Touch Screen Gadget

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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Blackjack 3 aka Samsung i788

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone, Windows Mobile

Rumor is floating around that AT&T will be launching the BlackJack III Samsung i788 some time in the very near future. It will be powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and will get loaded with HSDPA, GPS, WiFi, and optical mouse pointer. Perhaps the most notable change, however, is that the BJ3 may actually be equipped with a touchscreen. I wonder if that was just a slip of the tongue on the part of the Boy Genius.
In any case, we’ll have to sit tight until AT&T and Samsung make some sort of official announcement.

 

 

 

 

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Samsung TouchWiz F480 Launched

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone

TouchWiz F480, its latest full touchscreen, ultra-slim credit card size mobile phone.

The TouchWiz F480 includes 240 MB of internal music memory, a memory card with up to 8 GB storage, an integrated FM radio, a 5 MP camera featuring auto focus and a CMOS video lens.
“The F480 is a significant addition to our touchscreen mobile portfolio, bringing a totally new and exciting user experience. The F480 is just the first in a series of touchscreen mobiles we are launching this year, to provide our consumers with a more rewarding and engaging user interface; one that’s more fun, easier to use and more personal,” said Geesung Choi, President of Samsung’s Telecommunication Business. Read the rest of this entry »

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Windows Mobile 6.1 improvements

Posted by admin | Category: Smartphone, Windows Mobile

Microsoft recently introduced Windows Mobile 6.1, an upgrade of the Windows Mobile operating system.

It adds new features and capabilities to the previous (6.0) version, enhancing your Web browsing and day-to-day use of Windows Mobile. It also adds new features and capabilities of interest to the enterprise users. This article looks at some of the more important enhancements.

Improved Messaging

Microsoft has made some significant enhancements in the Messaging application. For enterprise users Microsoft added Exchange Auto-Discovery, which makes it easier to set up synchronization with Exchange. Users are now able to download e-mail from all accounts at the same time. Microsoft added auto-complete for e-mail recipients, which makes it easier for users to enter e-mail addresses on small keyboards and touch screens. Also, Windows Mobile 6.1 added the ability to select multiple e-mail items in the list so you can easily delete or move e-mail. Finally, Windows Mobile 6.1 includes optimizing the bandwidth utilization for Exchange, POP3, and IMAP4, which is very important to enterprise wireless data users.

 

Other enhancements to WM 6.1

A number of enhancements made to Windows Mobile 6.1 are of particular interest:

• Bluetooth headset auto-pairing: Makes it easier to pair your device with standard Bluetooth headsets.
• Bluetooth phone address profile: This enables the transfer of phone book information across phone-enabled Bluetooth devices.
• Network Time (NITZ) Description: Automatically updates the time on a device when it moves into a new time zone or receives a Daylight Savings Time (DST) change from the cellular network.
• Cut, Copy, and Paste capability added to Windows Mobile Standard (non-touch screen) smartphones.
• Enhanced "Getting Started CD" not only contains user-installable versions of Mobile Device Center and ActiveSync, it includes software that helps the user set up their device and an application that makes e-mail setup easier by exporting their Outlook settings from a desktop PC to the Windows Mobile device.

Managing Mobile Devices—System Center Mobile Device Manager

Last fall, Microsoft released a new server to manage Windows Mobile devices called System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM). SCMDM actually adds Windows Mobile Devices to Active Directory and provides group policy management of the device security as well as a separate VPN connection optimized for Windows Mobile. Windows Mobile 6.1 is required to support SCMDM. SCMDM is covered in detail in the Enterprise section on page 55.

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Canada Bell distribution for LG Vantage and Samsung Ace

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

LG Vantage (not "vintage", ok?) is a good looking slider that features a full touchscreen display and also an alpha-numeric keypad, hence its owners will be able to control the mobile phone using two methods. Under the name of Vantage, we actually have the LG AX-830, which was released in the US about one month ago, as LG Glimmer.

