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- Touch Screen
- A display screen that is sensitive to the touch of a finger or stylus. Touch screens are very resistant to harsh environments where keyboards might eventually fail. They...
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- RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working
- RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics
- News items 2008-05-16
- Photos: Bill Gates shows off 'TouchWall'
- At Microsoft CEO Summit 2008, Bill Gates shows off a new multi-touch user interface technology. by Andy Smith
- Tags: Bill Gates, Photograph, Andy Smith, touch screen, Touchwall, Microsoft, Microsoft CEO Summit
- Image galleries 2008-05-14
- Samsung Glyde SCH-U940 (Verizon Wireless)
- Photo gallery:Samsung Glyde SCH-U940Ever since we first played with the Samsung F700 last year at CTIA, we've been waiting for it to come to America. And starting today, it finally has arrived on our shores--at least in a way. The new Samsung Glyde SCH-U940 for Verizon Wireless offers the same...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Cellular phones, Verizon Wireless, touch sensitivity, Glyde, Samsung F700, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., touch screen, Samsung Glyde SCH-U940, LG Electronics Inc., display, handset
- Product reviews 2008-05-08
- LG Vu
- Photo gallery:LG VuThe LG Vu has been a long time coming. Ever since we saw the LG Prada early last year, we wanted a similar handset for the U.S. market. Not soon after, we grew jealous of our international cousins for having access to the LG Viewty, the 5.0-megapixel successor...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, display, LG Vu, LG Electronics Inc., touch screen
- Product reviews 2008-05-01
- iKlax Player
- iKlax Player plays .iklax files; It is inspired by graphics of touch screen technology products, it features all the original navigation and action functionalities to run iKlax files. The design reflects countless hours of development and testing to insure seamless, ergonomic use. On the left side, the user will find...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Track, iKlax Media, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components
- Software downloads 2008-04-23
- Samsung Armani
- When the LG Prada hit the scene more than a year ago, touch-screen phones were still a novelty. It stood out from the rest of the crowd with its sleek, minimalist look and designer house backing. Since then, the Apple iPhone has taken the touch-screen crown and has become the...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Branding, Armani, touch screen, phone, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-04-17
- Software that can improve the UI on your Windows Mobile device
- We all know that the iPhone has an amazing user interface, but it is debatable on whether or not the iPhone meets the essential needs of the business and power user. Many folks in the enterprise have Windows Mobile touch screen devices that have advanced functionality that can do just...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Keyboards, Handhelds, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Yet another iPhone killer: Samsung's Instinct
- Gizmodo's got the line on a new touch-screen iPhone competitor from Sprint and Samsung called Instinct. Announced at CTIA, the 3.1-inch touchscreen Instinct has a few things that iPhone doesn't, namely localized haptic feedback, EV-DO Rev A, GPS, microSD slot, and three (count 'em) hard navigation keys....
