tech65 » touchwiz http://www.tech65.org voice of technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:23:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) 2006-2012 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ daniel@tech65.org (Tech65) daniel@tech65.org (Tech65) Technology, Singapore, Gadgets, Computers, Software, Hardware 1440 http://www.tech65.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/t65mainwhite-144.pngtech65http://www.tech65.org 144 144 http://feeds.feedburner.com/65bits Tech65 Pte. Ltd. is Singapore's Technology Source. With a deep bench and the broadest expertise online, we cover the tech news that is most relevant to you. With a focus on the Singaporean audience, but an eye to the wider world, our reporting provides a distinctly local flavour that appeals beyond our shores.Tech65.org is our flagship website, serving as the central repository of all our video, audio and photo content. We are also especially proud of our flagship audio podcast, 65bits, a bi-weekly podcast aimed at giving you the absolute essential tech news. Technology, Singapore, Gadgets, Computers, Software, Hardware Tech65 Tech65 daniel@tech65.org no no Gear65 #45 – Samsung Pixon 12http://www.tech65.org/2009/11/23/gear65-45-samsung-pixon-12/ http://www.tech65.org/2009/11/23/gear65-45-samsung-pixon-12/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:49:44 +0000 Daniel http://www.tech65.org/?p=739

What happens when you cross the Samsung Pixon with the Samsung Jet and throw in a 12 megapixelled digital camera while you’re at it? You get Samsung’s newest Pixon 12! In my opinion, this is the Samsung Pixon the way it should have been from the start, as far as usability is concerned.

TouchWiz 2.0, insane camera, for a non-smartphone, what’s there not to love? If you ask me? I think Samsung still needs to work on their on-screen keyboard. What does this phone mean to you? Why don’t you watch this episode of Gear65 and let us know if you like what you see!

Link: Samsung Pixon 12

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So how do you draw the line between a smartphone and a non-smartphone? On the Samsung Jet, the line gets thinner as this non-smartphone powerhouse shows us how it can be as powerful as a smartphone too!

Link: Samsung Jet

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This week we take a look at the Samsung Ultra Touch, a sleek beautiful touch-screen device with a sliding keypad filled to the brim with things like a feature-filled 8 megapixel camera, GPS, HSDPA etc. Does Samsung’s TouchWiz UI, however, match up with the features it brings?

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In summary, Fujitsu has a new service centre, HP has a new budget ultra portable, Singapore has a new rank to show-off, Windows has a new ad and Farinelli has a new feature in Gmail he totally should start using.

A great time to just talk about stuff that isn’t news?

- Daniel and DK

Stories this week:

[02:20] New Fujitsu service centre
[05:00] HP’s new Pavilion DV2 budget ultra portable
[09:10] Games Developers’ Conference 2009
- [10:00] OnLive – Cloud gaming console
[14:05] Singapore 4th most networked country… Yawn…

Let’s talk about Tech
[14:50] Windows Vista – Now no longer a technical failure but a PR failure?
- Microsoft’s latest “I’m a PC” ad
[22:50] Samsung TouchWiz UI (P.s. When I said “confirmed”, I really meant “convinced”)

[29:10] Byte of the week! Wait, let’s talk about Facebook first
[31:55] Byte of the Week: Gmail Labs: Undo send!

]]> http://www.tech65.org/2009/03/30/65bits-episode-112-the-quietest-cafe-in-singapore/feed/ 1 0:37:48 In the continuation of tech news draught that seems to be happening more often this year, we find ourselves sitting at the location where we recorded our very first out-door 65bits (How did we ever manage to talk for less than twenty minutes back th[...] In the continuation of tech news draught that seems to be happening more often this year, we find ourselves sitting at the location where we recorded our very first out-door 65bits (How did we ever manage to talk for less than twenty minutes back then!?). In summary, Fujitsu has a new service centre, HP has a new budget ultra portable, Singapore has a new rank to show-off, Windows has a new ad and Farinelli has a new feature in Gmail he totally should start using. A great time to just talk about stuff that isn’t news? - Daniel and DK Stories this week: [02:20] New Fujitsu service centre [05:00] HP’s new Pavilion DV2 budget ultra portable [09:10] Games Developers’ Conference 2009 - [10:00] OnLive – Cloud gaming console [14:05] Singapore 4th most networked country… Yawn… Let’s talk about Tech [14:50] Windows Vista – Now no longer a technical failure but a PR failure? - Microsoft’s latest “I’m a PC” ad [22:50] Samsung TouchWiz UI (P.s. When I said “confirmed”, I really meant “convinced”) [29:10] Byte of the week! Wait, let’s talk about Facebook first [31:55] Byte of the Week: Gmail Labs: Undo send! 65Bits, Podcasts Tech65 no no Samsung Ultra Touch Unbox (HD Video)http://www.tech65.org/2009/03/26/samsung-ultra-touch-unbox-hd-video/ http://www.tech65.org/2009/03/26/samsung-ultra-touch-unbox-hd-video/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:00:33 +0000 Daniel http://www.tech65.org/?p=470

More unboxing today! This time, it’s a first look at the flagship Samsung Ultra Touch (a.k.a S8300) that we saw at the MWC event at Samsung a while ago. The cool thing about this unbox is that the phone isn’t even on sale in Singapore yet!!

This phone is filled with features, and like all top-of-the-line phones, it’s got everything from GPS, 3.5G HSDPA, Bluetooth etc. And carrying on the Samsung flasgship tradition, it has a really powerful camera too. 8 megapixels!! With LED flash, auto-focus, smile, face detection, anti-shake etc. Also, like we mentioned during the MWC post, this TouchWiz UI powered phone, like all other TouchWiz UI phones (Pixon etc), doesn’t have WiFi built-in.

Stay tuned for next week’s Gear65, after the Vaio P episode, as we take a more detailed look and review the Ultra Touch!

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The following are some photos and videos we took at the event.


Samsung Ultra Touch

A pretty slick phone with the usual powerful camera found on the Pixon. Running on the TouchWiz UI (I prefer to think it’s an OS) found on the Pixon, it is very similar with it in terms of specs, including the lack of WiFi, which continues to boggle the mind. There’s an interesting face recognition feature being shown off here similar to that found on iPhoto 09 that allows you to tag faces in a photo, and lets you call them by touching their faces on the screen. Of course the presenter points out that if you have too many faces in a photo, the boxes are gonna be too small to touch.

Samsung Beat DJ

Samsung has decided to replace the “Live Loud” brand of it’s music phones with a new “Beat” brand. The Beat DJ is their flagship Beat phone, also running on TouchWiz UI, ALSO lacking WiFi. The “DJ” feature on this phone seems to be just a novelty, but I’d like to point out that the touch area extends to the wheel at the bottom. Oh, and as much as we at Tech65 hate people who blast their music in the public, it appears that it is a trend nowadays, so we can’t blame Samsung for responding to this “beng” market by putting B&O speakers into their Beat phones. Urghh…

Now you can get out of awkward situations with the Samsung Ultra B

I thought this was the funniest thing I’ve seen built into a phone. This phone has a “fake call” feature that when activated by a shortcut, initiates a fake call. Wait, hold on, I got a call… “Hello? What? Little Johnny fell into the well?? I’ll be right over!! Sorry, gotta dash… Emergency…” According to the rep, you can even record a conversation so that it sounds like you actually have a real call! Oh, and when there’s a real call, the phone won’t ruin your cover by ringing. I know there are iPhone apps out there that do that, but this is the first time I’ve seen something like this built right into a phone!

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