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- Add a Virtual Keyboard to Your Palm Pre
- As authors of the upcoming book, How to Do Everything: Palm Pre (available now for preorder for just $16.49!), we continue to plumb the depths of what you can do with the phone. For example, did you know you can add a virtual onscreen keyboard? Why would...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Add a Virtual Keyboard to Your Palm Pre -- The Sequel
- Last week you learned a tricky, kinda dangerous way to add a virtual keyboard to your Palm Pre. Good news for non-tech-savvy, non-risk-taking sorts: Now there's an easy way to add a virtual keyboard to your Pre. And I mean easy. All you have to do is...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
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- VKB Joins Symbian Platinum Program to Bring Virtual Keyboard Technology to Symbian OS Advanced Phones
- MENLO PARK, Calif. -- VKB Inc, an intelligent optical interface and projection display technology company, announced today that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OSTM. As a Platinum Partner, VKB is extending its virtual keyboard technology to the Symbian...
- Research articles 2005-05-10
- The Droid joins the battle
- Motorola has desperately needed a hit handset for a while. Now, with the ar-rival of the Droid, the struggling US phone-maker may have achieved it. The Droid is the latest - and in my view the coolest - of the raft of new smartphones built using Google's open source Android...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Barnes & Noble's Nook eReader Launches Today: Here Are the Details
- Barnes and Noble will launch its rumored Nook eBook reader later today at an event in New York City. Thanks to an early leak of the device on the B&N Web site , however, we already know most of the details about...
- News items 2009-10-20
- Motorola Droid, HTC Droid Eris Could Be the Droids You're Looking For
- NEWS ANALYSIS: The Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris present a lot for the typical smartphone user to like, including crisp call quality and excellent battery life. A few kinks aside, the Google Android operating system seems versatile and able to handle most minute-to-minute needs in the productivity, communication...
- News items 2009-11-20
- T-Mobile MyTouch 3G is a solid Google phone -- no, not an iPhone killer
- T-Mobile released the MyTouch 3G last week, its second cellphone based on Google's Android operating system. I've been testing the phone, which goes by the name HTC Magic in other countries, and can see why it sold a million units in its first week. It's a powerful gadget with a...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Review roundup: Motorola Droid, Verizon's first Android handset
- By AppleInsider StaffPublished: 08:25 AM EST Verizon's first Google Android-based handset, the Motorola Droid, has been directly positioned as a competitor to Apple's iPhone. Reviewers have now compared the two to see how they stack up.The Droid officially arrives Friday, sporting a 3.7-inch screen with a width of 843 pixels...
- News items 2009-11-05
- With BlackBerry Storm2, RIM wins the battle but loses the smartphone war [review]
- On Monday, Research in Motion quietly announced the successor to the world's first touchscreen BlackBerry handset: the BlackBerry Storm2. With consideration to the tall expectations that faced its innovative but maligned predecessor at launch, the bungled announcement was a strange move. The mishap can probably be chalked up to miscommunication...
- News items 2009-10-28
- New Palm Pre won't work with old apps
- January 10, 2009 Computerworld LAS VEGAS -- The new Palm Pre, which runs on the new Web OS operating system, will not work with older applications supported on the Palm Treo and other smart phones, a Palm Inc. official confirmed. "We're not emulating [applications from] the old Palm OS, but...
- News items 2009-08-07
- RIM's Vastly Improved BlackBerry Storm
- By Stephen H. Wildstrom Over the past few weeks, I have used about a dozen smartphones. The experience has convinced me that touchscreens will soon be the main way we control phones—and that the days of miniature keyboards may well be numbered. This would seem to be bad news for...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Rumored HTC 'Dragon' Google phone to spar with iPhone, Droid
- It was just a month ago that Motorola's Droid emerged as the best-equipped competitor to Apple's popular iPhone, but another HTC phone is reportedly waiting in the wings to best them both. The HTC Dragon, also known as the Passion, is rumored to be in the palms and pockets of...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Verizon Nabs Omnia II Smartphone
- The Omnia II sports a massive 3.7-inch AMOLED screen that is larger than most competing devices. The smartphone uses touch interfaces for the majority of interactions, so it comes with an on-screen keyboard for messaging. This is one of the first major releases to use Swype technology for the virtual...
- News items 2009-11-24
- Integrating Operations Simulation Results With an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment
- This paper demonstrates the utilization of immersive virtual reality environments in the investigation of operations simulation results. The paper outlines the benefits offered by virtual reality over the traditional two-dimensional computer interfaces, such as the monitor, keyboard and mouse. The paper describes the state of the art in the area...
- White papers 2004-11-11
- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's features, and the comparison offered by B&N to the $259 Amazon Kindle 2, reveals that, while it packs a...
- News items 2009-10-20
- The Five Most Important Things To Know About the Palm Pre
- After spending a few intense days with the Palm Pre, I've got some important observations to share with you before you plunk down any money at the Sprint store. Of course, the Pre has already been reviewed from here to Sunday, so I won't waste your time with the obvious....
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- BlackBerry Storm 2: The big questions
- RIM has unveiled the new Storm 2 to the world, and at first look it's a very similar beast to the first Storm. But there have been changes made, and RIM is pretty confident it has got it right this time – so we take a...
- News items 2009-10-18
- Gmail for iPhone gets aposnever-ending' compose box
- (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)Even with the most practiced digits, composing long e-mail on the iPhone's virtual keyboard is the slow, awkward pits compared with typing on a desktop keyboard. However, Google released a small new feature on Monday just for long-winded iPhone e-mail authors that makes typing lengthy Gmail...
- News items 2009-10-27
- First Official Preview Video of Android 2.0 Is Now Available
- The Android team just released the first official video overview of the upcoming Android 2.0 release. The video, which is geared towards developers, shows off a number of interesting new features, including an improved accounts manager, better contact syncing, easier access to the Android Bluetooth API to...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Android gets a facelift with Sony Ericsson's 'Rachel'
- Sony Ericsson's rumored Android-based Xperia handset is expected to launch on Tuesday, with a brand new user interface codenamed Rachel. As we wait for the device to launch, two YouTube videos about the device have surfaced in recent weeks. One is a promo for the new Xperia handset coming directly...
- News items 2009-11-02
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