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We already know that Apple is readying a tablet for those MacBook and iPhone fans, while Microsoft has already leaked its similar product, the Courier tablet. In case you’re worried about having to use a keyboard connected to the portable device in order to be able to write decently, worry not, as Microsoft has got it covered.
What you can see above is a Microsoft multitouch keyboard concept, allowing the user to write efficiently by tapping the display. The technology was recently filed as a patent by the Redmond giant and it turns out that the virtual keyboard will appear on screen whenever the user wants to write something, no matter where the hands are placed on the display.
This provides efficiency and huge user-friendliness, plus you won’t have to look at the screen, specially if the virtual keypad follows your hands. Strangely enough, there seems to be no letter “G” on the keyboard pictured above. Does Microsoft hate Google that much?
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Count this one as a rumour, or simply the moment when the world learned that Microsoft wants to create an iPhone of its own. Since Zune HD is selling out everywhere, it’s clearly a hit and a phone version of it would surely conquer the world. The guys of 9to5mac have uncovered that Microsoft will launch two phones in 2010, in cooperation with Sharp.
Dubbed “Turtle” and “Pure”, the phones are part of “Project Pink” and Sharp will assist Microsoft through the development of these devices. Word has it that Turtle resembles Motorola QA1, but all in all we might be dealing with Sidekick-like handsets, since the Danger buyout was also mentioned as part of the rumour.
Pure is a more traditional handset, with the candybar form factor and we should expect to see both phones released at CES 2010 in January. Rumours or reality?
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Renders and concepts are much the same things, so we couldn’t miss this cool looking Android tablet with a 7 inch screen. Turns out that it’ll be released by China Mobile, so it’ll support TD-SCDMA 3G connectivity.
The tablet comes with a 7 inch touchscreen display, voice and video calling, email, web browsing, SMS/MMS messaging and multimedia features. This mystery device will rely on the OPhone, a customized version of Android, but what really had us puzzled were the “call” and “end call” keys…
Should we call this a phone with a huge touchscreen? Ever heard of VoIP?
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Oh, how we love it when we stumble upon poor phones, with bad design and lame concepts behind them. That way we can do all the critique we want and enjoy the really good concepts more.
It’s time to take the Cigarette Lighter Phone SB6309 for a ride, specially because it doesn’t do anything spectacular… unless you count lighting your “cancer sticks”.
Yes, this is a phone with a cigarette lighter built in and you’ll find the fiery mechanism under a sliding cover. Don’t expect the device to look anything like these renders, in fact don’t expect anything at all, since the site that “sells” the device is filled with malware.
Could this be an anti smoking campaign in disguise? Making a lighter phone look bad and all… What do you say?
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Synaptics demos in the video below its next generation touchscreen solution, Clearpad 3000, supporting multifinger capability. Up to 10 fingers will be able to interact with what might be the iPhone 4G’s display. Here’s the technology in action:
This new kind of touchscreen will enable multifinger unlocking gestures, independent tracking of fingers and even gestures like “crumpling” a virtual paper to close an app. Games will be more fun to play, people will be able to play pianos on their touchscreens and type on the virtual keyboard with both hands.
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Do you miss the tactility of physical dials and buttons or have you gone completely to the touchscreen side? Imagine a child born in the touchscreen age… will he also have the desire to touch real buttons, thanks to the good old DNA? We’re not here to answer that, but rather to have a look at the demo below, a tech blending multi-touch and physical buttons:
This brand new display technology uses air chambers that can turn into buttons or various symbols shown on-screen and tactile enough to allow a decent interaction. This innovation would surely aid blind users, turning into some sort of Braille shape shifting keypad. Also, we learn that the new screens will still be sensitive enough, thanks to “Microsoft Surface-like IR rear-projection touch-detection”.
As we speak, the technology is limited to “inflating” the air chamber or deflating it to the “puffed” and “sucked” state, in order to display 2 different shapes on the screen, but this is a mere concept, so it’ll evolve in the future.
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We’re keen on any info regarding prototypes, patents, phone concepts and designs, but this time it’s a tragedy we’re dealing with and a quite intriguing piece of news. A 25 year old worker at Chinese manufacturer Foxconn (that maker of all iPhone models) has committed suicide after the iPhone 4G prototype he was looking after went missing…
I’m sure that the product was worth its value in gold, if not more and it’s hard to say if the man really committed suicide or if he was a victim of the industrial espionage or its “counter measures”. The web is abuzz with stories concerning illegal searches of the man’s apartment and even physical abuse on him, during interrogation.
Rumours seem to point towards Foxconn employee, but we’re not the one pointing fingers. Meanwhile, the Cupertino giant expresses its sadness concerning the man’s death, but we wonder what would happen if we’d post a picture of the 4G iPhone here? Would we also be found dead?
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Although some of you might think that this is a prototype or concept, turns out that WigiTel W3 is a real watch phone, one that looks like a clam and packs 2 displays. The device is sold by Czech company WigiTel and its packs a 128 x 128 pixels internal touchscreen display and an OLED external screen.
WigiTel W3 supports dual band GSM connectivity (900/1800 MHz) with GPRS and incorporates an USB port, a music player and also supports Bluetooth. The watch phone measures 51 x 51 x 20 mm, weighs 55 grams, packs a VGA photo camera and it’s bundled with a 1GB microSD card.
Its battery lasts about 200 minutes in talk mode and up to 120 hours in standby. You can buy WigiTel W3 from here for $258 unlocked.
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It’s been a while since we saw “Dell” and “phone” in the same phrase, but now the famous PC maker is back with that seems to be a Palm Pre-like handset. Rumour has it that this device, pictured in China, runs Android and that it’ll hit the market this year. Prototype, concept or just a Photoshop render?
Some of you might remember that months ago, Dell’s first phone prototypes were rejected by major companies, carriers, that could have been Dell’s partners in this initiative. The logical move was to go back to the drawing board and come up with… this.
Does it look promising enough to at least threaten HP’s iPAQ series?
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We were fascinated by NTT DoCoMo’s concept phone we discovered last week, specially since it was a device meant to hit the market in 2015. This modular handset supported various attachments, like a blood testing gadget and even a flute. Turns out that there’s also a flexible scroll attachment, you can check out below.
Notice the big clear screen available for the user to visualise, replacing your daily newspaper. If this is the concept cellphone of 2015, we’re definitely its fans and you can see more of NTT’s ideas for the following 6 years in the video below, since their handset design looks so promising.
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We already know that Apple is readying a tablet for those MacBook and iPhone fans, while Microsoft has already leaked its similar product, the Courier tablet. In case you’re worried about having to use a keyboard connected to the portable device in order to be able to write decently, worry not, as Microsoft has got it covered.
