Touch Screen Gadget

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic first touch screen phone

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

Nokia’s first touchscreen-equipped cellphone, the music-playing 3G 5800 XpressMusic, is due in the fourth quarter in Europe, but a North American edition isn’t planned for U.S. availability until sometime next year, a spokesman said.

Another version of the phone, due in Europe early next year at an unannounced price, will deliver free one-year

Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic phone

access to Nokia’s soon-to-launch Comes With Music service, which allows one year of free unlimited over-the-air downloading of protected-WMA music tracks from the catalogs of the big four music labels (Warner, Sony/BMG, EMI and Universal) and independents. Tracks downloaded during that time can be kept after the year is up, and additional songs can be purchased after that time on an a la carte basis from Nokia’s Music Store. Consumers can also download Comes With Music songs to their PC and side-load them to the phone, a spokesman said.

The service launches in mid-October in the U.K. with compatibility on select Nokia phones, but the company hasn’t announced plans to launch the service in the U.S.

The company also hasn’t said whether the 5800, a GSM/W-CDMA HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) phone, will be sold in the U.S. through carriers or, as an unlocked phone, direct to retailers or consumers.

In Europe, the 4.31-inch by 2.04-inch by 0.61-inch, 3.85-ounce phone will sell for around 279 euros, or $368 based on an exchange rate of $1.38 per euro, excluding carrier subsidies.

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Rumored Atila from Motorola

Posted by sawaru | Category: Mobile Phone

Motorola’s latest  much-rumored smartphone, currently named "Atila," has had images of it supposedly leaked to the public. Designed as a device to compete directly with the iPhone, it features a touchscreen, 3G support and will run Windows Mobile.

The device reportedly will feature quad-band GSM/EDGE along with tri-band UMTS/HSPA, making it ideally suited for use overseas or on AT&T and Rogers in North America. The device will not support T-Mobile USA’s 3G rollout, only the carrier’s existing 2.5G network.

Atila will supposedly run on a Qualcomm 7201A processor, speed unknown but likely in the 400 MHz range.

Its 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen will be its only means of input, lacking a hardware keyboard or numeric keypad. This is a big part of what separates it from the Motorola Alexander, a similar model that was recently leaked.

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Nikon Coolpix S60 3.5inch LCD introduce

Posted by sawaru | Category: Digital Camera

Nikon today announced the Nikon Coolpix S60, a stylish compact camera sporting a 3.5-inch touchscreen and a new graphics user interface that places shooting and playback controls at the user’s fingertips.
To accompany its new touchscreen LCD, the Nikon Coolpix S60 features several shooting modes that are seamlessly integrated into the camera’s interface. The camera’s only "physical" buttons include the power and shutter release, leaving all the camera functions to the touchscreen display.
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Powerful touch based business tools

Posted by sawaru | Category: Laptop & Notebook, Trend Watch & News

elitechoice post an interesting article on two-side touchscreen.

Two-Touchscreen Laptop by Prezenter PSR shields me from your stern looks. Yes and the new profession can be travelling salesman! Featured above is a hi-tech form of a laptop that can be your weapon during one-to-one presentations taking away your worry of shifting the laptop towards the client and then making it sit awkwardly so that both of you happens to get a feel of the slide running on it. Sporting two screens, the 14.1-inch screen faces the audience whilst the smaller 7-inch touchscreen allows you take the audience to the level without making them feel uneasy.

Both displays of Prezenter PSR laptop stands on clone mode (dual mode) where the little one seems like an extended desktop setting. It allows the complete interactivity from the clients’ side by enabling them mark circles to points that confuses them. Likewise any standard laptop, it has a battery life of 3.5 hours and is Wi-Fi enables and currently is available for trial in the US market. It is expected to bear a retail price of $1,800.

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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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DT Research’s WebDT 310 Tablet review

Posted by admin | Category: Tablet PC & UMPC

Tablet PC sales hit just a relatively small 4.6 percent of the overall mobile PC market last year, according to research firm IDC, but are poised to grow significantly faster as more applications enter the market that take advantage of their functionality.

That’s worth keeping in mind, too, as an increasing number of service and commercial businesses have been trying to use tablets to boost productivity and work flow, with a large portion of this growth in the Industrial Mobile Tablet market.

As the first in this segment with an integrated bar code scanner, a 2 Megapixel camera, and a Magnetic Stripe Reader (MSR), all-in-one; San Jose, California based DT Research’s recently released WebDT 310 and 360 models aim to address the requirements of many vertical markets.

The WebDT 310 that the Test Center recently evaluated has a 10.4 inch touch screen and weighs two pounds (versus the 360’s 8.4 inch touch screen at 1.8 pounds). The highly customizable units are fan-less, with solid state memory and a solid state drive. Options include hot-swappable/wearable battery packs, and the customer’s choice of Windows Embedded XP, CE, or Tablet PC operating systems. This allows companies with existing commercial applications to continue running them without re-engineering.

