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Samsung has recently announced two new touchscreen based phones, they are the S5230 and S5600—both of which are expected to come at an affordable price point being targeted at the mid-to-lower tier market. As for the features, the S5230 has a 3-inch full touchscreen WQVGA display, 3-megapixel camera, built-in FM… Continue Reading »

A day later than expected, the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is officially here in the US.  After a false alarm at their NY and Chicago stores yesterday where they got the phones in, but didn’t actually begin selling them, the phones are now officially on the shelves. Nokia delves into… Continue Reading »

The first flexible touchscreen display has been created by Arizona State University’s Flexible Display Center.  ASU’s Flexible Display Center has already made several advances in flexible displays, but this is the first with a touchscreen.  There is no glass in this display.  Since this display is using E Ink, the… Continue Reading »

Asus continues to show off new models in the ever expanding Eee PC lineup, and this latest makes some nice additions feature-wise.  The newest model to get shown off is the Eee PC 1000HG and it will feature support for IEEE 802.16e, WAVE2 and Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n in the 2.4GHz~2.7GHz and… Continue Reading »

Toshiba recently introduced the TG01 smartphone and from the looks of it, Toshiba appears ready to challenge some other touchscreen-based handsets.  Toshiba is referring the TG01 as a device that will “revolutionize the mobile entertainment world.” To begin with, the TG01 features a large 4.1-inch WVGA 800x480 resistive touchscreen display,… Continue Reading »

Wi-Fi connected touchscreen tablets are finally getting closer to the real thing.  Testing out the unproven market niche, two players are getting closer to coming to market from two unlikely sources.  Big manufacturers like Apple, Asus, and others have trouble seeing how this market will differentiate itself from a netbook… Continue Reading »

Running a computer eats up a lot of power.  Sometimes, you just don’t need gigahertz of processing power to watch a DVD or check the weather.  While those instant-on operating systems are not too demanding, they still pull resources.  Asus thinks they have the answer by putting two computers in… Continue Reading »

Chumby may be working with Samsung and Sony, but it doesn’t look like they’re expanding their line up any time soon.  The smallish Chumby booth had rows of picture frame like devices running the open Chumby operating system.  These devices were shown because Chumby is fishing for partners.  These were… Continue Reading »

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Ever since the movie Minority Report came out in 2002, large touch screens have been compared to the infamous one in the movie.  This year at CES, Intel showed off a rough prototype touch screen that involved projecting an image from the rear onto a piece of glass.  We don’t… Continue Reading »

iRiver has unveiled several new additions to its product line, including new network devices, portable media players and navigation units. The new network devices include the Wave-Home, what they describe as a “next generation multimedia communication home device.”  The wave offers an Internet Video Phone, web browser, photo viewer, FM… Continue Reading »