Jul 24 2010

BlackBerry Bold 9780 leaks out with OS 6, QWERTY instead of touchscreen

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 4:18 pm

Take this one with a grain of salt, but it’s looking like our old friend the BlackBerry Bold 9700 is getting a wee bit of an update. Yesterday evening, CrackBerry discovered a RIM document that describes a QWERTY-packing, OS 6-rocking “BlackBerry 9780″ destined for a GSM carrier near you… and less than 24 hours later, handset sleuth Salomondrin claims to have the first picture of the device. While we quite honestly can’t tell the difference, the man who outed the Curve 2 says this device’s chrome bezel is a tad darker than the original, and that it’ll have 512MB of flash memory when it hits the scene. Of course, this could just be an Bold 9700 with a hacked ROM or a theme of some sort, but we certainly hope not; pepper it up with CDMA, and you’ve got a shoe-in for the Curve 3.

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Jul 10 2010

What is this tiny Apple touchscreen that just leaked in Taiwan?

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 1:17 pm


Okay, we have no idea what’s going on here, but Taiwanese site Apple.pro has just posted up some shots of appears to be a tiny Apple-labeled touchscreen panel — it measures just 3cm (1.18 inches) square. Given the site’s track record with previous Apple component leaks like the white iPhone 4 and the unibody MacBook Pro enclosure, we’re somewhat inclined to believe this is real, but we have no idea what it’s for — a new iPod nano? The next-gen Apple TV’s remote control? Steve Jobs’s dream watch? — but we’re definitely interested in finding out. One more pic showing the Apple label on the ribbon cable after the break.

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Jul 08 2010

Panasonic introduces KX-PW821 fax machine with a touchscreen and stylus, world may never be the same

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 8:17 am

We were a little shocked to learn in Panasonic’s latest press release that there are still people out there who rely on faxes. For our younger readers, faxing is a means of transmitting images between two machines that would make funny noises over phone lines. Important documents were often transferred via those funny noises because the resulting quality was so low your signature and any other confidential info was made impossible to read on the resulting printout. However, Panasonic’s new KX-PW821 shuns the paper altogether, allowing you to doodle something on the screen and then hit send to have it transmitted. On the receiving end it can save a tree by writing faxes straight to SDHC storage and can store voicemails and full conversations as audio recordings, meaning this package could replace even the tape in your vintage answering machine. No word on whether the tiny kendo student is included, however.

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Jul 02 2010

NZXT’s Sentry LXE touchscreen fan controller turns you into Storm, minus the cheese

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 5:18 am

We know, you’re probably scoffing at those mortals still using “fans” to “cool their gaming rigs,” but unless you’ve thrown down the cheddar on a swank liquid cooling solution, you’ll probably find yourself at least mildly interested here. NZXT has taken a break from the mice and keyboard routine to break out a rather unique piece of kit in the Sentry LXE. This touchscreen fan controller connects to one’s desktop via PCIe, and from there provides finger control of up to five internal fans. Users can adjust each one individually, set it to automatically keep the machine at a given temperature or create a silence that would spook even the Reaper. As you’d expect, there’s an inbuilt temperature alarm to notify you if temps head north of a designated point, and all this fun awaits you in exchange for a low, low $59.99. Head on past the break if you’re in need of a video demonstration.

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Jun 30 2010

HTC HD2 caught running Android 2.1 and Ubuntu with touchscreen enabled (video)

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 4:17 pm

Still clinging on to your HTC HD2? Good on ya, cos this WinMo slate’s about to last you a wee bit longer — team HTC Linux has recently made a breakthrough with getting the touchscreen to talk to the HaRET Linux bootloader. In other words, us mere mortals can finally use Linux variants like Android and Ubuntu on the HD2 the way it’s meant to be, although we’re apparently still a few bugs away from a stable release. Until then, enjoy the techno-fueled video demo after the break.

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Jun 09 2010

Sony prototypes pressure-sensitive tactile touchscreen, hopes to use it ASAP

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 2:17 am

Sony may come up with some far-out ideas, but the company insists this one’s a bit closer to home: it’s a LCD touchscreen with force sensing resistors and piezoelectric actuators that can detect how much pressure is applied and vibrate the panel respectively. Tech-On was rocking the scene at Open House 2010, and reports that the Cover Flow-like interface shuffled icons faster the harder a demonstrator pressed down, an interesting UI quirk in and of itself. Though the publication sadly didn’t get to test out the tactile feedback for themselves, Sony said commercialization might not be too far off — when asked about that telling Sony Ericsson logo, the company asserted that it’d like to see the tech in mobile phones “as soon as possible.” We’d love to hold them to that, but unfortunately the applied pressure mechanic is just a prototype at this point.

