You know that things are getting hot in the touchscreen industry when Japanese giant Sony is showing off a multitouch prototype LCD display that beats the iPhone’s capabilities.
tech.co.uk reports on having had a chance to see Sony’s latest touchscreen display prototype — it handles five inputs at a time, which is two more than Apple iPhone can handle.
According to tech.co.uk, using the multitouch screen using three fingers was much easier than using one or two (like you would with your iPhone).
Sony’s new LCD measures 3.5 inches in diagonal with a 640 x 480 screen resolution and has optical sensors embedded in the screen. If Sony Ericsson was to use it, it could surely be a worthy competitor to Apple’s iPhone.
Could mobile phone displays be one day as simple to use as this multitouch touchless sensor screen demonstration?
Written by dennis on December 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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According to www.dialaphone.co.uk the popularity of iPhone in Europe has been quashed by it’s main rival-LG Viewty. If the official sales figures are to be compared Apple is unlikely to bit it’s competitor which has sold 310,000 LG Viewty handsets since it’s launch 5 weeks ago. The O2 official reports are saying that only Ă¢ââÂŹĂ
âtens of thousandsĂ¢ââÂŹĂ of iPhones were sold in the UK-Europe’s biggest market.
As www.dialaphone.co.uk reports Apple has blocked the iPhone sales figures from being reported by Gfk, the UK research agency. Gfk collect EPOS (Electronic point of sale) data from all the major UK mobile phone retailers, then produces reports which are commercially available. This is supposed to be the first time that these sort of are being concealed.
Further www.dialaphone.co.uk enumerates the main reasons of LG’s success on the British market. LG’s product is considered to offer more because of having a 5 mega-pixel camera, being able to operate in 3g (HSDPA) networks and having a Xenon flash what allows it’s users to take pictures at night.
Furthermore LG Viewty is available in most of the networks and is cheaper not to mention the fact that it is offered on a shorter contract. Dialaphone claims that Apple might have been more successful with it’s product if it would use a similar sales strategy.
Thanks to: www.dialaphone.co.uk
Written by Krzysztof on December 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Although it’s behind in terms of release and technology, RIM (Research In Motion) is seemingly catching up, and some new perusing has netted two new patents for the BlackBerry line.
An analyst hinted at the release of two new devices, one of which features a touch screen, much like the iPhone. Of the two devices, one is titled ‘Touchscreen 1.0′, which obviously features a touch screen, and it was said that it features a rollaway keyboard featuring the BlackBerry’s usual QWERTY interface.
The other device, Pearl 2.0 (note: these are not official names, just notes on the patents) is noted to be much like the original Pearl, but with a numeric keyboard that can rotate 90 degrees.
“We believe that the next two generation BlackBerry devices will offer some interesting hardware enhancements that are positioned to target two markets; the touch screen and feature phone segment of the handset market,” says Ray Sharma, Analyst at GMP Securities.
Since these are patents, there is no scheduled release date, but signs would likely point to mid-2008 — just in time to take on the 3G iPhone.
Thanks: Globe and Mail
Written by patrick on December 20th, 2007 with no comments.
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Mobile advertising marketplace AdMob released some new stats of the ads its network has shown in November 2007. AdMob only deals with mobile ads, so these stats do give a rough idea of how popular the iPhone is as a mobile internet browsing platform.
In the US iPhone took 0.9% of shown ads inventory marketshare. These are some really good results, considering that there’s not that many iPhones around — yet.
And in the UK iPhone took a respectable 0.3%, despite having been launched there very recently.
At the same time the leaders when it comes to shown ads impressions in each of AdMob’s top markets are: Motorola KRZR in the USA, Nokia 6030 in India, Motorola v360 in South Africa, and Sony Ericsson K800i in the UK. And the iPhone still has a long way catching up to them.
Although, considering how fast the process is going for iPhone’s Safari browser’s global market share, we could just see the iPhone leading these charts soon enough.
Thanks: Mobile Entertainment
Written by dennis on December 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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Mobile advertising marketplace AdMob released some new stats of the ads its network has shown in November 2007. AdMob only deals with mobile ads, so these stats do give a rough idea of how popular the iPhone is as a mobile internet browsing platform.
In the US iPhone took 0.9% of shown ads inventory marketshare. These are some really good results, considering that there’s not that many iPhones around — yet.
And in the UK iPhone took a respectable 0.3%, despite having been launched there very recently.
At the same time the leaders when it comes to shown ads impressions in each of AdMob’s top markets are: Motorola KRZR in the USA, Nokia 6030 in India, Motorola v360 in South Africa, and Sony Ericsson K800i in the UK. And the iPhone still has a long way catching up to them.
Although, considering how fast the process is going for iPhone’s Safari browser’s global market share, we could just see the iPhone leading these charts soon enough.
Thanks: Mobile Entertainment
Written by dennis on December 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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