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eLocity A7 Android tablet turns out to have limited multitouch

Brad Linder — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:30:26 +0000

The eLocity A7 Android tablet has been getting a lot of attention recently, as one of the first Android tablets available in the US to sport an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, Android 2.2, and a capacitive, multitouch display. That ain't a bad set of features for a $299 device. Unfortunately, it's starting to look like "multitouch" might be...

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Huawei S7 Android tablet with capacitive touch display coming soon?

Brad Linder — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:34:50 +0000

The Huawei S7 is a 7 inch Android tablet with decent specs including a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 3G and WiFi data connectivity, and full access to the Google Android Market. But some folks have been disappointed to find that the version currently available in the US and Europe has a resistive touchscreen display, which reacts better to a stylus of...

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Suli introduces the SL-7 Android tablet

Brad Linder — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:41:59 +0000

We've seen a lot of cheap Android tablets come out of Taiwan and China over the past year, but most are burdened with low power processors and cheap plastic resistive touchscreen displays. Charbax at ARMDevices got a chance to check out an upcoming tablet called the Suli SL-7 that will sell for around $250 and which comes with a capacitive...

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Fujitsu launches line of 5 to 12 inch multitouch resistive displays

Brad Linder — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:57:02 +0000

Resistive touchscreen panels get a bad rep these days, both because they can't recognize fingertip input as easily as capacitive touch panels and for because many people have the mistaken belief that resistive displays can't handle multitouch input. The truth is that while most cheap resistive touch panels found in tablets, netbooks, and handheld devices are single-touch only, that's not...

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Mirabyte updates its FrontFace touchscreen UI for Windows tablets

Brad Linder — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:31:37 +0000

Mirabyte FrontFace is a touch friendly replacement for the default Windows shell that attempts to make Windows XP, Vista, and 7 easier to navigate on a touchscreen tablet style computer. I took an early build for a test drive this summer, and the software was still obviously a work in progress. For instance, while there was a space for arranging...

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Capacitive multitouch netbook touchscreens going for under $100 on eBay

Brad Linder — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:00:42 +0000

It's been pretty easy to snag a touchscreen display that you can slap in a 9 or 10 inch netbook for the past few years, thanks to eBay. But these touch panels have tended to be inexpensive resistive touchscreens, requiring a stylus or fingertip for input and typically recognizing only one input at a time. Now the folks at Netbook...

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Multitouch gesture support coming to Ubuntu 10.10

Brad Linder — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:19:07 +0000

Multitouch gesture support is everywhere these days. Windows 7 has it baked in (well, not Windows 7 Starter, but all the other versions). So does Apple OS X and iOS, Google Android, Palm WebOS, and a number of other mobile operating systems. So it's not all that surprising that Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth is announcing that the next version...

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OLPC XO 1.75 Laptop to support multi-touch

Brad Linder — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:05:28 +0000

OLPC has announced its software goals for the next-generation XO Laptop. While the group isn't ready to launch an XO tablet yet, the XO-1.75 Laptop will have a touchscreen display, and the software developers are working on adding support for multitouch gestures -- which will also come into play when the tablet is ready for release. As part of the...

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Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 now available for download

Brad Linder — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:15:54 +0000

Microsoft launched the Touch Pack for Windows 7 last year to help showcase some of the touchscreen capabilities of Windows 7. But it was only available to OEMs, which meant that if your computer didn't come with Microsoft Touch Pack preloaded, you couldn't install it yourself... until now. Yesterday Microsoft released the Touch Pack for Windows 7 as a free...

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Linux notebooks get multitouch gesture support for Synaptics touchpads

Brad Linder — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:42:42 +0000

Synaptics has introduced technology to support multitouch touchpads on systems running Linux. Up until now, Synaptics drivers were available primarily for Windows systems with supported touchpads. But the Synaptics Gesture Suite Linux (SGS-L) is available for a variety of Linux distributions including Fedora, Millos Linpus, Red Flag, SUSE, Ubuntu, and Xandros. Synaptics says Google Chrome OS and other operating systems...

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Stantum touchscreens with 10-finger, stylus input coming soon?

Brad Linder — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:21:20 +0000

There are all sorts of touchscreens out there. But one of the biggest lines diving, say, an iPhone touchscreen from those found on many tablets, notebooks, and Windows Mobile phones is the line between screens that accept stylus input and those that are finger-friendly. It's rare to find a touchscreen that can handle both types of input, which is a...

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Lenovo introduces Ideapad S10-3 netbook and S10-3t tablet

Brad Linder — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:03:02 +0000

The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 is the third consumer-oriented 10 inch netbook from the company. The base model features a new Intel Atom N450 or N470 processor and an updated design, but overall it's not that different from its predecessor, the IdeaPad S10-2. The S10-3t, on the other hand, is another story. The IdeaPad S10-3t features a 10 inch capacitative touchscreen display that...

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Asus Eee PC T101MT touchscreen tablet smiles for the FCC camera

Brad Linder — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:24:07 +0000

It's been almost a year since Asus first showed off a 10 inch Eee PC netbook with a touchscreen display that swivels and folds down over the keyboard for use in tablet mode. But a variation of that netbook has finally made its way to the FCC, which could mean that release is imminent. Wireless Goodness spotted a few documents...

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Linux + Multitouch display = open source 10 fingered goodness

Brad Linder — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:03:22 +0000

Thinking about picking up one of those newfangled multitouch displays for your netbook, but holding off because you're worried that there won't be support for multitouch gestures under Linux? It looks like there's nothing to worry about. While most versions of Windows 7 (but not Windows 7 Starter) include built-in support for multitouch screens, most Linux distributions don't yet include...

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Multitouch 10.1″ DIY netbook touchscreen kits found on eBay

Lee — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:20 +0000

10.1" netbooks are pretty well dirt cheap right now - there were loads available this Thanksgiving weekend for less than $200, and that looks like a trend that's going to continue. But what if you want a multi-touch capable device? Those are a bit more pricey. However, if you're willing to crack open the plastic housing on your netbook and...

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