Tag: multitouch

Neofonie WePad 11.6-inch Android slate

Posted by ts On 22.03.2010

source – engadget.com/ by Joseph L. Flatley

Another day, another Android tablet render. This one, the imaginatively titled WePad, is as ambitious as its name might suggest. (You know, because “we” is plural of “I”? Yeah, it’s a stretch.) Dwarfing the iPad with its 11.6-inch (1366 x 768) display, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, GMA 3150 graphics, webcam, two USB ports, flash card reader, UMTS modem, and a mooted six hours of battery life, we could see ourselves picking one up — provided the price point is decent. But that’s just the beginning! The manufacturer, Neofonie, also has designs on a WePad app store and, if all goes according to plan, this thing’ll sport genuine Google Android and the Android Market. The company also mentions something called the “WeMagazine publishing ecosystem,” the basis of a turn-key operation for getting your own branded device out on the e-reader market, so if you’re looking to get into the biz just hit the source link to begin your adventure. As for us, we’ll wait to see a final product before we jump to any conclusions.

Acer Aspire 1825PT, 1825PTZ Tablet Notebooks

Posted by ts On 19.03.2010

source – netbooked.net/

This has me confused. Word is two new 11.6” Acer Aspire tablet notebook models are due in April, at least in the UK. These models are the 1825PT and 1825PTZ. Both models come with multi-touch capacitive touch screens and Windows 7 Home Premium.

The 1825PTZ has an intel Pentium SU4100 processor, 3GB RAM, 250GB HDD.
The 1825PT has an Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor, 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD.

The only difference I can see compared to the 1820PT and 1820PTZ is that these screens are capacitive instead of resistive.

NewGadgets.de has spotted a few listings in Germany for the 1825P in red and black priced at 599 Euros. Pictures show a stylus though – perhaps just reusing the 1820PT/Z pics.

Source: SaveOnLaptops via Netbook Choice

Hanvon BC10C review

Posted by ts On 18.03.2010

source – alltouchtablet.com/
Hanvon BC10C is pretty slim for a 10 inch tablet

Remember the Hanvon BC10C and the BA10E slate tablets presented at CeBIT a few weeks ago? It seems that Hanvon made real nice progress since then and got a few samples to the press to review them, which JKKmobiledid and here’s what they’ve found out about the BC10C, the model with a 1.3 GHz Celeron M ULV 743 CPU and GMA4500 graphics. If you wonder why no Atom CPU then think about performance and you have your answer. The BA10E is fitted with an Atom CPU, just like the ASUS EEE PC T101MT and it’s not a pleasant view.

The Celeron M CPU gives the BC10C a serious multimedia carriage, like 1080p playback (with a help of an additional chip I suppose) and HDMI output capabilities, smooth everyday operation in apps like Google Maps where frequent zooming is required and overall improved user experience. The downside, as there is one, is battery life, as BC10C managed just 3.5 hours of autonomy in real life scenarios, but mind you this is a pre-production unit so the final version could improve on this field, but I don’t expect wonders.

If you’re already set on the Hanvon BC10C wait a sec till I tell you about price: 877$, not too pocket friendly, but if it’s as good as in the video below I believe it is worth the money and maybe in the future this sum will be lowered if production ramps up in numbers.

see the whole review with video at alltouchtablet.com

Wacom Cintiq 21UX

Posted by ts On 15.03.2010

source – engadget.com/ by Paul Miller

It’s almost too much to take in all at once. Sure, the $1,999 Cintiq 21UX pen display is priced out of reach for most of us mere mortals who “don’t draw good,” but the pure lustworthiness of this unit sure makes us try to forget that inconvenient fact. The expanded movability of Wacom’s latest is commendable, the pen input is naturally great, the screen is beautiful, and even those new rear-mounted touchpads seem helpful. It would take someone much more familiar with professional draw-ist-ing to really speak to the more specific merits of the 21UX, but from a mere standpoint of inspiring irrational desire in our hearts, Wacom seems to have done a pretty good job this time out.

