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Thursday, 5 August 2010

Smartphone news

The Blackberry Torch has been launched and The Inquirer has a hands-on report:
'From my initial experience of the Torch, the screen is now much more comparable to the leaders in the market for a touchscreen experience such as Apple and HTC. It was a smooth experience scrolling up and down and side to side while browsing webpages and the pinch to zoom worked well. It also requires a lighter touch than the Storm.

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However, the browsing experience still had a slight lag compared to other devices, with pages not quite as speedy to load up as I'm used to seeing. This was not expected, as RIM made a big deal of the new Webkit browser during its launch presentation. Perhaps it's not helped by the use of a 624MHz Marvell processor, compared to the 1GHz processors included in models such as the Iphone 4 and HTC Desire.

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The handset measures 111 x 62 x 14.6mm and weighs 161.1g. Compare this to the slimline Iphone 4's 115.2 x 59.6 x 9.3mm dimensions and 137g weight, and another touchscreen with slide-out keypad combo, Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1, at 110.5 x 52.6 x 17mm and 145g.'


meanwhile Blackberry have also announced their new operating system, Blackberry 6...


Away from RIM, I hear that Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 devices will be lacking "copy and paste" functionality; haven't Microsoft learned from Apple's experience in this area?


And here's a piece of video of Macallan's Tablet UI for Windows 7 Tablet Devices

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