touchscreen

Photos: High tech travel in Ford's taxi

News Central to the new features is a 13-inch touchscreen that offers control over entertainment and navigation options, including video and music selections and a scroll of news, weather and sports headlines.

Tags: driver, connect, credit, auto

21 March 2008, 8:00

Microsoft set to unveil Windows Mobile 6

News As with past versions, the operating system comes in both touchscreen and non-touchscreen versions, with software makers still likely to need to write separate versions of their applications. In Windows Mobile 6, non-touchscreen devices can, like...

8 February 2007, 9:16

The iPhone: more questions than answers

News TouchscreenThe touchscreen scrolling used on the iPhone is an intuitive way of navigating -- flick your index finger towards the top of the screen to scroll up, flick down to scroll down. Pogue did note that typing on the touchscreen is not easy...

11 January 2007, 11:21

Photos: Cracking open the iPhone

News The iPhone blends a revolutionary touchscreen interface, media player and smart phone into a slick package. After waiting in line, spending $600, signing a two-year AT&T contract and activating the iPhone, CNET.co.uk's sister site TechRepublic...

9 July 2007, 10:47

News.blog: Mozilla shows off Firefox Mobile

News Designed for touchscreen interfaces -- not multitouch, like the iPhone -- the mobile Firefox browser opens up to reveal a bookmarks list and a 'plus' button to open a new window. The buzz about Firefox these days might be focused on the impending...

Tags: mozilla, firefox, window, iphone

13 June 2008, 9:32

Apple iPhone: US release date announced

News Apple announced the date via three television adverts in the US demonstrating the iPhone's touchscreen and its ability to display photos, play music via an onscreen iPod, surf the Web and show videos.

5 June 2007, 8:30

News.blog: 'Explosion-proof' computer

News It has a 15-inch touchscreen that's readable in any light condition -- including direct sunlight -- and is impact-resistant and can be operated by gloved hands. Turns out the 'explosion-proof' computer that's been making the rounds on the gizmo...

28 September 2007, 9:21

New BlackBerry may target iPhone

News The 9000 is supposed to be a touchscreen device, very similar in form factor to the iPhone," said Carmi Levy, of AR Communications, in an interview with the publication Unstrung. The makers of the BlackBerry smart phone may be working on a rival to...

Tags: rim, keyboard, apple, iphone

26 November 2007, 9:43

Ultraportable speculation at Macworld

News Munster also theorised in an interview with IDG that the new laptop could boast a touchscreen, thus signalling "the beginning of the end of the mouse". As the Macworld expo gears up to open today, the greatest amount of speculation about new...

Tags: apple

15 January 2008, 8:52

Photos: Skipping the bar queues

News The union's Rayhan Rafiq Omar told CNET.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com, the touchscreen ordering will save students having to wrestle with a throng of drinkers to get served. Welcome to the Intermission Bar at the University of Westminster...

21 September 2006, 9:57

Apple patent reignites iPhone rumours

News Last week the US Patent and Trademark office published a patent application that Apple made in March, for a "multifunctional handheld device", that can switch between a music player, phone or PDA, among other things, using a touchscreen with "at...

12 September 2006, 10:45

Philips unit to unveil rollable-display mobile device

News The device's makers claim that the touchscreen, which extends as far as 127mm (5 inches) from the body of the device, "offers a readability similar to printed paper" with high contrast and high reflectivity.

9 February 2007, 9:46

'Sim City DS' being built for Japan

News Extensive use will be made of the DS stylus and touchscreen, not only in the game proper but also in a series of minigames. The Japanese market is notoriously wary of foreign games. However, the runaway popularity of the Nintendo DS in Japan...

5 September 2006, 9:34

Photos: Google's Android software on display

News The notification service is available through a single button click on the phone's touchscreen. Google demonstrated its Android mobile phone software on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.

Tags: man, contact, engineering, maps

29 May 2008, 9:11

Google gets up close and personal

News Then she demonstrated a search for "pizza" in San Jose on Google Maps on her iPhone, elegantly flicking her thumb and middle finger to navigate the map on the touchscreen. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user...

23 August 2007, 9:25