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Jun 08 2010

Sony VAIO J joins the touchscreen all-in-one ranks

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 8:20 am

On the surface it doesn’t look like much separates Sony’s new 21.5-inch VAIO J all-in-one from the growing number of touchscreen AIOs on the market, but it’s definitely one of the more head-turning options out there. Like its 24-inch L Series, the VAIO J has a 1920×1080-resolution display and a Blu-ray drive, but the larger model now packs a 2.66GHz Intel Core i7-620M CPU, up to 8GB of RAM, and NVIDIA discrete graphics options with 512 vRAM. It also has a 7,200rpm 500GB hard drive and boots Windows 7 Premium, though Sony has added its touch-friendly Media Gallery software layer. The best news? While the L starts at $1,300, the J will arrive next month with a $900 starting price. Sure, there are cheaper models out there, but when doesn’t Sony demand a few extra bucks for its good looks? On that note, we’ll leave you with some polished press shots and the full PR after the break.

Gallery: Sony VAIO J press shots

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May 31 2010

ASUS Eee Tablet: a notepad with impressive 2450 dpi touchscreen sensitivity (updated)

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 4:20 am
Don’t call it the Eee Pad, this is ASUS’ Eee Tablet — a digital notebook with a 2,450 dpi touchscreen and lickity quick 0.1 second page turns on a backlight-less TFT-LCD offering 64-levels of grey. As such, ASUS is calling its Eee Tablet one of the world’s most accurate and sensitive note taking devices available. The other being paper and pencil of course. While the Eee Tablet will serve up texts and ebooks for reading just fine, ASUS is really pushing the note taking feature with built-in notepad templates and the ability to store, sort, tag, and annotate your notes on the fly. It comes packing a MicroSD slot and 2 megapixel camera for snapping lecture slides which students or professionals can then annotate and then sync back to a PC over USB. Battery life? 10 hours — so yeah, it’s not E-Ink… but then again it’s not E-Ink.

Update: We’re checking on the pixel density claims on the floor at Computex, likely a typo in press release.

Update 2: Uh, ok, we’ve received clarification. Apparently, when ASUS says “a 2450 dpi touch resolution screen” they actually mean a 2,450 dpi input sensitivity. In other words, annotations probably will feel like writing on paper.

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May 20 2010

Gateway brings ZX4300 and ZX6900 all-in-one touchscreen PCs into a world of fingers

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 10:18 am

We’ve still yet to find a great reason to eschew our tried-and-true mouse / keyboard tandem in favor of using our desktop with just our fingers, but if you know better, Gateway has a new duo it’d sure love for you to check out. The ZX4300 line, which is the lower-end of the two, gets served AMD’s Athlon II X2 CPU, Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), a 20-inch touchpanel (1,600 x 900 resolution), integrated ATI Radeon HD 4270 graphics, 4GB of DDR3 memory a 640GB hard drive, 8x SuperMulti drive, a bundled wireless keyboard and mouse, inbuilt WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, six USB 2.0 sockets and a pair of five-watt speakers. The Gateway One ZX6900 family sports a 23-inch LCD (1,920 x 1,080), and while the vast majority of the specs mimic the others we’ve mentioned, the Core i3 power plant is a notable reason for paying extra. Speaking of which, the ZX4300-01e is slated to first hit stores next month for $749.99, while the ZX6900-01e lands alongside of it for $1,019.99.

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Apr 27 2010

TomTom Go 1000 Live to offer capacitive touchscreen, WebKit browser

Category: Industry Happenings — admin @ 6:17 am

TomTom has just outed its new flagship PND, the Go 1000 Live, and wouldn’t you know it, it is the first of the company’s stable to offer a capacitive touchscreen. This comes mere days after Garmin updated its lineup with capacitive options, and TomTom is also following suit in the looks department: the 1000 unit is slimmer and somewhat perkier than its predecessors. The external looks are backed up by a 500MHz ARM11 CPU (yawn), a WebKit-based browser, and 12 months of free TomTom Live services. Beginning in June, this suite of services will be rolled out to 33 countries across Europe, featuring local information about petrol prices, services and weather, while its headline HD Traffic — which tracks congestion on secondary roads as well as motorways — and safety camera alert features will come to only 16 nations. It’s a decent year-long freebie to have and TomTom promises it’ll cost less than €50 ($67) per annum thereafter. That’s more reasonable than the previous $9.95 monthly cost, but still not price competitive with Google and Nokia’s offerings. There’s also a SIM card slot, but don’t expect to be developing new modes of sidetalking, it’s most likely there purely to facilitate all those data transactions. Expect the TomTom Go 1000 Live to show up in Europe this summer.

TomTom Go 1000 Live to offer capacitive touchscreen, WebKit browser originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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