Tag archive: graphical user interface

The definition of Smartphone is a wireless, mobile communicating device that provides advance PIM (Personal Information Management) features of a PDA/PocketPC on top of the basic mobile phone functionalities. It also has to allow PIM data synchronisation between your desktop computer and the Smartphone. As such, it's not surprising to find these devices having PC/PDA like interfaces and applications. Physically, they have a large… Read More

From their press release: Consumers can now listen to their favorite music or hear the latest news anytime, anywhere while working on their personal digital assistants, thanks to a new Compact Flash Type 1 radio card from AmbiCom. With a suggested retail price of $39.95, the AmbiCom Radio FM-CF is available immediately from the company (www.ambicom.com). It will be available at retail outlets and on-line at Mobile Planet… Read More

Regardless of how one feels about Microsoft, it is hard to dispute the impressive features found with the Longhorn operating system. A database file system, a composite-based graphics engine, and a hardware-accelerated 3D graphical user interface represent just a few of the greattechnologies slated for release with Longhorn in 2006. Too bad the current development version lacks many of the intended GUI updates, plus WinFS appears to still be in… Read More

The system, based on the popular Playstation 2 platform, will include audio and video functions but will not support DVD+RW recording in its initial incarnation. That capability will be added later, Sony said at Ceatec, Japan's largest electronics show. Two PSX models will debut in Japan this year: the DESR-5000, with a 160-Gbyte hard drive, and the DESR-7000, with a 250-Gbyte drive. The 250-Gbyte drive can record up to 325 hours of… Read More