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Microsoft Courier UI details leak: perfect pen/finger balance?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 5th 2009 No Comments

Microsoft’s Courier project – a dual-display “book” style electronic journal – has been intriguing us since it first leaked back in September, and the latest spillage of UI details courtesy of Gizmodo’s mysterious tipster is doing nothing to temper our interest. The twin screens are both multitouch-capable and respond to fingers and the special stylus, the latter having two side-buttons (the upper one being an “undo” key), an eraser on the other end, and a rotating barrel that flips between different pen modes.

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HTC HD2 video unboxing & first-impressions

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 11 Comments

It’s fair to say that the last time we saw excitement to this degree about a Windows Phone it centered on the HTC Touch HD, and so it seems only right that it’s the company’s successor to that handset, the HTC HD2, that is prompting such interest in 2009. Announced last month after copious rumors, what makes the HD2 special is its 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, HTC Sense UI and 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. It’s taken a while, but the HTC HD2 has finally dropped onto the SlashGear test bench, so check out our first impressions and an unboxing video after the cut.

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ASUS Eee PC T91MT multitouch up for US preorder

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 No Comments

Having gone up for preorder in Europe midway through October, the upcoming multitouch-capable ASUS Eee PC T91MT has now shown up for preorder in the US. Amazon are listing the convertible touchscreen netbook – the T91MT-PU17-WT, to give it its full, catchy title – for $549, though they don’t have any specific release date.

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Motorola MILESTONE (aka GSM DROID) adds multitouch [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 1 Comment

Having heard over the weekend that the GSM version of the Motorola DROID – the Motorola MILESTONE – would be landing in Europe later this month on carrier O2, Mobile-Review’s always-on-the-inside Eldar Murtazin has pushed out a video of the handset in action. As well as swapping the CDMA of the Verizon DROID by Motorola for GSM/UMTS, the new MILESTONE also gains multitouch support in Android 2.0.

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Video demo of multitouch Motorola MILESTONE after the cut

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Ideum create ultra-wide multitouch table [Video]

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 30th 2009 No Comments

We’ve featured Ideum and their multitouch tables before on SlashGear, but the company have been in touch to flaunt their latest development: an ultra-wide touchscreen surface. Billed as “one of the largest contiguous multitouch tables ever developed”, the new table is based on the same optical touch recognition system as their standard MT-50 but has a 100-inch surface and an 86-inch viewable area, and can recognize over 50 different simultaneous touch points.

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Video demo after the cut

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Acer T230H 23-inch multitouch Windows 7 LCD debuts

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 29th 2009 No Comments

Acer has become the latest manufacturer to announce a multitouch-capable LCD monitor suitable for use with Windows 7. The Acer T230H is, at 23-inches, slightly larger than its Dell and HP counterparts, but offers the same Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. It recognizes one- and two-finger gestures, such as pinch-zoom and chiral-rotate, and has VGA, HDMI and DVI inputs.

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Albatron 42-inch multitouch display gets tested [Video]

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Oct 28th 2009 No Comments

If you thought HP and Dell’s Windows 7 compatible multitouch monitors were desk-dominating at 21.5-inches, go away and fetch a cold-compress. Albatron have been working on their latest optical touch display, and it’s a full 42-inch whopper promising 1080p resolution, multitouch and gesture support. mobile+notebook grabbed some hands-on (literally) time with the behemoth.

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Video demo after the cut

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Amazon Kindle for PC app coming in November

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 22nd 2009 3 Comments

In case you missed it, Microsoft announced that Amazon have developed a version of their ebook app for the PC. Kindle for PC will be a free download and, like the iPhone, iPod touch and standalone Kindle ebook readers, allow users to purchase titles from Amazon’s online store.

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Dell SX2210T multitouch LCD gets official in Japan

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 22nd 2009 1 Comment

Dell Japan have officially announced the Dell SX2210T multitouch-capable touchscreen display, first spotted floating around the company’s support pages earlier this week. The SX2210T is a 21.5-inch display running at native 1920 x 1080 resolution, 2-megapixel webcam, 50,000:1 contrast ratio and support for one or two fingered gestures.

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Apple Magic Mouse gets inevitable teardown

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 22nd 2009 No Comments

Apple’s Magic Mouse is impressing us on the desktop, but what sort of evil spirits might be lurking inside? iFixit bravely donned protective eyewear and grabbed the nearest set of screwdrivers in order to strip the multitouch mouse down to its bare boards, in their latest Apple teardown.

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