Touch Screen Gadget

Nokia 7700 was just the first stab

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

Today, however, Nokia is trying to play catch-up with the likes of Samsung and more notably, Apple with its iPhone. Both have touchscreen products in the marketplace while Nokia’s version could be released by the end of the year.

The Finnish company’s first stab at the touchscreen format was in 2003 with the Nokia 7700 series which was later discontinued. Local pricing and availability would be revealed closer to launch date in the first quarter next year, a company spokesperson said.

Google Android on HTC delayed

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

Running Google Android on HTC could be push back to early 2009 the release of the cellphone maker’s first phone using the Google mobile operating system. The company rejects assertions by Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry that both technical and minimum payment issues are affecting the release and insists that the phone is on track for a fall 2008 launch. The researcher’s belief “does not match the facts,” the firm says.

The late 2008 launch is widely believed to be part of a high-profile release for not just HTC but also T-Mobile USA, which has been all but confirmed as launching its nationwide 3G network on October 1st and may launch the HTC device, often rumored to be the Dream touchscreen phone, as a companion to wider access for the carrier’s faster data speeds and improved call quality.

Most other Android phones aren’t slated to launch until early 2009 and are heavily rumored to have been partly hindered by delays in the Android software itself. LG, Motorola, Samsung, and others are part of the Open Handset Alliance instrumental in promoting Android.

[via The Unwired]

Demand boost in Middle East market

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

In a market dominated by so-called resistive touch technology, Apple’s iPhone uses a different technology called projected capacitance that enabled the multi-touch functionality that had been lacking in resistive-based touch panels.
HTC launched its first touch-screen phone - HTC TyTN and HTC P3300- in 2006 and LG launched its Prada in 2007 and Samsung in 2008 while Apple launched its iPhone in 2007, but iPhone is not officially available in the Middle East.

Samsung has four main sleek touch-screen phones - the Omnia, the Haptic, the F490 and the Instinct and LG has the Prada, the Viewty, Venus and the Voyager while HTC has the HTC Touch, Touch Dual with Touch FLO, TyTN II, HTC Shift HTC Advantage X7510 lined up to take on Apple.

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Samsung’s TouchWiz for India market

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

Samsung today launched its touchscreen mobile phone in the Indian market. Called the F480 a.k.a TouchWiz, the phone sports full touch navigation features.
The phone houses a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED Flash. It features the "auto smile shot" as seen in some newer Samsung digicams. Samsung TouchWiz also comes equipped with face detection, image stabilizer, CMOS video lens, and Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) - features usually found in the more advanced digital cameras.

The ‘drag and drop’ technology allows widgets to be selected from the left panel of the screen and dropped anywhere on the home screen. Since the widgets include widely used applications like clock, calendar, alarms, Music Player, FM, Games and Profiles, this practically allows the user to set hotkeys on the touch menu for all these functions.

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Dual-Sim touchscreen from Samsung

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

Samsung has recently unveiled a new high-end dual - sim touchscreen phone, named Samsung D980.

The major difference between the D980 and F480 is that the first handset comes with dual-SIM technology, allowing you to use two SIM cards at the same time. Also, the D980 only features tri-band GSM connectivity (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS and EDGE, unlike the F480 which has 3G connectivity too. These aspects aside, the two phones are quite similar, when it comes to both their design and their capabilities. Among the features included in the D980, we have: a 2.6 inch TFT touchscreen display with 260K colors and 240 x 320 pixels, a 5 Megapixel camera with flash, auto focus and video recording, Bluetooth 2.0, Music and Video players, FM radio, Web and email capabilities, Instant Messaging, USB, expandable memory and so on.

Among the features included in the D980, we have: a 2.6 inch TFT touchscreen display with 260K colors and 240 x 320 pixels, a 5 Megapixel camera with flash, auto focus and video recording, Bluetooth 2.0, Music and Video players, FM radio, Web and email capabilities, Instant Messaging, USB, expandable memory and so on.

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Typhoon complaints to many touchscreen device manufactures

Posted by sawaru | Category: Trend Watch & News

Typhoon’s complaint alleges that defendants have infringed and continue to infringe its US Patent 5,379,057 issued 3 January, 1995 and entitled “Portable Computer with Touch Screen and Computer System Employing Same,” and US Patent No. 5,675,362 issued October 7, 1997 and entitled “Portable Computer with Touch Screen and Computing System Employing Same."

It launched litigation over the alleged infringements in December 2007 against Dell. Now, Typhoon has added Apple, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Lenovo, Panasonic, HTC, Palm, Samsung, Nokia and LG Electronics to the list of companies it is litigating against.

“The addition of these defendants is a further step in protecting Typhoon’s IP from being unfairly exploited. Hopefully, the world of potential infringers will take notice that it is the company’s intent to aggressively protect its intellectual property,” said Typhoon’s director of legal affairs and licensing, Hofheimer, Gartlir & Gross lawyer, Craig Weiner.

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Samsung Glyde touch screen quick fix

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

Guys from PhoneArena has stumbled across a possible fix for the Samsung Glyde’s troublesome touch screen. The site is reporting that if you tape the battery into the phone, it will strengthen the electrical connectivity between the battery and the handset, thus providing (as theory goes) a more responsive screen. PhoneArena tried the fix and said it appeared to work well in a couple of areas. Apparently, it was easier to scroll through lists and make menu selections. Yet, a few issues weren’t fixed. The PhoneArena team said problems remained with dialing a phone number, scrolling through a Web page, and using the unresponsive Back button. That doesn’t sound like much of a fix to us, and the tape doesn’t do much for the phone’s sex appeal. We’d also be interested to see if the "fix" solves the issues that we experienced with the edges of the touch screen. When we tried selecting items there, the display wouldn’t register our choice.

Samsung Omnia SGH i900 most promising iPhone killer

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

The all new touch-screen mobile phone is a very much talked about mobile phone at the moment and many of our readers here have said they prefer this handset over the Apple iPhone 3G, after Singapore and Europe have had the phone China and Taiwan will receive it in August. You will be able to buy it without a mobile contract for around $1098 SGD ($804 USD) for the 16GB version. The Samsung Omnia which apparently means “everything” in Latin and “wish” in Arabic is without a doubt a great competitor for the iPhone 3G and has all the features to make you happy beyond belief.

It comes with Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface which is pre-installed, 3.2-inch WQVGA display screen which you can sweep, tap and will let you drag and drop, the whole feel of the screen is amazing and does not lag at all meaning it is very responsive indeed, it takes around 1MB of the memory to keep it running. It has a built-in sensor where the Samsung’s Omnia will switch from portrait mode to landscape mode when you turn the phone, it is ultra slim with a size of only 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm and weighs only 127 grams and comes jam packed with many features such as support of HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, EDGE, GSM Quadband, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and FM Radio. You also get a built in 16GB/8GB flash memory. It will take you a while to fill it up even with a 5 megapixel camera on board. The Omnia accepts up to 16GB of microSDHC memory card, which boost up the total file storage space to 32GB maximum.

Samsung Omnia (i900) Specifications

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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

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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