TouchSmarter: Touch Screen Gadgets

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Then I dropped my iPhone — it slipped! — from about three feet, and it hit the sidewalk. Apple’s design gurus had miscalculated — one fall and the screen shattered across the top corner. Little bits of glass began to chip away.

The Apple store had bad news. The only way to replace a cracked iPhone screen is to buy a whole new iPhone.

How many of you have had to replace an iPhone (or iPod Touch) due to screen damage/dropping?

Interactive Multimedia Technology: iPhone: Multitouch control of a laptop screen!

The Media Computing Group at RWTH-AACHEN University has developed an application to allow users to control a laptop via a multi-touch iPhone. Although the demo shows how to rotate and resize images, the “multiple views” section is interesting. Like an Etch-a-Sketch, you shake the iPhone to reset the images.

I’ve been toying with ideas about ways to create user-friendly interactions between screens of all sizes. This approach intrigues me.

First impressions - Very nice and smooth UI. The use of touch is amazing compared to using the touchscreen on a WM device. Everything is just ‘made’ to touch, unlike the Windows Mobile devices. Yes, there are programs out there to make WM more touch friendly, but out of the box, there is no comparison.

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How to tether your iPhone to Vista in 5 easy steps

Here are some very easy steps for how to tether your Vista laptop to your iPhone.

shahine.com/omar/ - How to tether your iPhone to Vista in 5 easy steps.

NetShare, the current magician of the Apps Store (it keeps disappearing/reappearing), can let you tether your iPhone 3G in a fairly straight forward manner. Here are some instructions on doing so with Vista.

When I first heard about the Pogo Stylus, a stylus designed specifically for the iPhone/iTouch, I thought it was a joke. After spending some quality time with it, I can tell you it’s no joke. The Pogo Stylus is a handy and functional tool that can be purchased at TenOneDesign.com for $24.95. Check out this GBM Shortcut to learn a little more about the Pogo Stylus.

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 To clarify something that this video focuses on, the reason normal styluses do not work is that the iPhone screen relies on the fact that your finger will conduct electricity, where as all of the items tested in the video will not. I looked for more precise explanations, but could not find any, feel free to post some in the comments.

Hearing there was a stylus for the iPhone, i thought it could be useful for some… after seeing it I am not so sure. For me, given the inherent abilities of the iPhone, the only way a stylus would help is if it had a very narrow tip, for drawing/character recognition. This stylus does not, so it certainly is not something I would consider.

I was in summer holidays and returned yesterday. I installed the multitouch driver and was not impressed by the first experience. It does not work as smooth as I expected (iPhone or iPod touch!) and was woundering why given the CPU&GPU power available on the XT, or is it the digitizer&the driver?
Especially the zoom gesture, it hardly works with one hand (for me). It works OK using both hands, however.

Multitouch Problem? - Tablet PC and Mobile PC Forums.

It seems that, for the moment, other vendors are having issues meeting consumer expectations for multitouch, now that Apple has set the bar so high.

Apparently, Steve Jobs answers his email! Even if it was not really Steve, if the email depicted on MacRumors is valid, it looks like Apple is listening and adjusting its software in response to vocal feedback. The Calendar app on the iPod Touch may just be getting edit-ability after all, in a future update of course.

Wow, has it really been 100 days since Apple turned the world upside down with their iPhone? Here is a nice recap of what the device is like after these 100 days.

…Has got to be the web browsing experience with Safari. I had the opportunity to play around with a colleagues iPhone last week. The device is great, as has been echoed here and elsewhere repeatedly. What struck me the most was web browsing (admittedly over wifi). Not only was the software well designed, much better than I have seen on a mobile device before, but it was FAST. Compared to an HTC 6700 or P4000 (using the same wifi network), the render time on the iPhone is amazing. While the multi touch is a great UI tool, without a solid product/software behind it, the tool is not worth much. And that is where the Apple iPhone shines, it really does work superbly well.

Guttervomit.com (?) has a really well done write up on the iPod Touch. In the end, it is similar to all the rest, the device is great, with some minor quirks.