Posts Tagged "Multi-touch"

Apple Gets Official with January 27th Event

Posted by Editor on Jan 18, 2010 in Apple, Tablets

Believe it or not, all of the reporting we’ve been doing about Apple’s January 27th press event in San Francisco to purportedly unveil the tablet device has been based on rumor. That’s changed today as Apple has now officially confirmed the event at the Yerba Buena center to “come see our latest creation.” As first reported by Apple Insider’s tablet invitation, it looks like this:

Apple Readying Touchscreen iMacs

Posted by Editor on Jan 18, 2010 in Apple, Tablets

PCWorld brings this report of the highly successful multitouch technology coming to more than the iPhone, iTouch and tablet. So perhaps the Tablet won’t be the only cool thing unveiled in San Francisco on January 27th. Could this be Steve’s “one more thing?”

If you’re tired of hearing about the mythical Apple tablet, then you’ll be happy to hear a new rumor has popped up claiming Apple will launch a 22-inch touchscreen iMac later this year. The computer will be produced by Taiwan-based manufacturer Quanta, with the screens being produced by Sintek Photronic, according to DigiTimes based on an account from the Chinese language newspaper China Times.

Apple: Reach Out and Touch Me

A touchscreen iMac wouldn’t be terribly surprising, since touch-based features and devices are becoming an increasing part of Apple’s product lineup. The company has had a runaway success with the iPhoneand iPod Touch, multitouch trackpads in MacBookswere introduced in 2008, and Apple recently brought out the touch-based Magic Mouse. If the rumors are correct, Apple may also be introducing a 10-inchtouchscreen multimedia device at the end of this month.

For more details and some analysis of what a touchscreen iMac might look like, head over to the rest of the story at PCWorld.

Asus Brings Tasty eBook Reader to Market

Posted by Editor on Jan 18, 2010 in Tablets

Engadget points out this compact, WiMax-enabled e-book charmer from Asus:

ASUS is suddenly all chatty with its plans to enter the e-reader market in 2010. Just yesterday we got word of a 6-inch color (claimed to be OLED by InGear) e-reader from ASUS by the name of DR-570 headed to retail before the year is through. Now we’ve got details of a second ASUS e-reader, dubbed the DR-950 that should arrive sooner. This time we’re looking at a 9-inch Sipix panel with 1,024 x 768 pixel resolution pushing 16-levels of gray just like the Jinke reader unveiled at CES. The touchscreen DR-950 features text-to-speech (based on Svox engine supporting 26 languages), a web browser that works in portrait or landscape modes, a virtual keyboard and handwriting input, a RSS reader, and dictionary (with expandable database) with real-time translation.

Spec-wise, the 222 x 161 x 9-mm / 370-gram reader packs WiFi and HSPA (WiMax is optional) data radios, 3.5-mm headphone jack and stereo speakers, with 4GB of internal memory and SD Card expansion. Supported formats include PDF, TXT, Audible, MP3, and unprotected ePub. Not bad ASUS, not bad. Now let’s see some content partners, eh?

Head over to Engadget for more pictures.

TUAW- iPhone with Touch-Sensitive Case on the way

Posted by Editor on Jan 14, 2010 in iPhone, Reviews, Rumors

TUAW’s Mike Schraam put out a story today with some great links regarding the rumored iPhone 4G model that’s sure to be on the way once the dust from all this tablet stuff settles.

Bloomberg is the latest outlet to come up with some rumors about the possible new iPhone model coming this year (the iPhone, not the tablet, although doesn’t it seem like the flood of tablet rumors has encouraged all kinds of Apple speculation lately?). They say that the new handset will include a 5 megapixel camera to match Google’s Nexus One, and will also include a touch-sensitive casing, working similarly to the Magic Mouse. That one just seems strange — what would you gesture on the back of the iPhone while you’re using it?

Apple Tablet iPhone On Steroids

Posted by Editor on Jan 13, 2010 in Apple, Tablets

Boy Genius Report gives out a few tidbits, calling the Apple Tablet an iPhone on Steroids:

The tablet’s multi-touch gestures are “out of control.”
It’s powered by an incredibly fast ARM CPU
It runs on the iPhone kernel.
The internal model number is K48AP.
There hasn’t been an updated iPhone OS build because there’s too much tablet-related code/references in the OS and Apple obviously didn’t want that to leak. Oops.
The tablet is basically an “iPhone on steroids.”