The new version of iGuidance is on it’s way. Existing customers can preorder the upgrade now for $79. New customers can pre-order starting June 22 here. New V4 features include: • New Navteq map including Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands • Text to speech (TTS) (street name in voice guidance) • Extended POI listings (6 millions) • Pre-generated seamless map file for entire N. Ame (1.3GB) • Automatic font sizing for POI’s w/ long …
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Finger vs. Stylus vs. Thumboard (Part 2)
Next we’ll look at the stylus oriented interface. This type of interface has been around since the 20th Century. Heck people have been using stylus-like tools to document things for thousands of years. Let’s see what the pros and cons for this one are: Stylus oriented interface: Pros: – Stylus has a much smaller surface area than a finger – Buttons can be smaller since the input device is smaller. This will allow you to …
Continue readingOpera Mini Beta 4 Works Like iPhone Safari Browser
As posted by Gizmodo: There are many reasons that you could call the Opera Mini 4 Beta an assault on the iPhone’s Safari browser. New features include: • Overview mode empowers people to browse their favorite Web sites • Zooms in and cleanly focuses on the content you want (as seen in Opera’s Wii browser) • Dynamically changes size of text and images, to read without a lot of scrolling • A virtual mouse to …
Continue readingFinger vs. Stylus vs. Thumboard (Part 1)
This series is an attempt to discuss the advantages and disadvantages to the 3 major mobile device input methods. Apple is purporting that the one-finger interface is better than the traditional stylus interface and the more popular hardware thumboard interface. So let’s see how it goes… Finger-oriented interface… Pros: – You don’t have to pull out a stylus – The device can be smaller and have a larger screen since it doesn’t need room for …
Continue readingHTC Touch with WM6 Professional
INTRODUCTION Almost a month before the Apple iPhone will be released, the first touch-sensitive finger-oriented-user-interface mobile phone was released by HTC. It's called the HTC Touch and builds upon Windows Mobile 6 Professional with some new touch screen technology and finger gesture recognition software. While the Touch will not compete in the same market as the Apple iPhone and HTC has said that it was in development long before the iPhone announcement, it's impossible …
Continue readingVideo Review of HTC Kaiser Published
MyMobile911.com has published a little video review about the yet-to-be-released HTC Kaiser. Take a look below at this great device. How many times does the reviewer say “uh”? Originally published on Pocketnow on June 18, 2007. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
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