So far this year, it’s hard to read a tech blog or even mainstream media without hearing rumors about Apple’s rumored iSlate
Don’t get me wrong, I thing that touch computing holds a lot of promise. It’s just that there are still a lot of kinks to work out in the user experience of creating interfaces, shortcuts and gestures that feel natural and users glom onto. Microsoft is the only company out there currently with a touch-friendly operating system in Windows 7, though that may change shortly.
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Engadget’s newly launched redesign caught my eye with a quick little sidebar infographic that shows titled ‘Most Commented.’ It shows the stories with the most comments in the last 24 hours in a simple bar chart.
The graphic doesn’t take up any more room than a boring, standard most commented widget, yet it’s a novel use of the site’s existing data. The graphic also provides tons of context using both size and color to draw your eye toward the most popular stories. Nice work, guys.
If the rumors are true, HTC is working on a new flagship phone called the Dragon. The device will feature an 800 x 600 resolution 4.3-inch touchscreen with Qualcomm’s new Snapgradon 1 GHz processor for added bite.
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A video of the Rachel UI that’s being created by Sony Ericsson to smooth out Android’s rough edges is making waves today. To date most Android UIs are still clunky and awkward, making this a welcome glimpse of what’s to come from Sony Ericsson’s future lineup.
Most of the video features the music and video player interfaces with a quick peek at the home screen and contact management. It has all kinds of crazy transitions that the performance-minded might want to turn off, but it’s still pretty slick.
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The good news is that Microsoft/ Danger have restored sidekick users’ lost data, but the bad news is that they did it in terribly poor form. Rather than apologize to users and T-Mobile for the hassle and take responsibility for their actions, Microsoft’s press release passes the buck to Danger, Inc.
The only problem is that Microsoft bought Danger and is therefore trying to shift blame to one of its own divisions. That just adds insult to injury for users and their business partner, T-Mobile, who has been taking the brunt of angry customers.
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Acer just demoed its Liquid smartphone featuring Android 1.6 (Donut) and a lightning fast processor. The specs say the processor comes in at 768MHz, but it might be tuned to run as fast as 1Ghz, making it the fastest Android smartphone to date.
It’s basically a finely tuned Acer A1 that’s running Google’s Android mobile OS, but it also has a simplified form factor. It also has an 800 x 480 WVGA capacitive touchscreen for plenty of viewing area.
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Acer couldn’t make the Q3 launch date as promised, but the company is getting serious about shipping its Android-based netbook device. Acer has opened up pre-orders on Amazon for a dual-boot Aspire One D250 running Android and XP.
The dual-boot could be due to the fact that the Android experience isn’t stable on the netbook or even great. It’s interesting that they’re pushing these pre-orders now, when Windows 7 is about to launch and Chrome OS won’t be far behind.
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