Posts Tagged "Touchscreen"
Kindle for iPhone – Gives Books and The Real Kindle a Run For Their Money
As we move into the Apple Tablet era I wanted to test drive what the experience might be like so I downloaded the Amazon Kindle for iPhone Reader [FREE AppStore] from the iTunes Store. Kindle for iPhone is meant as a standalone or companion to an Amazon Kindle eBook reader. You can shop for books online using your Amazon.com account, purchase, download and read all in this clever little application.
Kindle for iPhone is a very light download so you’ll be up and running in no time, you just need to enter your Amazon.com account details. Then you are taken into a Safari browser session to pick out books. Couple of nice features, you can download decent sized free samples of any book you’re interested in and if you have a Kindle it will automatically sync up so you have one copy on the Kindle and one for the iPhone. I chose a cookbook about making Japanese food.
Read More...HarperCollins in Talks With Apple for Enhanced Ebooks
According to the Wall Street Journal, leading publisher HarperCollins is in talks with Apple over enhanced ebooks for its tablet.
HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc.
HarperCollins is expected to set the prices of the e-books, which would have added features, with Apple taking a percentage of sales. Details haven’t been ironed out. More after the jump.
Read More...Apple Gets Official with January 27th Event
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:
Asus Brings Tasty eBook Reader to Market
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.
Read More...New Patent Points to Stylus for Tablet
MacRumors points out a new patent recently filed by Apple regarding the use of a stylus for input on a touch screen.
Given Steve Jobs’ distaste for styluses, it comes as a surprise that Apple has recently applied for a patent application exploring the use of a stylus for the capacitive touch sensors found on the iPhone. Unlike the recently revived Newton patent, this new patent was actually filed with today’s technology in mind.
We had our an engineer friend look this over and it’s kind of an interesting peek into what might be a feature of the upcoming Apple Tablet. What this patent essentially covers is the use of a special stylus tip that would permit highly accurate input on a screen primarily designed for touch use.
Read More...TUAW- iPhone with Touch-Sensitive Case on the way
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.
Read More...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 a Boon for Ex-Pats and Travelers
Apple’s tablet is expected to help resuscitate the publishing world by offering downloadable e-book versions of popular printed magazines, periodicals and newspapers through the iTunes Store. Perhaps this doesn’t seem all that exciting to the average American, but it could be a boon to travelers and ex-pats living abroad.
Read More...Apple Tablet Will Live or Die by Its Screen
Apple’s upcoming tablet has been often pitched as an ebook reader, which has led some analysts to speculate whether the device will feature an e-ink display like the Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook. Others think it will use the same LCD technology the iPhone and iPod Touch employ. Or perhaps it will feature an OLED screen like the Microsoft Zune HD and Google Nexus One. Speculation has been fueled by rumors that developers cannot get supplies due to Apple’s cornering of the market for 10.1-inch LCD and OLED displays in Asia. Whatever display technology Apple chooses will make a massive difference to the tablet’s success. Let’s take a look at the various display possibilities.
Read More...Aluminum-clad Apple Tablet Aimed at Pro Users?
Reuters has an unsourced story purporting to be from Taiwanese suppliers who claim to be involved in shipping components for Apple’s inevitable tablet. This is of particular interest:
Read More...Suppliers for Apple Inc’s new tablet computer have begun shipping touchscreen panels and will start delivering aluminum casings for it next month, sources said, implying a second-quarter product launch.
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