Phone responds to human touch
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A handheld device that recognises the way a finger sweeps across the screen has been developed by Taiwanese phone maker HTC.
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While Apple and its iPhone were not officially present at the International Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, one might say it was possible to feel the company's touch.
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GestureTek Mobile could make your phone act like a Wiimote, if only your ordinary phone were so cool. Take a peek at the future of motion navigated mobile games.
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In the Internet age, making telephone contact with a human for customer service is a daunting task. Some companies no longer disclose phone numbers. But some consumers have found ways around the blockade.
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Whenever I'm eating dinner, at a concert or pedaling around town, my damn mobile phone starts buzzing at me. I view the telephone as a necessary evil, but anything I can do to prevent having to pick it up is welcome.
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âThis week,â reports Katerine Boehret , âIâve been using an iPhone and iPod touch withâ the recent Apple updates installed, âand I must say that both devices are much more useful and fun with these improvements.â In particular, Boehret likes Web clip: they âgive these gadgets a new sense of instant gratification because they direct users to specific Web pages seconds after the device turns on.â And the iPod touch ânow has the same stellar Mail program that is found in the iPhone, a real plus,â she says.
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Software application is intended to help the visually impaired make full use of their cell phones.
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A new cellular application promises to help vision-impaired people who can&#39;t read the screen of a mobile phone. It responds to spoken commands with voice recognition technology and reads back menu options, text messages, and other information to the user.
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The phone, dubbed "Soul," is a slider-type handset that with an eye-catching touch panel under the display.
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Optical sensors and touch screens are  the leading technologies that cell phone makers are likely to  use as improvements to the tiny keypads on many of today&#39;s  handsets.
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Sony Ericsson, LG, and Samsung have all caught &quot;iPhoneitis,&quot; joining in on one of the hottest trends at the Mobile World Congress -- touch-based user interfaces.All three launched mobile phones at the show in Barcelona, and they all use touch in different ways -- from LG&#39;s icons that change function depending on what part of the phone is being used to Sony Ericsson&#39;s ability to focus where a user touches while taking a picture.Sony Ericsson likes to point out that it has supported touch since the birth of the company. But it also gives Apple some credit.&quot;They are a source of inspiration,&quot; said Rikard Skogberg, category manager at Sony Ericsson.The point is to make mobile phones easier to use and to open the door for more features, such as mobile Internet.&quot;Sony Ericsson&#39;s goal is to make our phones as easy as possible to use, and touch is a big part of that. If people are going to buy more advanced phones, they must be able to use all the features -- and for that to happen, they must be intuitive,&quot; Skogberg said.LG&#39;s Channel Marketing Manager Heather Seabrooke agrees.&quot;It&#39;s all about usability. With touch, you don&#39;t need a million different buttons. Instead, you can use the same ones for different things,&quot; she said.But not all phone vendors seem to be convinced. Nokia was expected to show a new version of its S60 operating system with an integrated touch-based user interface, but it was nowhere to be seen.Nokia says it will use touch starting sometime during the second half of this year but not in a gimmicky way. And there must be a clear migration path for users.Several analysts are also skeptical.&quot;We believe that a good user interface must also support buttons to be effective and fast. And we will see a lot more innovation before this market becomes mature,&quot; said Leif-Olof Wallin, research vice president at Gartner.But at the same time he thinks that Nokia&#39;s lack of support for touch may hurt its sales in the short term.&quot;Nokia&#39;s new flagship phone, the N96, has an impressive spec, but it doesn&#39;t support touch. And that makes it a bit handicapped,&quot; said Wallin.Ben Wood, director of research at CCS Insight, has this warning for users: &quot;We think 2008 will be the year of crap touch phones.&quot;
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A new cell phone is loaded with software that turns text on photographed documents into speech
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I'm getting a new mobile phone :) In the whole spectrum of digital opportunities, mobile is where the next big battle lies and I'll be rejoining the fray. It's eight years since Western Mail & Echo bought my first mobile. Four phones later my new one will bear no resemblance to the first.
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Sprint Touch-- Trying to Be an iPhoneSprint Touch-- Design and StorageSamsung u470 Juke-- Unusual DesignSamsung u470 Juke-- Swivel RockT-Mobile Sidekick LX-- Sleek UpdateT-Mobile Sidekick LX-- Flip the Screen 'RoundAT&T Tilt-- Hidden PowerAT&T Tilt-- A Rocking DisplayNokia N95-- Feature LadenNokia N95-- Generous Keyboard
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It's one musical performance where your  cell phone can -- and should -- ring.
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Consumers are giving PDAs the hand as they move toward smart phones.
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Not since Alexander Graham Bell has so much attention been lavished on a phone.