Word: touchscreens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...iPhone developed the way a lot of cool things do: with a notion. A few years ago Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent-particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area-on what are called tablet PCs: flat, portable computers that work with a touchscreen instead of a mouse and keyboard. Jobs, being Jobs, figured he could do better, so he had Apple engineers noodle around with a better touchscreen. When they showed him the screen they came up with, he got excited. So excited that he thought he had the beginnings of a new product...
...Jobs sicced his wrecking crew of designers and engineers on the cell phone as we know and hate it. They began by melting the face off a video iPod. No clickwheel, no keypad. They sheared off the entire front and replaced it with a huge, bright, vivid screen-that touchscreen Jobs got so excited about a few paragraphs ago. When you need to dial, it shows you a keypad; when you need other buttons, the screen serves them up. When you want to watch a video, the buttons disappear. Suddenly, the interface isn't fixed and rigid, it's fluid...
...browsers and e-mail clients. They put in a cell antenna, plus two more antennas for WiFi and Bluetooth; plus a bunch of sensors, so the phone knows how bright its screen should be, and whether it should display vertically or horizontally, and when it should turn off the touchscreen so you don't accidentally operate it with your...
...launch since Jobs' unveiled the first nano and video-capable iPod, Apple fans spent the weeks leading up to it speculating wildly. The movie-friendly iPod doesn't have a widescreen display (even though most movies on iTunes are formatted in theatrical widescreen). It certainly doesn't have a touchscreen covering its entire front, as some hoped. Nor is there any sort of wireless networking capability for downloading songs remotely or streaming music to a receiver. It does, however, answer many concerns. Capacity has been raised to 80GB in order to make room for 1-2GB movies. Battery life...
...Three key elements set the N1 apart from other Sony cameras: a touchscreen, an internal 500-image photo album and the capability to play animated, musical slideshows on the camera's screen. Each of these can be found in competing cameras, but none done so elegantly, and never all together. The execution of these new elements, combined with the 8.1-megapixel camera's overall impressive performance, makes it one of the most promising cameras of the holiday season and beyond...