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If you’ve never heard of Swype, it’s a interact that’s hunting to add the artefact we move book into ambulatory devices. So far, you’ve had digit options: T9 and iPhone-like qwerty keyboards. Three options, really, if you calculate Multitap, but who uses that anyway? All these methods intend tapping crisp buttons. Swype ease has you agitated your digit from digit honor to the next, without ever lifting it. This makes for one-handed book communication that’s questionable to gaming achromic and intuitive. The grouping essentially makes discover what you’re disagreeable to feature from what looks aforementioned a striking on uncomprehensible squibbles. Early reviews were positive and today the interact has declared that the prototypal Swype-enabled good to effect the activity module be the Omnia II, on Verizon, on Dec 2nd.

The above recording shows a lateral by lateral comparability of Swype versus someone typewriting on the iPhone. Never nous that the iPhone individual is apparently challenged and types slower than my gran would. What’s engrossing is to gaming Swype in action, and primed in nous that it’s one-handed.

[ Swype ] VIA [ Techcrunch ]

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Remember the dedicated team that Compal had set aside back in 2007 to focus on all those Atom-based MIDs expected to flood the market? Pilfered, another victim blind-sided by the rise of the netbook. According to DigiTimes’ moles inside the Chinese manufacturing juggernaut, Compal, Quanta, ASUS, and others are focusing resources on netbooks while remaining conservative on Intel’s MID platform. Even with Intel’s battery-sipping Moorestown platform around the corner, we remain skeptical about devices that are too large for the pocket and double the price of netbooks that bring twice the screen and full QWERTY keyboards — for mass market consumption anyway.
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Well, what do you know? Yet again, the tech-savvy bunch producing NBC’s Life has managed to incorporate a relatively fresh piece of technology into the storyline. For those still waiting to check the season finale on DVR, you may want to skip ahead, but for those who either a) already watched or b) don’t ever care to watch, here’s the skinny. Roman Nevikov, Charlie’s arch enemy, appeared to be tracking his every move on Palm’s Treo Pro (minus the branding). ‘Course, he also considered using it as a weapon upside Reese’s skull, but thankfully no LCDs or QWERTY keyboards were harmed during filming. So sad he’ll never get to upgrade to a Pre, ya know?
Gallery: Screen Grabs: Roman Nevikov makes final call on Palm Treo Pro

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We’ve seen bulky UMPCs with hidden QWERTY keyboards and svelte ones you could almost slip in a pocket, but regardless of size they’ve always been comfortable with their lot in life: not being treated as full computers. Not so for Owl’s iMpc A10, a plucky portable that wants you to believe it’s a real machine, starting with its name, which intentionally implies “I’m a PC.” So too is John Hodgman, though, and funny as he is we wouldn’t say he’s a very good portable computing device. The A10 should be, with a 1.2GHz VIA C7 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 16GB SSD. It also sports a 5.6-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, a webcam, 802.11b/g wireless, and a claimed 5 hours of battery life — decent specs but nothing to really differentiate it from the crowd. A price of 2,999 yuan, or about $440, seems reasonable enough, but no availability outside of China means no respect from us.
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Bell Mobility, Canada’s largest CDMA carrier, has launched two new smartphones manufactured by Palm and RIM respectively: Palm Treo Pro and BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230, the latter coming in black and pink.

While the US still doesn’t have the CDMA versions of said handsets, Canadian mobile users can buy any of them as of today.

Bell offers the Palm Treo Pro for as low as $99.95 and the Pearl Flip for only $29.95 – both prices are available only with the signing of a 3-yr contract agreement, of course.

Free of contract, the Treo Pro costs $549.95, while RIM’s clamshell is priced at $499.95. 

Both smartphones come with QWERTY keyboards and they can be found on Bell’s official website – you can go here for the Treo Pro and here for the Pearl Flip.   

Via Press release

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For those less interested in QWERTY keyboards and more inclined for something navigation-centric, Nokia’s announced the 6710 Navigator slider and 6720 classic handset. Both phones dedicated GPS service with real time drive-and-walk navigation, and full regional maps. Outside of that, you’ve got a 5 megapixel camera to capture the memory of our adventure. The 6720 is coming out second quarter of this year for 245 euros, while the 6710 Navigator will be popping in third quarter for 300 euros.

Update: More details from the fact sheets. The 6720 classic’s got a 2.2-inch TFT QVGA, music player with support for MP3, AAC and WMA, FM tuner, and a dual-LED flash. Standby time is 20.5 days and talk time is 5 / 8.5 hours for 3G and GSM, respectively. The 6710 Navigator’s sporting 2.6-inch outdoor optimized QVGA with ambient light detector, support up to 16GB microSD, 18.5 day standby time and 4.5 / 7.5 hour talk time for 3G and GSM, respectively. Both handsets feature built-in A-GPS and Nokia Maps 3.0, a web browser and Carl Zeiss optics for the 5MP camera.
Gallery: Nokia’s GPS-centric 6710 Navigator and 6720 classic announced

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For those less interested in QWERTY keyboards and more inclined for something navigation-centric, Nokia’s announced the 6710 Navigator slider and 6720 classic handset. Both phones dedicated GPS service with real time drive-and-walk navigation, and full regional maps. Outside of that, you’ve got a 5 megapixel camera to capture the memory of our adventure. The 6720 is coming out second quarter of this year for 245 euros, while the 6710 Navigator will be popping in third quarter for 300 euros.

Update: More details from the fact sheets. The 6720 classic’s got a 2.2-inch TFT QVGA, music player with support for MP3, AAC and WMA, FM tuner, and a dual-LED flash. Standby time is 20.5 days and talk time is 5 / 8.5 hours for 3G and GSM, respectively. The 6710 Navigator’s sporting 2.6-inch outdoor optimized QVGA with ambient light detector, support up to 16GB microSD, 18.5 day standby time and 4.5 / 7.5 hour talk time for 3G and GSM, respectively. Both handsets feature built-in A-GPS and Nokia Maps 3.0, a web browser and Carl Zeiss optics for the 5MP camera.
Gallery: Nokia’s GPS-centric 6710 Navigator and 6720 classic announced

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