Simple as can be. And quite sexy too. Mac Funamizu’s Nanokia smartphone concept is based on E Ink display technology. Makes sense as E Ink’s electronic paper display consumes very little power, especially when the content is not changing. So the keyboard and keypad would consume close to zero power.
Samsung Haptic 2 Specifications
Display: 3.2″ Touch TFT LCD
Camera: 5MP with Flash, Image Stabilization, Macro Mode, Autofocus, Timer
Internal Memory: 4GB (W550, W5500), 16GB (W555)
Connectivity: DMB, Bluetooth 2.0, Mobile Banking
Availability: September 27, 2008
Price: About KRW 70,000 (W550, W5500) and KRW 80,000 (W555)
Samsung’s original Haptic smartphone was unveiled to the world back in March and sold for KRW [...]
RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones have always come with a physical QWERTY keyboard. CrackBerry addicts love typing away at the keyboard. The keyboard is one of the main distinctions between it and Apple’s iPhone, which eschews such crude old-school technology for the latest marvel in technology: touch. With a large TFT LCD display coupled with touch technology, [...]
Albatron 22″ Multitouch LCD
Pixel Format: 1680 x 1050
Price: 120% of regular LCD
Albatron’s 22″ multitouch LCD monitor was showcased during Computex 2008 and was working on Windows Vista. The folks over at TGDaily had a blast playing around with Google Earth. According to Robert Doncevski, Sales Director at Albatron, size is not a limit. For instance, [...]
There were a lot of developments in displays that were showcased during SID 2008. One of the best stuff was related to OLEDs, lower power consumption, thin profiles and LED backlights generating unheard of contrast ratios. I’ve posted about just a few of them. Here they all are for your convenience:
Epson Electronic Paper Display at [...]
LG Display 4.3″ WVGA Multitouch LCD
Size: 4.3″
Pixel Format: 800 x 480
Pixel Density: 217.1ppi
Color: 16.7M (8 bit)
Brightness: 420 cd/m2
Contrast Ratio: 500:1
Viewing Angle: 60/50/70/70 (U/D/L/R, CR>10:1)
LCD Technology: TN
Touch: Yes, Multitouch
LG Display showcased many LCD innovations including this 4.3″ multitouch LCD sporting a pixel format of 800 x 480. I am scratching my head and wondering if this [...]
Multitouch is here to stay. Now I know. Mass adoption in the millions started with Apple’s iPhone. Now, we can expect a day when we can play games such as Missile Command with all ten of our fingers multitouching a massive 8 foot by 4 foot wall to counter the onslaught of air-to-surface missiles with [...]
In the March 2008 edition of the Touch Panel newsletter from Veritas et Visus, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Mark Fihn wrote an interesting piece on the rumor regarding a MacBook with a transparent multitouch display.
Here are a few choice paragraphs in the article titled “Rumors of transparency…”
About two years ago, a friend from Taiwan passed on [...]
This is old news, but once in a while I enjoy going back to videos such as this one. TED is held in Monterey, California and about 1000 people get to listen to some remarkable ideas. One idea is multi-touch. Apple has popularized an implementation of multi-touch with the iPhone and now on its MacBook [...]
Facts: Microsoft began work in 2001 and after 6 years of the company’s hardware divisions working with Microsoft Research (MSR), Steve Ballmer announced a new computing interface based on multi-touch technology at the D: All Things Digital conference: Surface Computing. The unit pictured above uses a Digital Light Processing (DLP) projection system. The display is [...]