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Apple Patent Filing Details Touchscreen Tablet
HTC Touch Diamond Shots and Specs: This Week's Big Announcement?
by Ryan Block, posted May 5th 2008 at 9:49AM
- 2.8-inch VGA display
- WinMo 6.1 Pro
- WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0
- eGPS, FM tuner
- Quad-band HSDPA 7.2
- 4GB internal flash, microSD slot
- 528MHz CPU
- 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
- 10.7mm (0.47-inches) thick
- Supposedly also features an orientation sensor / accelerometer
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Flip Version of iPhone Revealed By Apple Patent?
It's been awhile since the iPhone rocked the mobile world with its simple aesthetics, supple user interface, and overwhelming media hype. The buzz has been silenced as people have long-since settled into the day-to-day routine with their gadgets, but a recently uncovered patent application by Apple indicates that the now familiar iPhone could have looked quite a bit differently at release, or may hint at a second, smaller flip iPhone that's still in the pipeline for some future release.
The patent application pictured above shows what is called a dual-sided touchpad. It's a translucent touchpad that would flip up, clamshell-style, to protect the screen of the phone, though you could still control the phone with the phone closed. For more touch-intensive apps, you could flip it open and use the inside of the touchpad with your index finger.
It looks like a great way to interact with a relatively small-screened device, while also protecting the screen from scratches and from fingerprints. What we don't know, though, is whether this was just an idea that proved impossible to implement or is a device that is, right this very moment, going through the rigors of refinement and testing prior to release.
We probably won't have an answer to that until one of these shows up in the hand of Steve Jobs held high at some Apple event or another. One thing's for sure: Fantasy or reality, we're flipping for this dream of an iPhone.
From Engadget and Unwired View
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Fake Target Employee Steals $17K In iPods
If you've ever had the misfortune of accidentally wearing a red shirt into a Target store, chances are pretty good that you were tapped on the shoulder by some other customer. The store's red shirts are so noticeable that it's hard to not assume anyone wearing red there is an employee. That's exactly the impression a man in Miami Beach, Florida exploited to walk off with $17-thousand worth of Apple's iPod Touch music players.The man, 24-year-old Antonio McKenzie, simply threw on a red polo and wandered into a number of Target stores in southern Florida. On his way to a store's electronics section, he'd help out a few customers before helping himself to the iPods on the shelf. He'd then simply walk out with the devices without anyone stopping him. His antics were noticed on camera, however, and he's currently on the run from the North Miami Police Department.
So, always look for the logo before assuming someone is an employee -- especially if they're walking out of the store with an armful of expensive electronics.
From CBS4
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Apple Cops to Inferior iPod Touch Screens
The most interesting bit of info gleaned from Wall Street Journal tech guru Walt Mossberg's recent review of the iPod Touch is that Apple confirmed to him that some initial Touch units shipped with defective screens. Anyone keeping up on their iPod news recently has certainly read the reports of users complaining that the screen used in the iPod Touch is far inferior to the one used on its half-brother, the iPhone -- the main complaint being an infuriatingly dim screen (see above video). According to Mossberg, Apple claims the problem affects only a small amount of new iPod Touch owners and that a fix is in the works. Apple didn't say exactly what that fix would be, or how many scorned customers a "small amount" is. Mossberg reviewed two units, neither of which demonstrated the dimness problem.
Overall, Mossberg is a fan of the Touch -- as he is of almost anything Apple -- though he does take the device's battery life to task, which he claims does not live up to Apple's claim of 22 hours, but is more like 17.
Once again, it proves wise to wait for Apple to work out the kinks of a new product before buying, lest we forget the scratched-up first generation iPod Nano debacle and hot MacBook woes.
From Engadget
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Delivering Touch and Feel Over the Internet
There's sex on the Internet, but if researchers at Northern Ireland's Queens University are successful you might someday be able to have sex over the Internet. And we don't mean steamy text chats or even a naughty video encounter.
Currently underway at the university's Institute of Electronics, Communications, and Information Technology is a program to deliver the sensation of touch over the Internet. Using what's known as haptic technology, the idea is to use force, vibration and motion to simulate the sense of touch. Though he's given no clue as to what kinds of devices the end user would need to enjoy the new touchy-feely Internet, Professor Alan Marshall and his colleagues envision this new technology adding a new layer of interactivity and immersion to the Internet. Besides sex in virtual worlds such as 'Second Life' and 'World of Warcraft,' this new touch technology opens the door to concepts like being able to feel a pair of jeans before you buy them, or sending a virtual hug to Grandma on her birthday. Even more promising is the prospect of giving the visually impaired a better way to interact with the Web.
Then again, it's all fun and games until some hacker develops a virus that slaps computer users in the face.
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HTC Unveils iPhone-Like Touch
From the iPhone to Microsoft's Surface, devices with touchscreen interfaces are all the rage these days. Now HTC, known for making top notch Windows Mobile phones like the T-Mobile Wing, is adding its own twist on the touchscreen boom with Touch Flo technology.
Touch Flo is a gesture-based input technology, which means you don't simply tap icons and buttons with your finger or stylus, but instead move your finger up and down or left to right to launch and close programs, switch menus, and the like. (When all is said and done, though, it sounds not that different from any other touchscreen, but we'll get back to you after we've tried it out in person.)
Otherwise the Windows Mobile 6 phone is standard smartphone fare, 2.8 inch color screen, 2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and EDGE.
Coming out in Asia and Europe this summer, the phone will be re-branded and released later this year on T-Mobile in the U.S.
From Beta News
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