09 Feb 10 More rumors of Amazon Kindles with color screens
Last week, we reported that there might be some serious rumors about color touchscreen Kindles.
The rumor has sprouted some more as Amazon now has job listings looking for a Hardware Display manger who knows LCDs, as well as a Wi-Fi specialist.
Well, we will see if e-ink or color screens are going to be the way of the Kindle.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: amazon kindle, color screen Kindle, Kindle, touchscreen
09 Feb 10 Nokia 5230 Nuron Spotted
With reports of the Nokia 5230 Nuron coming out, the only definite thing here is that the phone is one and not different. The Nokia 5230 Nuron was shared by TmoNews through an internal T-Mobile documentation.
Features of the Nokia 5230 Nuron include a 3.2” touchscreen, an on-screen keyboard and OviStore. The Nokia 5230 Nuron is scheduled to come out by March 17. No word on pricing.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Tags: nokia 5230, Nokia Nuron, OviStore, touchscreen
15 Jan 10 HTC Pure Cell Phone Review–Loads Of Great Tools
The crew out at Puremobile sent another great phone out our way to review, and this time, we’re going to be tangling with the HTC Pure.
The HTC Pure comes with a five megapixel camera–yeah, FIVE–a battery capable of five hours and thirty six minutes of talk time, Wifi connectivity, a memory card slot, a built-in stylus holder, XM Radio, Windows Media player, mobile web, mobile video, a panoply of game demos (I for one love the fact that there’s sudoku on this phone.), calculator, GPD, voice recorder, Adobe reader, and plenty, plenty more.
First off, I’ve never used a phone where I had to ASSEMBLE the AC adapter. Seriously, I felt like a sniper, snapping this thing together piece by piece before I could charge the battery up to try it. I’m not happy about the fact that there’s no headphone jack here, but rather a mini USB plug instead. That left me unable to try the FM radio, and I love trying the FM radio, because it’s a great quality measure. If you can get longer range channels, it’s a better unit, plain and simple. Also, I LOVE that built-in stylus holder. It goes where your phone does, easily and unobtrusively.
But frankly, the HTC Pure offers so much great stuff that it’s hard to be annoyed with it at all. It’s a great phone that offers probably more stuff than anyone could use in a lifetime, offers incredible customizability and has a host of tools for nearly any situation.
The Good
Loads of tools
Fairly simple to operate
Built in stylus holder
The Bad
No independent headphone jack
Some assembly required
Score 8 / 10
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: At&T, cell phone, HTC, htc pure, mobile phone, stylus, touchscreen
09 Jan 10 A simple touchscreen test
The smart folks at MOTO, a consulting firm on technology, have released a simple, and rather genius way of determining the quality of the touchscreen on devices. Just watch the video above.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: MOTO, touchscreen
31 Dec 09 Samsung r800 Delve Cell Phone Review–Touch Screen Heavy
Samsung brings out a new and pretty interesting model with their r800 Delve cell phone, a phone that takes a lot of chances. The question, of course, being–will buyers approve of the chances they take? My answer? Well, mostly.
The Samsung r800 Delve is a candy bar style cell phone with conference call capability, a phone book with capacity for five hundred names and numbers, mobile email and internet browser, seventy two built-in ring tones, a two megapixel digital camera (the camera even boasts a variety of features), alarm clock, calendar, basic calculator, stopwatch, MP3 recorder, and a maximum of two hundred eighty two minutes talk time on a single charge.
What’s most unusual about the Samsung r800 Delve is that it depends almost exclusively on touch screen controls–there are precious few external controls of any type to be had here. This may not matter to some people, and may be a good thing to others, but will definitely turn off some who’d rather not be poking their finger at the screen every time they want to make a call.
But one thing’s clear enough–the Samsung r800 has plenty of great features, even if you’re not fond of the interface.
The Good
Lots of great features
Compact styling
The Bad
Almost exclusively touchscreen-driven with minimal outside control
Score: 7/10
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: candy bar, Samsung, Samsung r800, Samsung r800 Delve, touchscreen
30 Dec 09 Swype beta for Android leaks
If you’re a Windows Mobile user you probably know about Swype; the touchscreen QWERTY keyboard touchscreen method that allows users to type by sliding a finger from letter to letter. Android users, on the other hand, have been left in the dark.
Luckily, a beta version of Swype can be downloaded thanks to a leak provided by DROIDMUFF.IN.
