HTC announced their newest phone today, the Touch Diamond. It of course has some iPhone similarities, such as the coverflow option and an integrated YouTube function. The weather widget (if you wanna to call it that) looks pretty neat, and features a wind shield wiper across the screen to indicate rain. Also included is GPS, HSDPA and WiFi - the first time they’ve all been included in a mobile handset!
The HTC Touch Diamond will be available in Europe (on Orange) starting June 2008, and will hit Asia and the Middle East later this quarter. US shores should expect the phone the second half of 2008, with no official date announced. No word on pricing.
Complete Specs:
Size: 102 x 51 x 11.33mm
Weight: 110 g
Connectivity: WCDMA / HSDPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA
Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
It looks like AT&T will be among one of the first to feature Microsoft’s Surface, an interactive touch screen table, in a retail environment. Customers will be able to place handsets on the Surface and through the magic of Bluetooth communication be able to review the handsets feature sets and options, in addition to coverage areas and making custom modifications to their handset. The first Surfaces will appears in major cities such as NYC, Atlanta, San Antonio and SF. Expect Microsoft’s Surface to appear in AT&T stores sometime this month (April 08).
The DigitalRist D-RiseTM m600i is quite simply out of control. Not only is it unlocked for use with any SIM card, but it rocks a touchscreen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, mp3 player, voice recorder, Bluetooth, expandable from 60mb to 512mb flash memory, and more. What, no GPS? The only draw back: it only works in Europe and Australia. Price: $320 (350AU)
At first glance the demo appears to be nothing special. But once the demo get’s into the ordering part, and you realize that the Surface is the actual table you’ll be sitting at, it’s pretty damn cool. Just watch the video already!
The genesis of saving money isn’t a complicated one: get piggy bank, grow up, open bank account. But in today’s digital world that just doesn’t seem fitting. Zillion’s ‘Touch Screen ATM’ gives all the money lessons your kid will ever need to become the next big time banker Mommy and Daddy always dreamt of. This little digital piggy holds up to $999.99 and accepts real coins and bills - although I am not sure how much actual, physical money it can hold. Kids can make deposits, withdrawals and check balances by interacting with its touchscreen by finger or included stylus. To insure that your child understands the value of a bank account, a checkcard and PIN are required to access the cold hard cash.
Ordering at any restaurant never seems to be a simple task, especially if you have a half witted high school kid manning your table. The Teroka Deli Touch Pen might change all that. The pen is simply touched to a picture that reads the embedded barcode, and the order is received. I don’t know what happens if you touch the wrong item, but perhaps their is some sort of confirmation process. 45,000 Yen a month (yes, Japan only right now) or about $420/month and includes 30 pens. Cheaper then a touch screen system and half as fragile. I wonder if they include some sort of tethering device for the pens?
Beating the crap out of your equipment with no regret is always an interesting proposition. Last week it was the Sonim XP1 cell phone that could take a 9mm bullet. This week it’s the Duros 8” Rugged Tablet PC. Rated military grade (MIL STD 810F) the Duros can survive significant shock, dust, water, and freezing or heat blistering temperatures. It rocks a 8.4” sunlight viewable SVGA touchscreen LCD, an AMD Geode™ LX 800 Processor or Intel Celeron M 1.0 GHz, up to 1GB of memory, and a 120 GB hard drive, or an optional 64GB SSD drive. Its feature set includes, GPS, WiFi, EDGE, Bluetooth, GRPS, and UMTS makeing this touchscreen tablet a true wireless wonder ‘puter. Weighs 4.8lbs and it won’t slip into a manila envelope at 1.7” thick.
What’s cooler than a Vespa with a Louis Vuitton seat? A Vespa with a Louis Vuitton seat and a touch screen LCD runing Windows XP of course! This red showboat of glory won the “Best Modern Vespa award” at the Amerivespa contest.
, or an optional 64GB SSD drive. Its feature set includes, GPS, WiFi, EDGE, Bluetooth, GRPS, and UMTS makeing this touchscreen tablet a true wireless wonder ‘puter. Weighs 4.8lbs and it won’t slip into a manila envelope at 1.7” thick.
