touchscreens
Nokia E73 Mode review
Some two years after its release, there are still plenty of people who’ll swear up and down that the E71 is the finest phone Nokia has ever produced — and for good reason. As a platform, S60 was the product of a simpler time when the smartphone market was dominated not by touchscreens, but by numeric keypads, and the E71 was arguably the last of a string of bona fide successes that Nokia enjoyed in the platform’s heyday alongside pioneering handsets like the N82 and N95 .
Quanta and 3M’s DST touchscreens like styli and fingers too
Spend a few days with a capacitive touch device and moving back to resistive can feel a bit…
Hitachi working on cheaper, higher quality IPS touchscreens for cellphones
In case you haven’t heard, IPS panels are making inroads into the lucrative mobile market this year, and Hitachi’s been working behind the scenes on something that should keep that momentum going. In the mainstream, touchscreen IPS displays are currently only available on Apple’s iPad (and expected to show up in its next-gen iPhone ), but should Hitachi’s new production technique pan out, we might be seeing this screen tech in much more affordable devices as well. The company has fiddled with the arrangement of the touchscreen elements inside the panel, which it argues has made them cheaper and easier to produce and replace
TomTom slips out XL 350, XXL 550 nav units for the US
Intrigued by those XL IQ Routes edition 2 navigation units TomTom rolled out for Europe back in March?
Switched On: Revamps in Motion
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On , a column about consumer technology.
Nexus One complaints mount, no firmware update in sight
We’ve had a Nexus One in daily use for a couple months now with relatively little drama, but Google’s official support forums for the so-called superphone appear to be piling up a good head of steam on a handful of issues troubling owners. Perhaps the highest profile among them is the 3G signal strength issue — a problem that predates the Nexus One’s first and only firmware update — but users are complaining about everything from unresponsive touchscreens, to failed text messages, to problems with the ambient light sensor, and there are enough “me too” responses in the support threads to warrant some serious attention. We know Google hasn’t been sitting on its hands behind the scenes, so this is probably more of a timing issue than anything else — could it be that they’re waiting for Flash 10.1 before pushing the next release?