Besides the 2.8 inch TFT touchscreen display with 262K colors and 240 x 400 pixels, the new Canadian Vantage brings dual-band CDMA connectivity, a 2.0 Megapixel camera with flash and video, a 512MB memory card (it can be replaced with another one of up to 4GB), media player, voice dialing, handsfree, speaker phone and so on. The phone weighs 4.4 ounces (125 grams) and,
Enlarge picture when closed, it measures 4.01 x 2.05 x 0.59 inches (102 x 52 x 15 millimeters). Bell will start offering the fancy slider on the 16th of May, for $375 with a 1-year contract agreement or $275 with a contract for 2 years (the retail price, free of any contract, is $425).

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Samsung Glyde SCH-U940 slender alternative

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone

The latest in a now-crowded field of Verizon messaging phones, the Samsung Glyde SCH-U940 is a slender, attractive handset. Though its touch screen could be smoother, it’s a good addition to Verizon’s lineup of text-centric devices.

Review was to eschew the often-made iPhone comparisons for this handset. Sure, the Glyde SCH-U940 has a big touch screen, but it really doesn’t feel like an iPhone at all. It’s long and lozenge-shaped, with a 2.8-inch, 240-by-440-pixel touch screen on the front. A single "hard" key takes you straight to the home menu. At 4.1 by 2.0 by 0.7 inches (HWD), the Glyde is both shorter and narrower than the hunky LG VX10000 Voyager, which it somewhat resembles. But rather than flipping open like the Voyager, the Glyde’s hidden full QWERTY keyboard slides out. Even so, you still use the main touch screen when entering text with the keyboard. The Glyde doesn’t have an accelerometer, but the screen rotates automatically (and snappily) when you pop open the keyboard.

Home screen buttons offer quick access to the dial pad, main menu, contacts and messaging, and you can jump to a customizable shortcut screen for things like e-mail. The Glyde uses animated wallpapers that react to your touch, which is fun. Touch-screen buttons are thoughtfully chunky enough for fingers. Like the LG Voyager, the phone vibrates slightly when you press a touch button to confirm that you’ve touched it. You navigate through scrolling lists (such as your contacts) by swiping your finger up and down the screen. It takes a bit of getting used to, but then this interface becomes quite easy.

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Samsung patented Gesture-UI

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

Samsung’s been getting pretty creative with cell cameras lately — the Instinct lets you pan around web pages by tracking movement with the camera, for example — but the company’s latest patent application, for a gesture-based phone interface, might be a little less practical. The idea is to use the phone’s camera to track your hand movements, which, from the drawings, should have you looking insane on the subway in no time. Of course, we’ve all been guilty of waving at and even talking to our devices when they’re acting up, so maybe a little feedback wouldn’t be a bad thing — there’s one gesture we’d definitely like to see programmed in there.

[Via Textually.org]

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Korea touch phone boom

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

In Korea mobile Internet is the hottest issue among early adopters of technology in Korea. At www.cetizen.com, the largest online community of mobile phone users, the three most popular handsets these days are all touch-screen phones specializing in Web browsing ― Samsung’s Haptic, Pantech & Curitel’s CanU and LG’s Touch Web Phone.  
These so-called full-browsing phones are selling at impressive rates. Samsung says that it has sold around 30,000 Haptic phones in 15 days since its launch on March 25, which is about the double the daily sales of other new models. Its hefty price tag ― 797,000 won ($800) without a rebate or a discount ― hasn’t been discouraging customers, the company says.
“It’s a bit expensive, but still we are in short supply. Retailers are even paying in advance to secure their volume,” a company spokesman said.

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Verizon VX6900 on sale

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

Verizon Wireless said its XV6900 touch-screen smart phone is available online today for $349.99 after a $50 rebate and with a two-year service agreement.

The XV6900 runs the Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating system, providing access to Office Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile and other applications.

It operates over Verizon’s EV-DO 1xRTT wireless network and is equipped with Bluetooth 2.0 for hands-free headset support, Verizon Wireless said.

The device, which was shown at CTIA Wireless 2008, joins a growing number of devices that would compete with Apple’s iPhone for its touch-screen capabilities and general size and shape.

The Verizon Wireless XV6900 smart phone, with its touch-screen capabilities, is viewed as a rival device to the iPhone. (Photo courtesy of Verizon Wireless)

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