By translating characters into Morse-code style vibrations on a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, researchers at the Finnish University of Tampere were able to allow the blind to read Braille on a touchscreen. Sharp pulses would indicate a full indentation, while low, long ones would indicate blanks. “It took some time for them to start reading,…
Microsoft Surface arrives in UK sporting whopper of a price-tag!
TechDigest has had the opportunity to play with the Microsoft home-table-computer thing they call “surface” – to be (a bit) clearer, it’s a computer, with a huge touchscreen, in a table form factor – the idea being it can do loads of cool things whilst you rub…er…. touch it. If you’re like me, and…
The Signal: Talking Touch with Synaptics
Synaptics has been in the touch tech game for a good long time now – you might recall seeing their logo in your laptop’s system tray to keep tabs on the touchpad functions. Well, they do lots in the mobile end of things as well. Andrew Hsu talks with us about working with fragmented platforms…
Touchscreens: who’s got it right and wrong…?
These days, seemingly not an hour goes by before another touchscreen device is announced (okay, it might not be hourly, but it does seem to happen quite often!). Yes, touchscreen has become de rigeur this year, and if you don’t have some mechanism to rub your equipment, then you just ain’t part of the cool…
UK: Samsung Omnia discontinued at Orange – NOT
Mobile News has an interesting story on the Samsung Omnia @ Orange UK….. Customers at Orange staff are apparently claiming that retail staff have said the Omnia has been discontinued – which both Samsung and Orange are denying. The whole thing apparently kicked off with forum threads on a Money saving site in the UK…
Concept shots show touchscreen Nokia Communicator
During a webcast on the S60 platform, Nokia let slip some pictures of a Communicator-class device packing a touchscreen. Before you get too excited, just keep in mind that these are just concepts showing what could possibly be coming next for the S60 Touch UI. Nokia’s E90 series has found quite a following among those…
Nokia Tube coming next week?
Two sources have claimed that Nokia’s next XpressMedia device, the 5800 Tube, will be announced next week on October 2nd. at a London media event. This would jibe well with previous rumours, and give it some fine placement for the Christmas rush. As Nokia’s first touchscreen device and with a focus on media, the Tube…
Xperia X1 – is the touch UI actually not great….?
OK so just throwing this out there … but … is the touch UI of the Xperia actually not very good at all? I say this based on watching the video that Will posted about the other day – from what I saw, the demonstrator had to catch the screen square-on with his finger, with…
Touchscreens getting big for Asian market
ABI Research’s latest report took a look at the growing popularity of touchscreen devices and what their future is looking like. Since 2006, shipments have nearly doubled, and forecasts are claiming a $5 billion market in 2009. As promising as that sounds, the increasing adoption differs widely according to geography. For example, Samsung and Motorola…
Win a Tocco, have some fun, courtesy of Samsung!
How would you like to win a Samsung Tocco, and have some quiz-based fun in to the bargain? I thought so! Well, Samsung are offering people exactly that opportunity, and linking to an Olympics-related Promo.We’ve featured the Tocco a number of times on IntoMobile, and it’s a touch-driven, multimedia monster of a device – a…