Archive for the ‘Touchscreen’ Category

BlackBerry Touch (Monaco/Monza) Appeared In Wild

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Blackberry Touch or also called Monaco/Monza was caught in the wild. The device was leaked through BGR and the folks have posted several pictures on it. The Touch will be powered with BlackBerry OS 6.1.

The handset features a 3.7-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5-megapixel camera with flash, and a 1.2GHz CDMA/UMTS World Phone hybrid. Its a full touchscreen smartphone, there won’t be any physical keyboard. BlackBerry will be announcing the Touch at BlackBerry World 2011 which held in May.

[via SlashGear]


Facebook Phone INQ’s Cloud Touch Available For Pre-Order

Friday, March 18th, 2011

One of the first Facebook phone is heading to UK. The INQ Cloud Touch is now available for pre-order and expected to be ship by next month, April 6th. The handset runs with Android 2.2 (Froyo).

The 3.5-inch screen device packed with INQ’s custom Facebook app which mostly the main attraction on the homescreen. There’s a 5-megapixel camera on the back of the handset. There will be full Facebook features on the home screen such as Facebook chat, friends, messages, the Facebook Wall and notifications. Not only that, your Facebook Events is integrated with the Google Calendar.

The INQ Cloud Touch obtained WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, GPS and an FM radio. It is now available to pre-order from carphone warehouse. The handset will be available starting April 6 for £20 a month on contract, £199.95 on PAYG or £299.95 SIM free.

Press Release:

PHONE FOR THE SOCIAL MEDIA GENERATION ARRIVES IN THE UK

The INQ Cloud Touch launches exclusively at The Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy

March 18, 2011 – The Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy are pleased to announce the arrival of an exclusive new Android device, the INQ Cloud Touch. Specially designed for social media fans, it has Facebook at its heart and provides quick access to the latest news and whereabouts of friends. It is now available to pre-order from www.carphonewarehouse.com, and will be available from 6 April from just £20 a month on contract, £199.95 on PAYG or £299.95 SIM free.

The INQ Cloud Touch is a sleek touch screen device which runs on the latest Android operating system providing super-fast access to all the latest functions and apps. It features a new Facebook app that streams a live feed to the homescreen while easy to use one-touch links to Chat, Friends, Messages, Wall and Notifications allow users a direct click-through to friends’ updates, pictures, videos and webpages. The phone is also the first to use the Facebook social graph API, which enables users to follow updates from the friends they interact with most.
Consumers can also check in to their favorite shops, restaurants and clubs with Facebook Places, which is also active on the central home screen. If that wasn’t enough, Facebook Events fully integrates with the Google Calendar on both devices.
The INQ Cloud Touch is the first mobile phone to hit the market that has been designed specifically for Facebook users. More devices are expected in the coming months, including the INQ Cloud Q in June, which will also be exclusive to The Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy.

[via SlashGear]


TeleFingers Glove Comes With Capacitive of TouchScreen

Saturday, January 8th, 2011

This year ShowStoppers, TeleFingers is offering their new gloves with capacitive of touch screen. Now, you won’t have problem taking or using your devices during winter time. Since, many handset need direct contact with our finger’s heat, when we used a glove, the device cannot recognize the inputs.

The glove will not only features capacitive of touchscreen but also sport rubber grip on the body of the glove. You can purchase the Telefingers URBAN glove now.

[via SlashGear]


ViewSonic’s Viewpad 7 Android 2.2 Tablet Goes Official

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

ViewSonic is officially announced the ViewSonic Viewpad 7. It comes with a 7-inch touchscreen, a front-facing VGA webcam and a 3-megapixel rear camera. Also, it will runs with the latest Android 2.2 (Froyo). The Viewpad 7 has an integrated GSM/3G modem for phone and data connectivity. Its also capable to work as a regular Android phone although you might need a bluetooth headset for a more comfort conversation.

The Viewpad 7 has WiFi, 3G, GPS, USB, Bluetooth, and microSD ( up to 32GB). It supports a g-sensor flips screen orientation automatically. And of course, it has Android Market in it. The Viewpad 7 will cost £350/$541 in the UK.

Check out the Press Release

ViewSonic Europe ushers in a new product category to its portfolio with the introduction of a premium capacitive multi-touch screen 7″ tablet.

Viewpad 7

The ViewPad 7 is a world’s first 7″ Android 2.2 (Froyo) tablet with phone functionality, multi-tasking capabilities and front and back-facing cameras, VGA and 3MP, resolutions respectively.

Within a lightweight, pocket-sized design, this device is ideal for anyone who needs a mobile connection to the world via email and video and wants to enjoy a wide-range of applications.

