The clatter of ergonomic keyboards is already bearing fruit, just two months after the Ubuntu developer community was let loose on the SDK for the newly touch – enabled OS. Canonical’s Michael Hall has posted an update on his personal blog detailing progress with some core apps , such as Calendar and Weather, as as well the broader effort to give mobile Ubuntu a sense of personality. . . . → Read More: Early apps for touch-based Ubuntu reveal a mostly clean aesthetic
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Top of the tree, this is the Idol X and Idol Ultra from Alcatel. I’ve gotta be honest, the Idol X is easily the best handset I’ve seen from the company in a long time. The One Touch Idol X is painfully thin at just 67.5mm thick and comes out in July 2013. . . . → Read More: MWC – Alcatel One Touch Idol X and Idol Ultra  Ubuntu’s Touch Developer Preview was originally put forward as something for “enthusiasts” as well as developers. Well, having been hands-on with the code that will be made public tomorrow, we’d say it requires enthusiasm a-plenty — perhaps even amateur coder quantities of the stuff. . . . → Read More: Developer preview of touch-based Ubuntu is called that for a reason (hands-on video) We're seeing plenty of manufacturers that are trying to remove as much space around the displays of their mobile devices as possible, but few are considering that this may actually introduce usability issues. Synaptics, a touchscreen solution provider for many popular handsets, was showing off a concept tablet called Sensa . . . → Read More: Synaptics Sensa concept tablet showcases problem (and solution) with shrinking bezels  Apple made a big deal about the iPad mini providing an uncompromised iPad experience for users, and it’s standing by that by making it impossible for web developers to detect whether a web page is being read on an iPad or an iPad mini. Usually, devices provide a means with which developers can determine physical screen size, allowing them to create different wrappers for web content depending on what screen they’re being viewed on . . . → Read More: For Web Content Formatting, Apple Makes iPad Mini Indistinguishable From Regular iPad  We must be smack-dab in the middle of audio week, because even GSM giant AT&T is bestowing the fantastic phonic prizes for your possible procurement, with four Beats Bundles up for grabs. What is this bundle of Beats? . . . → Read More: Engadget Giveaway: win one of four Beats Audio bundles, courtesy of Daybreak! A statistic data that released by Gartner explained that Symbian takes almost 50 percents of operating system amount that used in smartphone on 2008 and 2009. . . . → Read More: Symbian^4 User Interface Displayed on Videos  Smartphone fanatics may recall the Neonode N2 — a rather unique recall-plagued feature phone that ultimately resulted in the demise of the company’s handset arm . Neonode is still a major player in the portable device market, but may be more familiar to OEMs that employ its infrared LED-based touch technology , rather than consumers that utilize it in e-readers, with tablets soon joining the mix . zForce offers several advantages over its capacitive-based counterparts — it’s incredibly responsive and accurate, and can now measure the intensity (or pressure) of your touch, and not just position . . . → Read More: Neonode zForce uses infrared LEDs to measure pressure, replace capacitive touch (hands-on)  Following its November debut , HTML5 publishing platform (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist ) Pressly , is preparing to launch its self-serve platform for bloggers. Planned to go live this spring, the platform will allow publishers of any kind – big or small – to transform their WordPress sites, Tumblr blogs, Twitter updates and other social feeds into tablet and touch-friendly sites that work on the iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, BlackBerry PlayBook and Android tablets. . . . → Read More: Pressly Goes DIY: Will Turn Tumblr, WordPress & Twitter Into Touch-Friendly Websites  Looks like the honeymoon is ending a little early for some Galaxy Nexus users — a pair of RootzWiki threads say that the device is struggling to maintain multitouch in some situations. Apparently the bug is repeatable, booting up a multitouch game like Gun Brothers or Shadow Gun will put the lower right hand portion of the smartphone’s touchscreen in a finicky mood. . . . → Read More: Galaxy Nexus users reporting touchscreen trouble, lower scores in multitouch games (video) |
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