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HP TouchSmart tx2: Multi-touch for the masses

Crave The TouchSmart tx2, it says, can recognise gesture inputs from a single finger, two fingers or a combination of finger and stylus. Hold on to your fingerless gloves, touch fans: HP has just announced the first consumer laptop with a multi-touch...

Tags: input, finger, touchsmart, cpu

20 November 2008, 11:21

T-Mobile G1 vs HTC Touch HD vs iPhone 3G vs BlackBerry Storm

Crave While it responds to many tasks with just a finger you still need to pull out the stylus every now and then if you want more accuracy, and that's something we're not keen on. There have been plenty of touchscreen phones out in the past year but few...

3 November 2008, 16:05

Photos: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube)

Crave Good old Stylus McPointless for handwriting recognition sneaked his way into the box, and a twin brother too, should you lose the original. And that plectrum-like thing you're looking at, is indeed a plectrum which doubles up as an alternative stylus.

3 October 2008, 8:46

White HTC Touch Diamond: Ice, Ice baby

Crave And using a stylus is so 2003. Add to that the funky white casing and you can be a true Windows Mobile loving rebel who doesn't care about the iPhone and uses a stylus like a sword of business. If the thought of carrying around another black gadget...

Tags: htc, stylus, diamond, touch diamond

17 September 2008, 11:16

Photos: Palm Treo Pro gets Crave-handled

Crave You can access the Pro using the touchscreen and stylus or the mechanical navigation keys and keypad. Good things come to those who wait -- and no one has waited longer for a super phone than Palm users.

8 September 2008, 11:49

Nokia touchscreen iPhone-a-like resurfaces

Crave The first thing that hits you, aside from the large screen, is the stylus. With the 3G iPhone launch finally out of the way, we thought Nokia would start trumpeting its own touchscreen darling. It hasn't yet, but that doesn't mean a Nokia...

Tags: nokia, logo, touchscreen, tube

12 June 2008, 10:50

Photos: Samsung i900 hands-on

Crave We know this because the i900 doesn't have a stylus slot. It still has a stylus, but this is attached to the carrying case that will be bundled with the device. Leaked images and specifications have led to much speculation about the new Samsung...

6 June 2008, 10:38

MWg Zinc II and E-Ten Glofiish M810: Two peas in a pod

Crave While the menu looks good and is useful in certain cases, we're sceptical because it dumps you back into the Windows Mobile interface, which involves some stylus-led, finger-unfriendly action. Boldly going where few other tech journalists bother to...

9 May 2008, 12:03

Olympus mju 1010 and 1020: Spot the difference

Crave Over in the States it's the Stylus 1020, and features limited edition skins designed by artist Matei Apostolescu. Thompson and Thomson. The Mitchell bruvvers. History is littered with double acts that are near impossible to tell apart.

8 April 2008, 11:20

Pen-on with the Aiptek SlimTablet 600u

Crave Cleverly, these keys, arranged around the sides of working area, pop up onscreen tooltips when you hover over them with the stylus, so you don't have to look down at the tablet. Regular readers may have encountered the ideological schisms that...

Tags: aiptek, notes, tablet, microsoft powerpoint

31 March 2008, 11:52

The 30 dumbest videogame titles ever

Crave Premise: More a tool than a game, Touch Dic is a dictionary and translation title for the Nintendo DS, using the console's touch-happy stylus. Without videogames, many of us would have lives, children and permanent jobs.

27 March 2008, 9:21

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500: Sweet like chocolate

Crave Or you can use the crazy stylus, supplied with the camera -- hands: model's own. The touchscreen also allows you to input text, and set focus and exposure to a particular point in the the frame by prodding it with finger, stylus or sharpened poky...

18 March 2008, 16:00

Hands-on with the Wacom Bamboo tablet

Crave The idea of a graphics tablet -- drawing on a flat pad with a stylus pen and having the resulting squiggles appear on screen -- has always appealed to Crave's illustrative side. Once you develop the spacial awareness of moving around the pad...

Tags: wacom, paper, hand, pad

10 March 2008, 10:16

O2 XDA Orbit 2: Hands-on with the nifty navigator

Crave This can be fiddly, requiring you to use the stylus. The XDA Orbit 2 is O2's version of the HTC Cruise and from the little time we've spent with it, we think it's out of this world (Haha! Ha. No? Combining aspects from the HTC Touch and HTC P3300...

Tags: o2, apps, htc, orbit

6 March 2008, 11:44

Sony Ericsson G700 and G900: Organise your person

Crave Both phones boast 61mm (2.4-inch) touchscreens that support notes written on the screen with a stylus -- exactly what hoodies are gagging for these days. If the phrase 'personal organisers' brings back memories of bulky filofaxes, the new Sony...

Tags: sony ericsson, phones, wi fi, ericsson

11 February 2008, 8:41