While the resizeable on-screen keyboard for the upcoming HP TouchPad tablet looks pretty nice, nothing beats a physical keyboard for getting some serious typing done. If you find you can eke out 100wpm per minute with a physical keyboard and just 20 to 30 with your thumbs, fear not: HP is showing off a Bluetooth […]
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Qualcomm unveils details on the chip powering the HP Touchpad tablet
You know that shiny new tablet HP introduced yesterday? The first 10 inch tablet to run webOS? It’s also going to be the first tablet to ship with a new Qualcomm chip called the Snapdragon APQ8060. Qualcomm officially announced the chip this morning. As you’d expect, it’s a low power ARM-based chip which should provide […]
HP webOS tablet to be called the TouchPad
HP is holding an event in about an hour to unveil its next-generation of products powered by Palm’s webOS operating system. While waiting for the event to begin the folks at PreCentral overheard some details about the company’s upcoming webOS tablet. First, it looks like it will be called the TouchPad, which isn’t a huge […]
HP applies for trademark on “Touchpad”
HP has filed for a trademark on the term “HP Touchpad.” That could mean the company doesn’t plan to call its upcoming webOS tablet the PalmPad, which is great news because that’s just a silly name. On the other hand, TouchPad doesn’t seem all that great either — especially considering it’s what we call the […]
Synaptics develops technology to make Windows ClickPads usable
Over the past year or so we’ve seen a growing trend of laptop makers eliminating touchpad buttons and instead using touchpads with integrated clicking, also known as ClickPads. While Apple has demonstrated that these ClickPads can actually be pretty useful tools, most of the Windows notebooks I’ve tried with ClickPads are plagued with problems: the […]
Synaptics adds 4-finger support to PC touchpads
Remember two years ago when 2-finger touchpad scrolling was all the rage? You ain’t seen nothing yet, because touchpad makers Synaptics have introduced support for four-finger gestures. The company’s new TouchPad-IS platform also features SmartSense technology to prevent accidental cursor activation when your palm hits the touchpad. Synaptics is also starting to demonstrate a new […]
Dell Inspiron 11z gets a new touchpad
The Dell Inspiron 11z is a thin and light notebook with a 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel HD display, an Intel CULV processor, and a nice wide keyboard. My only real complaint with this netbook is that it has one of the worst touchpads I’ve ever used. I’m not a fan of touchpads with […]
Linux notebooks get multitouch gesture support for Synaptics touchpads
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 […]
Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 review
The Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 is Lenovo’s third netbook in the IdeaPad line. But you could probably have guessed that from the name. Here’s what you might not know: It’s the best looking 10 inch netbook Lenovo has released to date, and it’s the first with a new Intel Atom N450 Pine Trail processor. The netbook […]
Jolicloud operating system unlocks multitouch gestures on Eee PC 701 – Video
Most Asus Eee PC netbooks with 9 and 10 inch displays include multitouch gesture support for the touchpad. In other words, you can scroll up and down or left and right by placing two fingers on the keyboard, and you can simulate a right-click by tapping the screen with 3 fingers. But the 7 inch […]