Snag it here.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: Android, Beta, Swype, touchscreen
29 Dec 09 Past BlackBerry prototype appears
What you see above is reportedly a prototype BlackBerry that never made it to market. We have no name or anything of the sort but it’s quite obvious that the device features a touchscreen of sorts. Couple that with a trackpad and you have yourself either a very shoddy touchscreen or an amazing navigational experience.
While it’s not certain, PocketBerry notes that there is potentially a slideout QWERTY keyboard buried underneath there. Sure, it’s not the prettiest of phones but it’s probably mean at handling email.
What do you think? Would you have bought this phone.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: BlackBerry, prototype, Qwerty keyboard, touchscreen
03 Nov 09 Touchscreen Cellphone adoption on the US is pretty high…
As expected, the adoption of touchscreen mobile phones in the US is growing pretty fast. According to comScore at the moment there are 24 million touchscreen phones, which makes it close to a 150% growth rate when comparing to 2008.
In case you are wondering, the number one of the top 10 list of touchscreen devices is obviously the iPhone, which has 32,9% of the “share”. In second and third place we’ve got LG models, more specifically the Dare and the Voyager. As for the fourth place, it’s the BlackBerry Storm with 7,0%, and the next in the list is the Palm Treo with 6,5%.
Donovan, from comScore, comments:
The iPhone clearly set the trend in the industry for touchscreen devices, so it’s no surprise that it has the largest share of the market,” added Donovan. “But as other players have entered the touchscreen market with compelling devices, competition is clearly heating up.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: Cellphone, comscore, touchscreen
02 Nov 09 Samsung Moment on Sprint for $179.99
Early last month we let you know that an Android powered device called the Samsung Moment would be making its way onto Sprint at some time in the near future. Well today word has been sent out that the Moment is now available at $179.99 after a 2-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate.
This device features an 800MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3.2mp camera, WiFi and GPS.
via engadget
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: AMOLED, Moment, Qwerty keyboard, Samsung, Sprint, touchscreen
22 Oct 09 T-Mobile Pulse pre-paid now available in UK
If you’re living in the UK and looking for a nice pre-paid handset then you should definitely check out the T-Mobile Pulse. This phone has recently been put up for sale as a pre-paid device for T-Mobile UK and is available now.
The T-Mobile Pulse features Google’s Android operating system a 3.5″ touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, 3G, WiFi, GPS and 2GB of internal storage.
If you’re looking to pick up the Pulse you’re looking at £176.16 or about $291.
via talkandroid
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: 2GB, 3.2 megapixel, 3G, GPS, huawei, Pulse, T-Mobile, touchscreen, WiFi
18 Oct 09 Unannounced Android phone gets pictured
What you see above is a picture of an unannounced HTC developed Android powered handset. Unfortunately, we have virtually no details as to what this handset is called, what carrier it will appear on or what the specs are.
From the pictures we could tell that it obviously features a touchscreen, some face buttons and some sort of camera.
We’ll keep you posted as more information is made known.
via the unlockr
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: Android, camera, HTC, touchscreen, unannounced
14 Oct 09 HTC HD2 on its way to T-Mobile
A few days ago we let you know that the HTC HD2 would be available unlocked in the UK for around $740. Well, not only is that a steep price but it gives us no hint to North American availability.
However, the above image has hit the web that lets us know that the HD2 is on its way to T-Mobile with its 4.3-inch touch screen and Snapdragon processor.
Is this image to be believed?
via tmonews
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: hd2, HTC, Image, rumor, SnapDragon, T-Mobile, touchscreen
06 Oct 09 Tantao News Mobile Reader for Blackberry Phones Released
Handmark and Tantao News Network have announced the availability of the Tantao News Mobile Reader for Blackberry mobile phones, offering global and domestic news updates originating from Chinese news sources. With the new app, Blackberry users can now get unique content which they can also share via their social networks like Facebook and Twitter. As people continue to demand for immediate access for varying resources, the Tantao News Mobile Reader is a must have to broaden the scope of updated news and information.
The Tantao News Mobile Reader currently available for all BlackBerry smartphones with a trackball or touchscreen and will be available for additional platforms in the coming months. You can download the app here.