Wacom Cintiq 21UX hands-on

check out engadget.com/ for the video hands-on

Lenovo releases L2261, L2361p, L2461x 1080p LCD monitors, one with multitouch

Posted by ts On 12.03.2010


source – thinkpads.com/ by John Hobbes

Lenovo recently announced three new LCD monitors, all with 1080p resolution and ranging from 21.5 to 23.6 inches. The high end 23.6-inch model is also equipped with a multitouch screen and a design that would fit right in your home theater.

Lenovo L2261 Wide


At the bottom of the excitement scale is the L2261 Wide 21.5-inch LCD. While not much to look at compared to the other ones, the L2261 does have a pretty high resolution for its size: 1920×1080 in a sub-22 inch panel. It will hook up to most notebooks and desktops just fine with VGA and DVI inputs, but a cheap 1080p LCD is just screaming for HDMI. Also notably absent is the ability to rotate the display to a portrait orientation.

Lenovo L2361p Wide


Stepping up to the L2361p Wide will get you 23-inches, a stylish design, HDMI input and a TV-like stand. This is a pretty strong shift in design for Lenovo’s monitors, clearly taking an aim for the consumer LCDs sold by competitors like Hewlett Packard. You also get integrated speakers & mic, 3 USB 2.0 ports and a 0.3MP webcam. To top off the chique design, the standard push buttons for power, monitor settings, etc have been replaced with slick capacitive touch buttons.

Lenovo L2461x Wide with multitouch

The big, bad L2461x Wide gets the largest of the displays at 23.6-inches and is also the only one with multitouch capabilities. You get speakers, mic, USB ports and webcam on the L2461x, but the USB ports now total 4 and the webcam is a respectable 2.0MP. The slick capacitive touch buttons are also here, but you now have certain “Windows shortcuts” featured as well. Brightness takes a step up to 300 nits and the panel is purported to have “120Hz MEMC technology (Motion Estimation,Motion Compensation).”

Pricing & Availability

Unfortunately we don’t have any pricing or availability information on the L2261 or L2361p, but the touchscreen L2461x is listed at two vendors. The price is a not too shabby $549-580, but availability is “special order” or “call only” and you shouldn’t get your hopes of receiving one any time soon from them. There is also a listing on Lenovo’s Netherlands website with a €835 price tag, which converts to about $1145 USD.

Don’t forget the Green

As with most of Lenovo’s products these days, these new monitors are all Energy Star 5.0, WEEE and RoHS certified. This means they will be power efficient, easily recyclable and do not contain harmful substances like mercury or PBBs. You can also expect the packaging to be minimally wasteful and mostly recyclable. Hopefully they will include the nifty monitor packaging/bag announced last October.

Hit the jump to get the full tech specs on each of these monitors (in the image gallery)

JooJoo with new interface, and new color

Posted by ts On 11.03.2010

source – engadget.com By Nilay Patel

The JooJoo tablet’s launch date might have been pushed back a month while Fusion Garage sorts out issues with the capacitive touchscreen, but it looks like the extra time has given the company a chance to tweak the interface and add in some features. Obviously the most noticable change is the revised homescreen, which has gone from line art on a garish solid color background to a nicely rendered icon grid over a high-res customizable wallpaper, but Fusion Garage has also ditched the confusing pinch-to-go-back gesture and replaced it with a vertical swipe that brings down a status bar containing the home button, status indicators, browser navigation controls, and a combination address bar / search field. Scroll behavior has been revised as well, with two separate behaviors: a two-finger scroll that works like a scroll wheel, and a single finger “pan” that works like a mouse arrow. That’s so you can move around sites like Google Maps, which have different interface elements mapped to each control — CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan pointed out to us that devices like the iPhone avoid the issue by using dedicated apps, but Fusion Garage wants to deliver the “full web experience.” It’s an interesting solution and a clever spin on things, but we’re waiting to try it out for real before we pass any judgment.

