Archive for: resistive
Hear that? That’s the rumor train haulin’ into your neck of the woods. On board is a fresh rumor that Nokia fans will take quite a liking to. Even though the N900 is still unreleased, if this rumor holds true, Nokia isn’t wasting any time moving on to bigger and badder fish to conquer, namely the HTC HD2. The N920 will feature a larger, 4.13″ multi-touch capable touchscreen as well as a slimmer body. Or so I would assume as the slide out physical keyboard is getting nixed in favor of a finger on screen method. With such an early lead, more important details such as specs, price, availability etc. are pretty much nil at this point. An upgraded processor is a given, but is the lack of a real keyboard going to tie you to the N900? Ok, ok. If you have to have something to look forward to, a Q1/Q2 2010 announcement/release doesn’t sound too far off. A word for Nokia: Let’s see if we can’t finally catch up with the times and toss a capacitive screen in their huh? It would be much appreciated.
Gadget Venue > Nokia Port
- September 30, 2009 8:06 am
Even though I’m not very well versed (read: not at all) in the Windows Mobile world, the Touch Pro2 is a striking handset with good looking hardware and some pretty decent specs to boot. The sky high price tag a couple retailers such as Sprint and T-Mobile were charging was a huge sticking point however. Sure the TP2 is a good phone, but is it $349 good? Many and I would venture to say most would claim “No”. Noticing the math error, Sprint has gone ahead and restored some sense of civility to their high end line up by bringing the TP2 price tag down a few notches where it should be more widely accepted. The price by the way comes in at $199 though it’s worth noting you’re going to have to do the whole MIR tango to get your cash back. Still it’s a lot better than before. With Sprint pulling back on the price as well as Verizon’s already low TP2 price means we could see TMO bring their TP2 asking price crashing down as well. Hey you know how it is — when businesses compete, the consumer wins.
By the way, if you happen to be one of the poor souls reading this and simultaneously planning to bash your face into the screen you may want to hold off and give eCare a call. Doing so could net you a $100 credit. That is of course if you purchased your TP2 within the last 30 days. Day 31?….resume face smashing plans…
**Update here
BGR > PPC Geeks
- September 18, 2009 6:48 am
In a move that was clearly obvious and needed if Palm was in fact serious about webOS’s future, the boys in red (ink) have officially announced that going forward, all Palm handsets will feature webOS and webOS only. The announcement was made at Palm’s earnings call likely in hopes to take everyone’s mind off the vast amounts of red ink the company is going through. One thing is for certain however, Windows Mobile won’t be seen lurking around Palm hardware anytime soon. Can’t say I’m disappointed. Though there may be a few Palm users who reminisce about some new age Treo coming to light. Sorry to say but those dreams are all but shattered now. In all reality however, webOS looks amazing and with a little more refinement and development time will become already is a better mobile OS than WinMo that will only get better as time goes on. Any tears being shed?
Source: Geeky-Gadgets, Electric-Pig, Image Source
- September 16, 2009 1:18 pm
The HTC Leo, (pictured left) which for all intents and purposes a beast, is by far the phone I am most excited about in the near term, mostly because of that big, fat, 1GHz processor crammed underneath that 4.3″ display. The Leo which we looked at just a day or two ago packs enough muscle to actually make Windows Mobile bearable. Now don’t get me wrong, unless there is some wickedly nice skin on top of the shipping version of WinMo, I still couldn’t call this my daily driver, though I would be less hesitant to. Getting to the real meat of the story, the manly processor within will reportedly allow the Leo to support multi-gesture/touch features (meaning no sign of resistive BS in sight!) meaning WinMo just became a lot more relevant. There’s still that awful UI going on but HTC as well as several others have found ways around that. What’s the verdict. Does the HTC Leo and it’s added power mean WinMo 6.5 could be a contender for your dollars?
Source: WM Power User
- September 16, 2009 5:54 am
Archos is certainly poised to launch an all out assault on the mobile market place if they keep showcasing and releasing products such as this mysterious and so far unknown device. This unnamed beaut is so far known to pack Android, a 4.3″ WVGA touchscreen (capacitive?), 1GHz ARM CPU, plus many other specs that are sure to leave most other handsets second guessing their existence. This will definitely be a handset worth following. Stay tuned to find out if this unit becomes a true power player or merely a feature filled, spec’d out device poorly deployed. But for sanities sake, we sure hope the latter doesn’t come true. The only things I can see currently that would greatly upset me as well as many I’m sure is the usage of a resistive touchscreen instead of capactive. Other than that, minor hardware changes here and there shouldn’t be too big of a problem. Archos, surprise us!