(Source) Press
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: BlackBerry, chinese news, domestic news, Facebook, handmark, mobile reader, news network, news sources, news updates, platforms, smartphones, social networks, touchscreen, trackball, twitter
05 Oct 09 Samsung Behold II (SGH-t939) Released
Samsung and T-Mobile USA have announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Behold II, a mobile phone that runs on the Android platform. The phone carries the same touchscreen features most phones provide today using Samsung’s TouchWiz user interface for widget customization and T-Mobile’s high speed 3G network. Other features of the Samsung Behold II include a 5 megapixel camera, visual voicemail, an MP3 player, GPS, Bluetooth and 16GB of internal memory.
Image credits: Phandroid
(Source) Press
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: bluetooth, customization, high speed, image credits, internal memory, megapixel camera, memory image, mobile phone, mobile usa, MP3 Player, Samsung, T-Mobile, touchscreen, user interface, widget
30 Sep 09 Smart Devices’ SmartQ5a MID now shipping with Android
It was recently made known that E World has put up a SmartQ5a MID, pictured above), for sale pre-installed with Android 1.5.
For $199.99, other than Android 1.5 you will get a 667MHz Samsung ARM processor, 128MB of RAM, a 4.3-inch touchscreen, WiFi and a microSD slot.
Interested? Head here to check it out.
via engadget
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: Android, microsd, Samsung, smart devices, smartq5a, touchscreen, WiFi
29 Sep 09 Philips to Launch New Phones: X806 and C702
Philips never lets us forget the fact that it’s still making handsets. And some of its latest cell phones look better than you’d expect. The latest models are the X806 and the C702 but you might have a rough time getting one since they’ll most likely go to China.
The X806 will sport quad-band GSM/GPRS, a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, a 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, FM radio, 47MB (nice round number) of internal memory upgradeable via microSD card. The C702 knows how to handle CDMA 1x connectivity and it comes with a 3.4-inch touchscreen display, 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS, 70MB of internal memory also upgradeable via microSD cards.
How much would you pay to get one of these Philips handsets?
via mobile-review
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: C702, China, Philips, touchscreen, X806
28 Sep 09 RIM to Launch QWERTY Touchscreen BlackBerry?
Currently there are lots of phones which can offer you both a touchscreen display and a full QWERTY keyboard, but strangely none of them has been conceived by RIM. The phone maker has plenty of QWERTY-only phones but only two touchscreen-only phones. Apparently RIM is secretly working on a cell phone that will bring us both the touchscreen and the full keyboard. As you expect such a BlackBerry will look exactly like the Storm but it will have a very useful and a much needed slide-out QWERTY keypad. Nothing is clear so far and nothing is official. Hopefully more stuff will be revealed about Mr. T (that’s the codename of the project) in the following months.
via berryreporter
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: BlackBerry, Mr. T, qwerty, RIM, touchscreen
26 Sep 09 RAmos officially announced the W7 MID
The device you see above entitled the W7 looks pretty much exactly what you would think Apple’s fabled iTablet would look like except for one major difference: it runs Google’s Android operating system.
RAmos’ W7 MID features a 4.8-inch 800×480 touchscreen, 720p video output and built in WiFi.
As you probably could have guessed there is little to no information regarding this device’s North American release date.
via engadget
Popularity: 1% [?]
18 Sep 09 ASUS’ AiGuru SV1T touchscreen videophone
Now a days, a stand alone videophone would seem like a waste of money considering you can’t do anything with it besides make video calls. However, 20-30 years ago, such a device would be the most amazing thing ever. Well, it seems that ASUS is a bit late as they have recently shown off the above AiGuru SV1T videophone for use with Skype.
Honestly though, this the AiGuru SV1T videophone is a pretty nifty device with an 800×480 7-inch touchscreen display, WiFi and Ethernet connectivity, a VGA webcam, microphone and speakers.
Unfortunately, due to the fact that it will probably be priced right around $300, it will most likely never come off because why buy one of these when you can jut get a netbook for the same price that does the same thing, plus more?
Read (ASUS)
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: aiguru sv1t, ASUS, Skype, touchscreen, VGA, videophone
18 Sep 09 Verizon launching HTC Imago on October 6th?
Recent reports have surfaced that suggest Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch the Windows Mobile 6.5 powered HTC Imagio on October 6th.
This device is said to feature a 3.6-inch touchscreen in addition to a 528MHz Qualcomm processor, 512MB ROM/256MB RAM, a 5MP camera, GPS, GSM and full compatibility with Verizon’s CDMA/EV-DO network.
Any takers?
via bgr
Popularity: 1% [?]
Tags: CDMA, ev-do, GPS, GSM, htc imagio, rumor, touchscreen, Verizon, Windows Mobile 6.5