While many tablets are available with the choice of scanner, camera, or MSR, DT Research claims that this is the first device available with all three (each as an added option). At the bottom of the screen are three customizable buttons to the left, and four on the right. There is also a fingerprint reader in the center. Our evaluation unit was fitted with protective bumpers on the sides and an elasticized hand strap in the back. The horizontal placement of the hand strap makes long-term use of the tablet in landscape position very tiring. Portrait orientation was much more comfortable. In addition, although the fan-less design makes the WebDT virtually silent, this causes the back panel to get very hot.

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Digital Cooking Aid with USB Stick and remote Wi-Fi

Posted by admin | Category: Home Appliance

If you are a modern day Cinderella looking for some aid in cooking, especially when your mom-in-law decides to make a sudden visit to your place, you can consider Hannah Plevin’s Interactive Digital Cooking Aid to help you out. It consists of a device comprising of a digital screen and a weighing scale. You can store information about your favorite recipes on the device and use the touch screen feature to access them. You can upload information about recipes from the internet with its integrated USB stick or Wi-FI via which you can connect to the computer. There is a 2kg capacity weighing scale to aid you in using appropriate quantities of the ingredients so that you don’t waste any resources.

The device also gives you an idea of the number of calories each recipe of yours works out to be so that if you happen to be a fitness freak you can watch your calorie intake. The screen is adjustable and removable. This foldable device can be mounted on the wall, saving space in your equipment-filled kitchen. Most importantly, it is interactive and the wonderful multimedia pictures of recipes will really make your mouth water and hasten you up in churning out some really tempting dishes.

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Astak Ebook Reader 3 types screen size

Posted by admin | Category: Education

The Astak Mentor is a joint project between PVI (screens), Netronix (assembly and design and Touch expertise), and Astak (end design and sales). It was developed in-house in Taiwan and is now being refined in San Jose, California. Source.

It will come in 5″, 6″ and 9.7″ screen sizes. The operating system will be Win CE with splash screen on boot; and it will support English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese (Big 5), and Japanese. It will include eReader in firmware, and may include MOBI if Amazon drops its requirement for exclusivity. It will also support TXT, PDF, RTF, HTML/CHM.

 

 

 

 

 

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HTC iPhone-killer unveils a worthy alternative

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Phone, Smartphone

HTC unveils rival to Apple’s iPhone

HTC,a fast growing Taiwanese handset manufacturer, unveiled in London its new flagship product, the HTC Touch Diamond, a product that is widely expected to pose a challenge Apple’s iPhone.

Introducing the device that promises one-touch access to a number of features, including the mobile web, photos and music among others Peter Chou, president and CEO of HTC, declared 2008 the year of the mobile internet, and said his company, a relatively new player in the mobile telecommunications technology sector, was poised for another phase of rapid growth with the innovative phone.

Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, the compact touch screen device — the latest update of HTC’s Touch smartphone line that has sold more than 3 million units worldwide since last June — features a revamped TouchFlo 3D interface. With a 2.8 inch display that allows users to zoom in on content with the touch wheel or tilt it by turning it on its side, the phone is a mere 11.5 mm thick, making it even thinner than the iPhone, and includes a 3.2 megapixel camera and 4 GB of storage.

HTC chief marketing officer John Wang said the new device runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, comes with 4 GB of internal storage with 256 MB flash and 192 MB RAM and runs on a Qualcomm MSM 7201A , 528MHz chipset. Other features include Bluetooth with EDR, minUSB, integrated GPS and Wi-Fi and 900 mAh battery which claims to offer a 4-hours standby talk-time on GSM.

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Egg Phone trendsetter for future phone designs?

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

Could we possibly see, sometime in the future, a Nokia Egg? Or a Sony Ericsson Egg? Only time will tell.
However, regardless of who creates the "mobile egg", we really hope someone will do it. With such a look and features, this mobile handset has all the chances to become a hit, especially among the users who look for a unique mobile phone.

A young designer from Prague, the capital of Czech Republic, recently came up with a fresh and good looking mobile phone concept, called the Egg Phone. Far from being bulky like an egg, the new handset mobile phone has an oval-shaped, curved case that seems to be quite slim and, more important, it can probably fit well in users’ hands.

Roman Tubl, the creator of the Egg handset, imagined the device having "illuminated" margins and a wide touchscreen display with tactile feedback, which represents the only way users can control the device’s functions. Therefore, it seems we have here the very first full-touchscreen phone that clearly differentiates itself from Apple’s iPhone and its design. Which is, obviously, a good thing.

Besides the touchscreen, said to be easy to use, the Egg phone should also have a pretty cool range of features, including: a 3.2 Megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a USB port for both charging and data transfers, Enlarge picture and an internal memory of "up to 4GB". If some 3G speeds and other goodies can also be squeezed in the Egg, then the handset is, at least theoretically, a very attractive one.

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