Source: Into Mobile, Engadget Mobile
- September 16, 2009 5:27 am
One of the main draws to the iPhone is the touchscreen only design making it smaller as well as giving users access to countless keyboards and languages without the need for costly hardware changes. However, some people still want a bit more physical interaction in their lives. Introducing the iTwinge. For those of you who just simply must have something to touch, this little doo dad slips over the bottom half of the iPhone that is normally displaying a keyboard and gives you something a little more tangible to handle. It appears that it is an actual hardware piece that plugs in to the iPhone dock — unlike other solutions such as the Pogo Stylus which is a fancy coating that allows more precise input while giving the illusion of being physical and still working on the iPhone’s magical touchscreen. Well that was fast. The iTwinge isn’t a piece of “hardware” in the typical sense. It is as in reality just a funky sleeve that slides over dear iPhone and gives it a more “physical feel”. Request stands: Anyone care to shed any info or experiences? For a touch over $30, is this dock-able/sleeve keyboard “enhancement” worth it?
Source: Engadget, Chip Chick
- September 14, 2009 11:44 am
So you’re still drooling over the TouchPro2? Old news. Forget that “tiny” thing. The HTC Leo is where it’s at. How so you ask? How about an 800 x 400 4.3″ touchscreen dominating the device? This thing is big. The picture above shows that it easily outsizes the TouchPro2, which, by itself is on the larger end of things. Whether or not this beaut of a screen is capacitive or the less favorable resistive is still up in the air so stay tuned. To put the HTC Leo in perspective, it’s a lot like taking you 4.3″ GPS unit and shoving it in your pocket — not exactly the most comfortable thing to put in your pocket…but I digress. I certainly wouldn’t mind the bulge however. Imaging the amazement on your friends’ faces when you whip out this behemoth of a device. As soon as something other than WinMo becomes available (if ever) on the HTC Leo, I’m all over it. Until then I’ll sit back and scowl in envy. If only it were packin’ Android…
A couple more pics loitering just inside…
- September 10, 2009 11:55 am
Too small. Excuse me? If you were wondering why HTC went with a resistive screen on the HTC Tattoo instead of the much more finger friendly capacitive screen, try to push the theories of cost from your minds (we all know it) and fixate on HTC’s official response via Twitter which simply stated that the screen is too small. At smaller sizes capacitive screens will register more miss clicks. Really? Too small at 2.8″? I’m sure the 0.2-0.4 inches of difference doesn’t really make that much of a difference. Hey, cynicism aside, I’m sure HTC has done their homework…*hope*. So the horse’s mouth has spoken…are you convinced?
Source: Phandroid, Android Central
Ya know, while I really enjoy using my Macbook Pro and a few other Apple pieces of hardware, I am really, really beginning to despise this piece of shit called an iPhone and the company that makes it. Why the harsh, colorful, anti-elementary language? iStat Pro was a great little memory management app (I use that term loosely because Apple’s BS restrictions restrict any “memory management app” being used to their fullest potential) that would show you all sorts of information about the memory being used at any given point by your iPhone. But the best feature was the “free memory” option that allowed users to reclaim several to ten’s of megabytes of memory back from applications that had already closed, or were simply nibbling away at available memory for no reason at all.
Apparently Apple loves to make their apps suck, has a sick fascination with negative publicity, or is actively trying to push users to other platforms. If you haven’t guessed by now, let me spell it out for you: Apple forced the developers of iStat Pro to remove the free memory option from their app. So, if you liked/used that particular option a lot, you’re going to want to never upgrade iStat Pro again. Shame I know.
Seriously, now it’s getting ridiculous. I can’t wait to get rid of this stupid, locked device where I have absolutely no control some control (jailbreak FTW) over my device. While many other companies would get a hailstorm of bad press, and Apple probably will in the blogosphere, the mainstream media will continue on, loving their little shackled devices.
The iStat developers said they thought long and hard about their options. I would have seriously stopped all iPhone development, lose some cash, and cut some employees if I had to. That’s the hard honest truth. Maybe then that stupid fruit would get a clue. For Apple to first approve an app and approve several updates and then all of a sudden go “oopsie” and take away the only real reason for buying said app in the first place, well, FUCK YOU APPLE! Maybe if we bitch loud/long enough, Apple will change some of their ways (don’t hold your breath) and we can finally get some common sense to infiltrate the iron curtain of stupidity that surrounds Apple HQ.
Anyone else a bit angered? Join in below!
Source: BGR