What else? The text-entry situation has been improved: there’s now both a smaller keyboard designed for one-handed operation that can be moved around the screen so it doesn’t obscure content, and a full-screen multitouch keyboard that does chording so it recognizes more than one key at a time. There’s no auto-correction or prediction, though. Flash is now fully working, and YouTube videos can either be played back using Flash or the custom H.264 HD breakout player we’ve already seen; that player supports a range of codecs and can also be used to play videos stored on a USB thumb drive. And finally, and perhaps most oddly, the JooJoo has changed colors. Instead of black, the back casing is now a “champagne” color, a picture of which you can see below — Chandra told us that unhappy preorder customers can just have their $499 refunded if they desperately wanted black instead. All we desperately want to do is get a review unit and tell you what the JooJoo is actually like to use — if all of these promises hold up, it could be very intriguing indeed.

JooJoo revamps interface ahead of launch, adds local video playback

2nd Hand 7″ Eee PC Tablet Mod

Posted by ts On 10.03.2010

source – netbooked.net

The ASUS Eee PC 701 is back yet again with yet another slate tablet mod purposely made for those occasions where the modder wanted to verify actor roles at IMBD in front of the TV. He bought a used Eee PC 701 and touchscreen kit off of Ebay and proceeded to hack the innards with details that go over my head. He is going the Linux route and I’d be pretty interested to see that how goes with a touch screen.

Just a couple of pictures for now but I’m hoping he’ll add some more stuff to see.

Source: Eee User Forums and MikeJose

Lenovo Says “No” to Slate PCs following launch of X201

Posted by ts On 08.03.2010

source –thinkpads.com by John Hobbes

lenovo_thinkpad_x200_tablet_outdoor_screen_slate-display

Lenovo recently discussed with CNET that their experience shows businesses and even many private customers don’t want a slate only PC with no physical keyboard. The informal interview coincides with the recent launch of their ThinkPad X201 Tablet convertible notebook and is certainly fueled by the attention on Apple’s slick new iPad.

Lenovo has shown enterprise customers mock-ups of slate devices that would be business-appropriate, but no one was interested due to the lack of physical keyboard. They even went as far as to ask high school kids:

Majapuro said Lenovo even got feedback from high school kids. “These were 14-year-old kids, who, I thought, would be most willing to try a virtual keyboard but they said no, we want the physical (built-in) keyboard.”

Although, somehow I doubt they asked high school kids if they wanted a super slim, stylish device that “has an App for everything” and will automatically elevate you to cult status, free with every purchase.

You can have a convertible netbook, a dual-screened giant workstation, a true convertible tablet and even a 14-15 inch multitouch laptop, but no slate (from Lenovo) for you.

Source: [CNET]

Acer frameless laptop touchscreen keyboard

Posted by ts On 08.03.2010

source – engadget.com By Thomas Ricker

Would you believe that Acer is working on a frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard? As far-fetched as the idea might be, it’s certainly plausible, expected even. The idea, as rumored by DigiTimes, involves doing away with the display’s frame by printing colors directly onto the back of the display’s reinforced glass substrate from Corning (a la Gorilla Glass presumably). Coupled with a touchscreen keyboard, the rumored device should be impossibly thin by traditional laptop comparisons. Keep in mind that we’ve already seen this Frame Zero concept pictured above from Fujitsu and Acer’s arch-rival ASUS has been showing off its dual-display laptop prototype with touchscreen keyboard for months. Even the OLPC XO-3 plans to eschew the clickity keyboard in favor of a touchscreen version. And anyone who has ever seen a scifi movie knows that tactile keyboards and display bezels have no role to play in our computing future anyway, so we might as well get things started now — or in the second half of 2010 according to DigiTimes‘ sources.

Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 flaws

Posted by ts On 08.03.2010

source – engadget.com By Darren Murph

There’s no question that Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 is a niche device; much like Sony’s VAIO P, there’s just not a lot of demand for an expensive clamshell with an extremely high resolution and an exceptionally cramped keyboard. That said, there’s a curious seduction surrounding this thing, and critics over at Pocketables seemed to agree. After spending some long days (and nights, don’tcha know?) with the Japanese version of this here device, they came away with a huge mixed bag of emotions. On one hand, the snappy performance and excellent portability made it difficult to put down, but the downright dreadful 2 – 2.5 hours of battery life more or less forced them to. There’s also more gentle gripes about the screen color, the “toy-like” build quality and “useless multitouch.” For us, that’s probably one flaw too many to accept, but the forgiving among us should definitely check out the full skinny before making a final call.

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