Here is a official video from Toshiba, showing a summary of what you can expect from the TG01 user interface. Running on top of the Windows Mobile OS, the 3D touch inteface is powered by the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 1GHz CPU and designed for one-handed use with shake control. Check out the video inside.
Apparently RIM is going full speed with touch screen phones. BGR has posted about the new BlackBerry that is reported to make an appearance at WES 2009 (Wireless Enterprise Symposium, May 2009): a US bound HSDPA Storm and a touchscreen BlackBerry with a full QWERTY keyboard!
The first, yeah, might be least surprising, would be a new US-spec HSDPA Storm.
The second one, it’s a mix between the Bold/Storm/with a Javelin form factor — but definitely touch (see the mega-blurry photo). Watch out Palm, a new horror is coming soon. “This could be a really hot device as many current BlackBerry owners love the physical keyboard,” as i4u wrote. Information Week added, being able to use the excellent Bold keyboard for messages while still having a touch-screen for quick-launching apps would be a dream.
The handset, according to BlackBerryNews, is in the alpha stages right now. Its internal name is “Magnum.” Obviously, no pricing is available at this time.
I certainly am excited about this, but when it comes to the launch dates, I became more sceptic due to RIM’s track records. “RIM takes something like forever to release anything these days, so we probably won’t see any of this till 2034,” as CrunchGear wrote. He eh.
Yeah, it’s just the matter of time Nokia would come up with other touchscreen devices after XpressMusic 5800. Logically, the next touchscreen devices will be coming from E-Series and N-Series portfolios. At this weekend, the Finnish giant confirms that an N-Series touchscreen device!
“We will have lot of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon,” said Devinder Kishore, director marketing, Nokia India at an event in New Delhi as quoted by CellPassion.
The “very soon” might be meaning as “it will happen before the end of 2008, or at least in early 2009″. Yay!
[CellPassion via Engadget]
The touchscreen capabilities in mobile devices are getting more popular now. A recent research stated that the global revenue of the touchscreen market will reach $5 billion next year. No wonder that nearly all mobile handset manufacturers are getting into touch screens and forcefully offer them to the growing mobile customers around the world.
Touch screens have been available for some time and are found in a variety of fixed and portable devices, but it was the launch of Apple’s iPhone that refocused the public’s attention on them as never before. Shipments in 2007 of touch screen-based mobile devices increased 91% over 2006, and ABI Research forecasts that revenue from the global touch screen market for mobile phones and other handheld devices such as MIDs, UMPCs, and PNDs will reach $5 billion in 2009.
“Nearly all mobile handset manufacturers are getting into touch screens to a greater or lesser extent,” says research director Kevin Burden. “The acceptance of touch screens to date has varied by geographic region, which has been a significant factor in determining the success of individual handset vendors.”
[via Cellular News]
Yeah, it’s been five months since Velocity Mobile 103 leaked around the blogosphere and now, finally, they’ve announced the retail availability of the first touchscreen phone. The Velocity Mobile 103 combines Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, an Odyssey Interface, Velocity Over The Air updates (Vota) and will ship by the end of September for £334.99.
Specifications
[via CrunchGear]