With full 3G and phone functionality, a full size SIM card slot and integrated Bluetooth connectivity the ViewPad 7 will support instant messaging, text/mms messaging, VOIP and standard voice calls all in a single device.

It features an easy to use familiar interface with a G-sensor that reorients the screen depending on how the device is held and access to the Google Android app store featuring over 100,000 applications.

Additional features includes a Micro SD slot for up to 32GB of storage; Wi-Fi and 3G functionality for web browsing and USB connectivity. It also boasts advanced features including Assisted GPS and an office document reader, along with the capability for hand-written note taking. There is also an e-book reader, when combined with the crystal clear LED screen, makes the ViewPad 7 an invaluable travelling companion.

Superior to other tablet offerings with resistive touch technology the ViewPad 7 incorporates a capacitive multi-touch screen and is a portable, easy-to-use and competitively priced device that will transform the way that consumers read, watch, listen to and interact with media in a mobile environment.

“We are proud to announce another world first at Viewsonic. 3G phone functionality combined with dual cameras gives the ability for use of Android apps to use augmented reality or video calling on the move with the benefit of an excellent 7″ screen” says Derek Wright, European Product Marketing Manager. “The ViewPad 7 is aimed at users who require the ‘always on’ connectivity they are used to from a mobile phone with a more agreeable screen size for longer term use.”

ViewSonic will be showing the ViewPad 7 at its stand at IFA 2010, in Berlin, Hall 14.1 stand 107.

Pricing and availability

The Viewpad 7 will be available from approved resellers. Pricing will be subject to the supplier’s method of sale, but is anticipated that the estimated SRP will be no more than £350 Inc Vat

[via slashgear]

Samsung Wave Gets Reviewed by SlashGear

Friday, June 4th, 2010

So, the Samsung Wave’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. So much so, in fact, that our good friends over at SlashGear managed to get one sent to them, and sure enough, they’ve been nice enough to give us one of their famous “SlashGear Reviews.” There’s a lot to take in with the Wave, considering it’s the first with the Super AMOLED display, and it’s the first to feature their proprietary mobile Operating System (OS), bada. So, before we bore you to death with a simple introduction, let’s get right into it, shall we?

We’ll keep our version of it short and sweet, because more than anything else we like to have the original review speak volumes. Plus, we borrow all the good pictures, anyway. Hardware wise, SlashGear’s quick to point out that there’s a lot to like about the Wave. It’s got a metal chassis, which goes a long way to give it a far more durable, and not “featurephone” appeal. The 3.2-inch Super AMOLED display takes up the majority of the front of the device, leaving just enough room for the hardware buttons on the bottom. And, on the back, there’s a 5MP camera with an LED flash. You can find a microSD card slot, a 3.5mm audio jack, and the units come in two flavors: 2GB or 8GB, depending on how much space you think you need. Under the hood, you have a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, making sure that the whole thing works better than you might expect.

Of course, we have to take a moment to talk about the display, as it’s one of the defining features of the handset. Thanks to Samsung’s brilliance with displays, they managed to get the gap between the screen’s glass front and the AMOLED layer to a finer point, thus making it a lot easier to use in sunlight. However, you still won’t be using it in direct sunlight, so don’t get your hopes up too much. Samsung did well with the colors as well: they made the visuals on the screen with a high-visibility color scheme in mind, so that no matter what you’ll be able to see what you’re doing. The Super part of the AMOLED goes a long way to make it so the colors are far more saturated than the predecessor, but the display is also brighter and more crisp. It all works together to make one amazing screen.

Now, time for bada. Right off the bat, it won’t look anything different than Samsung’s proprietary User Interface (UI), known as TouchWiz. It’s the same kind of look and feel that’s been featured on all sorts of Samsung’s touchscreen devices, so if you’re at all familiar with it, you’ll probably be right at home. However, there are some changes, all of which make more of a statement in the power of the OS, as well as the features it supports. For example, there are a few more active and dynamic widgets, rather than simple icon links, or portals to the web application. There’s a widget/application pre-installed on the device to aggregate your social networking, from the likes of Twitter and Facebook, which you can use right from one of the homescreens to reply, retweet, comment, or “like,” as you see fit, and what’s appropriate for the social networking tool, of course.

In the end though, the Wave may just be too many amalgamations between the iPhone (its User Interface/icons), Android (widgets, social networking aggregators and integration), and the familiar look of TouchWiz. It just doesn’t feel fresh enough to warrant a brand new Operating System. However, the hardware speaks volumes, and there’s nothing really “negative” about the OS, so picking up a Samsung Wave won’t make you the sad kid on the block, that’s for sure. Now, for a far more in-depth review, head on over to SlashGear and check it out. In the mean time, check out the video and pictures below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

[via SlashGear]