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NOOK Simple Touch updated: Faster, Longer, Cheaper

Chris Davies, Nov 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

Barnes & Noble hasn't just got a new NOOK Tablet for us: the bookseller also has an updated version of the NOOK Simple Touch, now priced at just $99. A faster E Ink display takes pride of place, something B&N reckons takes just 450ms for each page-turn versus the Kindle's 600ms. You'll be reading for longer periods, too, thanks to battery improvements. Read The Full Story

Panasonic LUMIX GX1 official: 16MP, Full HD, 0.09s autofocus

Chris Davies, Nov 7th 2011 Discuss [5]

Panasonic‘s second camera of the day doesn’t record 3D like the LUMIX DMC-3D1, but the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GX1 is the interchangeable lens camera many keen photographers have been waiting for. Packing a 16.01-megapixel Live MOS sensor and Panasonic’s Venus Engine, a 3-inch touchscreen, 1920 x 1080 60i HD AVCHD video recording and 0.09 second autofocus, the LUMIX GX1 works with the existing range of Micro Four Thirds lenses and will go on sale in mid-December.

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BlackBerry Curve 9380 due on TELUS by holidays

Chris Davies, Nov 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

The BlackBerry Curve 9380 has shown up in the wild again, this time promised on Canadian CDMA carrier TELUS with a release in time for the holidays. RIM teased the smartphone itself last month, revealing a 3.2-inch 480 x 360 display - on what TELUS describes as the "first all touch Curve" RIM has made in the brochure MobileSyrup spotted - while previous leaks have indicated the device will have an 800MHz processor. Read The Full Story

T-Mobile BlackBerry Torch 9810 priced for November 7 launch

Chris Davies, Nov 2nd 2011 Discuss [2]

T-Mobile USA has announced pricing and availability for the BlackBerry Torch 9810, the BlackBerry 7 smartphone that pairs both a sizable touchscreen and a slide-out physical keyboard. Set to hit the carrier's 3G network on November 7, the T-Mobile Torch 9810 will be priced at $249.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Read The Full Story

AUO brings transparent displays to vending machines [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week in Yokohama the folks at AUO are showing off more than one transparent AMOLED display, the largest of which appears to be fully functional on a full-sized vending machine. What you'll see below is a machine that'll give you a bottle of water at the same time as it displays a jungle, complete with a giraffe head, monkeys, and a chicken, all of them playing for your entertainment. Not only this, the entire 65-inch display is entirely touch sensitive, so you can order your drink by simply tapping. Read The Full Story

Lenovo C325 all-in-one PC packs multitouch

Chris Davies, Oct 24th 2011 Discuss [1]

Lenovo has outed its latest all-in-one PC, the Lenovo C325, offering a 20-inch 1600 x 900 display, AMD E450 processor and multitouch support. Priced from $699, the C325 packs AMD Radeon HD 6320 graphics along with up to 8GB of DDR3 memory and up to 1TB of storage, along with a DVD burner and SDXC memory card slot. Read The Full Story

OCOSMOS OSC9 tablet hits US by Dec with Smart remote

Chris Davies, Oct 20th 2011 Discuss [3]

OCOSMOS' OSC9 tablet PC has gone up for pre-order in the US, with the 10.1-inch slate - billed as being the thinnest Windows 7 tablet around - expected to begin shipping at the end of November. Priced at $649 from Dynamism, the OSC9 runs a 1.5GHz Oak Trail Atom Z670 processor, 2GB of RAM and offers a choice of 16GB or 32GB of flash storage, all fronted by a 1280 x 800 10.1-inch display. It also supports an optional "Smart O-Bar" screen-toting remote. Read The Full Story

OmniTouch reminds us of the science fiction future of all things touchscreen [Video]

Chris Burns, Oct 19th 2011 Discuss [2]

It's time again to talk about touchscreens on every surface imaginable, this time through Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University. These groups have brought forth a solution for the age-old first-world problem of how a person who wants dial their phone using only the surface of their hand might do so. The solution is this: OmniTouch, a system that although currently requires the user to wear an obtrusive shoulder-mounted monstrosity to project and collect interfaces and the ways they interact with them, will sometime be as simple as a box of playing-cards-sized device which will work with the user to turn any surface into a touchscreen. Read The Full Story

Kobo Vox takes on Kindle Fire with sub-$200 tag

Chris Davies, Oct 19th 2011 Discuss [6]

Ereader firm Kobo has announced the Kobo Vox, the company's latest Android-based ereader. Previewed last month with a premature store listing, the Vox features a 7-inch 1024 x 600 display, 800MHz Freescale iMX51 processor, 8GB of internal storage and 512MB of RAM, and runs a reskinned version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, all for under $200. Read The Full Story

Gigaset SL910A touchscreen DECT phone hands-on

Chris Davies, Oct 19th 2011 Discuss [2]

Does your landline phone need a touchscreen? German DECT phone manufacturer Gigaset reckons so, and the SL910A is the end result: a 3.2-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen in a digital cordless phone. Packing Bluetooth, Outlook sync, text messaging and PIM functionality, along with an integrated digital answerphone, the Gigaset SL910A borrows plenty from what we'd expect from a modern cellphone. We grabbed some hands-on playtime to see if it's really the next generation of landlines or simply overkill. Read The Full Story

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Motorola MOTOACTV hands-on

Chris Davies, Oct 18th 2011 Discuss [5]

Motorola’s DROID RAZR wasn’t the only new Android device the company announced today; there’s the MOTOACTV packing Google’s platform too. It’s a brave move, launching a smart-watch, given the reception to the existing products that have attempted the market, and we’re not entirely convinced that the MOTOACTV will clinch things for Motorola, either. Check out our hands-on first-impressions after the cut.

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Microsoft PocketTouch research encourages surreptitious stroking

Chris Davies, Oct 18th 2011 Discuss [1]

Microsoft could one day encourage Windows Phone owners to stroke their hardware more discretely, if a Microsoft Research project called PocketTouch spawns a commercial system. Intended to allow smartphone users to control their devices without removing them from a pocket or bag, PocketTouch uses a custom capacitive touch sensor that can track gestures through fabric: by coupling it with Microsoft's existing Ink digital handwriting recognition system, and a range of preset movements, incoming calls can be quietly responded to with SMS messages and PMP functionality controlled. Read The Full Story