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Instinct, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sprint Communications, Gizmodo, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, GPS, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- LG Glimmer
- Alltel has long been the fifth wheel when compared with the big four national carriers. It isn't offered in as many states, and its cell phone lineup has traditionally been rather mediocre and stale (with a few notable exceptions like the LG Scoop and the Motorola Rokr Z6m). That has...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, LG Glimmer, LG Electronics Inc., touch screen, phone
- Product reviews 2008-03-27
- Panasonic's new Lumix DMC-FX500 sports a 3-inch touch screen and 25mm wide-angle lens
- Panasonic's new Lumix DMC-FX500 sports a 3-inch touch screen and 25mm wide-angle lensNice, but......I would gladly trade the big screen for a decent viewfinder. Doesn't anyone shoot outdoors anymore?I AgreeThe optical viewfinder is fast becomming a lost feature even in the digital SLR crowd. My wife got me a...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Lumix DMC-FX500, Panasonic, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Panasonic's new Lumix DMC-FX500 sports a 3-inch touch screen and 25mm wide-angle lens
- I was a big fan of Panasonic's DMC-FX35 until today. Panasonic just announced the new DMC-FX500 that has everything I like about the FX35 and then some. Like the FX35, the DMC-FX500 is a 10-megapixel model that offers optical image stabilization, face detection, digital red-eye correction, intelligent exposure, and the...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Panasonic, Camera, FX35, FX500, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Sudoku ported to Android
- I've written a free Android version of Sudoku. It's very basic, but after I clean it up I hope it will serve as a good example to beginning Android programmers. Here's a screen shot: The source code and binaries can currently be found...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Theme, Eclipse, Documentation, Emulator, Android, Android Life Cycle, Android SDK, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- RIM CEO implies touchscreen BlackBerry is possible
- Last week, I made a post uncovering the a just-published BlackBerry Patent application for technology that would enable a touchscreen BlackBerry. Well, today at the Mobile World Congress, Jim Balsillie, the co-CEO of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion strongly implied that this could very well happen. ...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Research In Motion Ltd., RIM BlackBerry, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Android at WMC from a developer's perspective
- Android at WMC from a developer's perspectiveEarly ImpresssiionsLong term I think keypads will go out of style and touch screens will rule. The display really needs to be as large as possible on these phones and I am not convinced people want slider phones.The web browsing experience on the iPhone/iTouch...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Telecom & Utilities, keypad, touch screen, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Move over, iPhone: touchscreen BlackBerry imminent, clues say
- Move over, iPhone: touchscreen BlackBerry imminent, clues sayPublication delay unrelated to commercial useThere is no connection within the patent system between commercial use of an invention and the delay between filing and publication.Also, publication dates are 18 months after the _earliest_ filing or priority date, so if a patent application...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, touch screen, RIM BlackBerry, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-02-09
- Patent app points to touchscreen BlackBerry
- Patent app points to touchscreen BlackBerrypatent & spin doctoringFor some time now I have been wondering if patent registration could be used for spin doctoring? Why would RIM want to ma a touch screen device, it is completely unlogical. Having your competitors believe you are experimenting with this would make...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, RIM BlackBerry, touch screen, patent, Hillary Clinton
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
- Patent app points to touchscreen BlackBerry
- A new BlackBerry Patent application published this morning strongly points to a touchscreen BlackBerry- similar to the touchscreen iPhone. It's also important to note that although most BlackBerry Patent applications are only published 18 months after they are filed, this one has only a four-month gap. These...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Disclosure, Electrode, Voltage, RIM BlackBerry, LCD, Patent Abstract, Touchscreen Liquid-crystal Display, Pixel Element, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Move over, iPhone: touchscreen BlackBerry imminent, clues say
- A new BlackBerry Patent application published this morning strongly points to a touchscreen BlackBerry- similar to the touchscreen iPhone. It's also important to note that although most BlackBerry Patent applications are only published 18 months after they are filed, this one has only...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Disclosure, Electrode, Voltage, RIM BlackBerry, LCD, Patent Abstract, Touchscreen Liquid-crystal Display, Pixel Element, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Nokia N810 Internet Tablet
- Nokia isn't foolish enough to think that its line of Internet Tablets is going to attract everyone. The company has readily admitted that it's for a certain audience--gadget lovers and early adopters--and we certainly agree with that statement. However, with every successive model, we also see more appeal in such...
- Tags: Tablets, Keyboards, Notebooks, user interface, Nokia N810, Nokia Corp., Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, tablet, touch screen
- Product reviews 2008-01-29
- HP Pavilion tx2000z
- If this 12-inch convertible tablet laptop looks familiar, that's because almost exactly one year ago, we saw HP's first so-called entertainment tablet, the Pavilion tx1000. That system impressed us with media control buttons, dual headphone jacks, and a finger-sensitive touch screen, making for one of the only tablets we've seen...
- Tags: Tablets, Keyboards, Notebooks, Processors, tablet, stylus, HP Pavilion, tx1000, touch screen, pen, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2008-01-29
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