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Touchscreens About To Get Even Thinner

Samia Perkins, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [2]

That touchscreen on your phone or tablet is about to get even thinner, thanks to a new substrate developed by AGC. The soda-lime glass measures just 0.28 mm, 15% thinner than the thinnest glass currently available (0.33 mm). It is also lighter, by 15%. The new glass is planned to enter mass production later this month. Read The Full Story

Lenovo ThinkPad X220 and X220T Tablet on sale, plus Edge E220s

Chris Davies, Apr 19th 2011 Discuss [4]

Lenovo's ThinkPad X220 and X220T Tablet have gone up for sale, offering up to 24hrs of battery life and Intel Core i3 and i5 processors. Announced back in March, the notebooks are priced from $849 for the X220 and from $1,249 for the X220T. Both have 12.5-inch 1366 x 768 displays, with the X220T's recognizing multitouch gestures. Read The Full Story

Casio TRYX hits Best Buy in bendy white

Chris Davies, Apr 18th 2011 Discuss [1]

Casio's distinctive TRYX digital camera, announced back at CES 2011, has been on sale in black at Amazon for a short while now, but if you demand that your gadgets match your Stormtrooper costume then you need to head down to Best Buy today. The retailer has clinched the exclusive on the white TRYX, which will go on sale - alongside its black sibling - for $249.99 in stores today. Read The Full Story

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SlashGear 101: What is the Sony NGP?

Chris Davies, Apr 16th 2011 Discuss [14]

Hard to imagine, but the Sony PSP is almost seven years old. Announced back in May 2004, Sony’s gaming handheld was described as the “Walkman of the 21st Century” and proceeded to spawn several generations of hardware in the fight to take on Nintendo’s DS. Now, the PSP is giving way to the Sony NGP, the Next Generation Portable. Read on as SlashGear 101 takes you through everything you need to know.

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Ford SYNC hits Europe in 2012 Focus

Chris Davies, Apr 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

A car company might not be what you'd expect to find at IFA 2011, but Ford is here to talk about its "Drive Smart" push to include SYNC in future vehicles. Already in 3m Fords on US roads, Ford is now bringing SYNC to Europe - first with the 2012 Ford Focus - with the expectation that it will be in 2m models by 2015. As in the US system, Ford SYNC supports voice control, text-to-speech for incoming SMS messages, WiFi hotspot functionality and Michelin Guide restaurant suggestions. Read The Full Story

MultiTouch Gestures and MicroGestures Coming from Apple

Samia Perkins, Apr 12th 2011 Discuss [5]

Apple has been hard at work developing new multitouch gestures, and also making gestures more intuitive, according to multitouch related patents from Apple recently published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, and uncovered by PatentlyApple. The gestures have interesting names: Star, Crossbar, Ohm, Scoop and more. Read The Full Story

HTC Flyer gets dated for European release

Chris Davies, Apr 12th 2011 Discuss [1]

HTC chief Florian Seiche has confirmed that the company's 7-inch tablet, the HTC Flyer, will go on sale in Europe on May 9 2011. The slate, announced at MWC 2011 last February, has already shown up for pre-order at several retailers, with the SIM-free price set at £599.99. Read The Full Story

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Nokia E6 hands-on [Video]

Chris Davies, Apr 12th 2011 Discuss [3]

Nokia has set itself quite the challenge with the E6, taking on the legacy of much-loved QWERTY smartphones like the E71 and E72. First impressions, though, are very positive. The 326ppi touchscreen is pixel-dense and responsive, neatly positioned to be stabbed with a thumb when holding the E6 in one hand. Meanwhile the physical keyboard delivers all the tactile feedback you’d hope for.

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LG Display outs 47″ transparent IPS LCD to take on Samsung [video]

Chris Davies, Apr 11th 2011 Discuss [2]

The cat and mouse race between Samsung and LG continues, with LG Display looking to best Samsung's 22-inch transparent LCD from just a couple of weeks back with a transparent screen of its own. The company is showing off a huge 47-inch IPS LCD panel which as well as being transparent is capable of Full HD resolution. Read The Full Story

EraThink EraPalm5 puts Windows into slider-PSP form-factor

Chris Davies, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [1]

It may look a little like a PSP, but EraThink's EraPalm5 is actually another tiny Windows PC hoping to find its way into your jacket pocket. Spotted by Newpad at the China Consumer Electronics Fair, the slider has a 5-inch 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen which pops up to reveal a tiny QWERTY keyboard, a D-pad and gaming-style face buttons, along with an HDMI output for up to 1080p HD video. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry Torch 2 caught in wild: 1.2GHz and VGA display

Chris Davies, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [4]

The BlackBerry leaks keep on coming, with the latest to break cover being the BlackBerry Torch 2. An update to the original slider, the Torch 2 looks ostensibly the same from the outside, says BGR, but on the inside there's a higher-resolution 640 x 480 display and a speedy 1.2GHz processor running BlackBerry OS 6.1. Read The Full Story

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Is Dual-Touch the Future of Phones and Tablets?

Chris Davies, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [9]

If one touchscreen is good, how great must two be? Tapping into the same part of the brain that screams how geekily-cool Star Trek tablet props are, the allure of a double-display smartphone or computer isn’t new, but neither has it been done right. That’s not stopped various new attempts, however, Acer’s twin-14-inch Iconia Touchbook notebook for one, or the imminent Sprint Kyocera Echo phone for another. Double-vision each may offer, but the manufacturers responsible are still showing serious myopia in how they’re delivering on the twin-touch dream.