages.

Its 2-megapixel camera captures digital stills superior to most I’ve snapped with a camera phone, and its little stereo speakers do a pretty good job playing my MP3s (downloaded to the handset or a Micro SD card via a supplied USB cable and Verizon’s V Cast Music Manager). Its built-in GPS receiver and VZ Navigation service (an extra-charge option) were easy to set up and worked well, making the Voyager truly useful for, well, voyages. Web browsing over Verizon’s EvDO network was zippy, and the handset supports V Cast Mobile TV (this extra-cost service wasn’t activated on my test unit, however).

When closed, the Voyager looks similar to an iPhone, with a   face dominated by   a beautiful   2.8-inch display. But as an iPhone competitor, the Voyager falls short in the touch-screen department. While the display looks great and its VibeTouch haptics technology provides good tactile feedback (a little vibration) when you press an on-screen button, fingertip scrolling is disappointing, lacking the effortlessly smooth quality of the iPhone’s implementation.

During trials, the touch-screen and keyboard modes sometimes didn’t play together as well as they should. Several times I tried to launch an app from the touch-screen menu, only to wind up having to flip open the phone and turn it sideways to use the keyboard or navigation pad inside. You can’t activate the speaker phone from the touch screen, and of course any data entry requires the keyboard. Also, I sometimes found the relationship between screen and hardware controls confusing–I had trouble finding the volume control for the music player, for instance.

The Voyager isn’t based on a major smart-phone platform such as Windows Mobile or BlackBerry, so you won’t have the range of productivity applications that’s available for those operating systems. And its battery life in our trials–4 hours and 38 minutes–was poor compared with those of other units we’ve tested. But the handset does deliver a lot of style (not to mention a good hardware keyboard and 3G, but no Wi-Fi, connectivity), along with its messaging, multimedia, and navigation capabilities, for its $349 price tag (with a two-year contract).

If you’re not expecting an iPhone-caliber touch screen and the battery life isn’t too much of a drag–or if you prefer Verizon Wireless to AT&T–the Voyager’s pros may outweigh its cons and provide a good alternative to Apple’s gem.

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Early review on LG Viewty KU-990

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone

Here the review after using the LG Viewty for a month we’ve compiled the good, the bad
and the ugly on this little black handset. Two people had the phone for
a few weeks and swapped it to get different perspectives.

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AT&T Centro update features

Posted by admin | Category: GPS Navigation & Guidance System, Mobile Phone

The AT&T version, for $99 after rebate and a two-year contract, features XM Radio Mobile, a push-to-talk capability and MusicID for identifying songs, a Palm spokeswoman said. It operates over AT&T’s EDGE network.

The Centro has preserved both a touch screen and a QWERTY keyboard. The touch screen, at 320 by 320 pixel resolution and 2.2 inches diagonally, takes up about half of the upper part of the device. In all, the Centro is 4.22 by 2.11 by .73 inches and weighs only 4.4 ounces, making it one of the smallest and lightest Palm products released. It is available in white today from AT&T and black next month. Read the rest of this entry »

HTC Shift wireless mini PC by Orange

Posted by admin | Category: Laptop & Notebook, Tablet PC & UMPC, Trend Watch & News

Mobile communications firm Orange is planning to offer UK businesses the latest device from HTC, known as Shift, which includes a seven-inch touch screen mobile computer.

The Shift is smaller and lighter than a laptop, with mobile data connectivity.

It has a seven-inch touch screen that “slides and tilts” to the perfect viewing angle, said Orange. It also has a full Qwerty keyboard.

Users can switch between Microsoft Windows Mobile and Microsoft Windows Vista, said Orange.

The device supports 3G/3G+ and Wi-Fi. The Shift also comes pre-loaded with Microsoft Office in Vista mode, enabling users to download, view and edit Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint documents.

It comes with a 30GB hard-drive, large enough for most mobile offices.

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