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As wireless providers gear up for the holiday season, Verizon Wireless says it has high hopes for the new BlackBerry Storm against the ever-popular iPhone 3G, offered by rival AT&T Inc. The company, which represents a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc, has focused solely on Research in Motion's touch-screen BlackBerry, rather than emphasizing different scales of phones for different users this holiday season. "This is our big holiday season...
Research in Motion Ltd. announced Wednesday that it is moving to take on Apple Inc. with a new touch-screen model of their popular BlackBerry phone.The new Blackberry Storm, which will be available later this fall, represents the first time RIM is abandoning its traditional keypad in favor of a larger screen similar to that used on Apple's iPhone.The Waterloo, Ontario-based company said the new smartphone would be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless subscribers in the U.S. and Vodafone...
Cyberhand Technologies International Inc. (PINKSHEETS: CYHA) is a design, marketing and distribution company providing new consumer electronic technologies using innovative ergonomic designs. It announced that it will be designing the world's first and only direct nerve force feedback system. This feedback system is generations ahead of all of the rumble packs on the market today and will make the gaming experience as real as it gets. With sensors embedded in the wrist and elbow pads,...
Japanese researchers are now able to use ultrasonic waves to produce "virtual" objects in mid-air.Integrating computing and the sense of touch, known as the field of haptics, has been around for some time but has required gloves or mechanical devices to impart a sense of feeling.Now researchers have developed a system that uses focused ultrasound to do the job and its inventors may soon commercialize the approach.Multimedia expansion on the web has left our eyes and ears flooded...
NSF makes Carnegie Mellon invention available to more researchersPITTSBURGH"” Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or touch-based, interface developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Unlike most other haptic interfaces that rely on motors and mechanical linkages to provide some sense of touch or force feedback, the device...
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The BlackBerry Torch is a line of smartphones produced by Research In Motion (RIM); models are the Torch 9800, 9810, 9850, and the 9860, all using the BlackBerry OS. The Torch has been hailed as the best BlackBerry ever, but still lags behind in the smartphone industry. The Torch as compared to other Blackberry phones has many improvements such as, a better user interface, improved browser, and more readable screen. The BlackBerry Torch was first considered in April, 2010, with a prototype...
The BlackBerry Storm is developed by Research In Motion (RIM). It is a touchscreen smartphone with a virtual keyboard and comes in the 9500 and 9530 series. This phone has a feature called SurePress, which enables the screen to press down like a button to provide physical feedback. The Storm 9500 has a disabled CDMA module to allow for use outside North America, but it has only frequency bands that can be accessed in Europe, Oceania, Asia, and Brazil. This is because GSM carriers such as...
