Posted by on under macbooks, hp pavilion, trackpad, brith, seven hours, hps, gestures, annoyance, hinge, fingers, keyboard, attempts, laptop, photo gallery, hp | 
Our curious British fingers managed to stumble upon a
European HP Pavilion dv3 blessed with
Windows 7 and multitouch on both the screen and the trackpad. The keyboard was great to type on with negligible flex, but the trackpad suffers from the same glossy issues on other recent
HPs -- although it responded to our multitouch gestures better than the capacitive screen did. Our major annoyance came from the attempts to rotate pictures on the screen: we learned the hard way that the laptop (or Windows 7 itself) seemed to prefer more exaggerated rotation gestures than the
MacBooks -- perhaps one would get used to it over time. The hinge is fairly solid, but we still preferred holding the screen while touching it. On a brighter note we totally dig the inclusion of an HDMI port and an eSATA port, plus you'll get up to seven hours of sweet battery juice from this 2.24kg (4.94 pounds) machine. Read on for our hands-on video and photo gallery.
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HP Pavilion dv3 with multitouch screen spotted in the wild, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under minded nature, netbook, processor support, trackpad, ultraportable, lenovo, thinkpad, glimpses, 18 nov, 3g, amd, laptops, hard drive, keyboard, nbsp, gps, release date |
We've already gotten a few brief,
mysterious glimpses of Lenovo's thin-and-light ThinkPad X100e (sometimes known as the X200e), but it looks like things are now starting to get a bit more real. Contrary to previous speculation, this one's not, it seems, a ThinkPad netbook, but an "entry ultraportable," which apparently means that it is small, thin and light just like a netbook, and has a "netbook-like price point" -- it's just... not a netbook. Less nebulous are the device's specs, which include an 11.6-inch, 1366 x 768 display, an AMD Athlon Neo processor, support for up to 4GB of RAM, up to a 320GB hard drive, optional 3G and GPS and, of particular note to some particular folks, a distinctly ThinkPad keyboard, trackpad and trackpoint. Still no indication of a release date just yet, but it looks like you will at least be able to get this one in your choice of black, red or white, despite its distinctly business-minded nature.
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Lenovo's ThinkPad X100e gets detailed: AMD Neo-based, not a netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by Jason Kottke on under addictive flash games, scroll wheel, trackpad, puzzles, video games, wheel, dj, game |
You've gotta have a scroll wheel (or trackpad) to play Record Tripping, a game in which you utilize DJ scratching to solve little puzzles.
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Posted by on under steep learning curve, 4ghz wireless, good shape, trackpad, computex, cues, jams, beyonce, butts, slips, pals, cursor, genius, thumb, wheel, nbsp, ifa |
Genius quietly introduced the Ring Mouse back at Computex, but little was said about the curious critter up until last week. Our pals over at
Engadget Spanish managed some alone time with the device at
IFA, and while we can't imagine any long-term mouse user being able to grasp this (mentally, not physically) without first overcoming a steep learning curve, those more accustomed to cellphone optical pads may be in good shape. Put simply, the ring has an optical trackpad ("Opto Touch Wheel") and an embedded 2.4GHz wireless model; wearers use their thumb to navigate the cursor, while miniature left / right click buttons do exactly what you'd expect. There's still nary a word on price, but here's hoping that we can wrap our hands -- er,
something -- around this in the not-too-distant future.
P.S. - These guys are big, big fans.Genius Ring Mouse slips around your finger, cues up Beyonce jams originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under flipout, trackpad, ctia, backtrack, spec sheet, mid range, flipside, slider, hinge, bil, spice, motorola, cy, amp, nbsp, dreams |
Hey, remember that weirdo
Motorola XT300 portrait slider we saw with hints of Droid branding back in August? It was just announced at
CTIA (and released in Brazil) as the Spice. Apart from the form factor, it's basically a
Flipout with a different hinge -- it's got Android 2.1 with Motoblur, a 528MHz processor, a 3.2-inch QVGA screen, Motorola's crazy "Backtrack" rear trackpad, and a 3.2 megapixel camera -- but it was apparently designed and built entirely in Brazil, so that's something. We're assuming AT&T passed on this one when it chose to release the
Flipout, Flipside and Bravo instead, but damn -- can someone please take this form factor and put it together with a high-end Android spec sheet already? We have cash money.
Motorola Spice is the Brazilian Android portrait slider of your mid-range dreams originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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