Dual Electronics has a new product (out later this month) that turns your iPod Touch or iPhone into a portable navigation device, the GPS Navigation & Battery Cradle.
This is interesting, but the price point ($179) seems a bit high considering that not only are there numerous smartphones with GPS and nav (Android is notable), but GPS units at half the price.
A standalone touch screen monitor has been on every geek’s wish list, but how about a multi-touch monitor?! The Dell SX2210T is sexy, multi-touch and affordable. This is a 1920 x 1080 21.5-inch panel, with HDMI and DVI inputs along with an integrated two megapixel (2Mp) webcam and microphone. It has a 1,000:1 contrast ratio and 2ms response time.
The Dell SX2210T has touch and multitouch features like panning, zooming, flicking, scrolling, etc. which come to life on a Windows 7 system. You can use either your finger(s) or a stylus to operate the touch screen features. Many of the touch features are customizable and many of those options can be accessed from the monitor’s control panel.
Unfortunatlely, not all of the touch screen options work with all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, so pay attention to those details in the product specs before you shell out for what otherwise looks like a beautiful monitor.
Price: $399.00
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)
Jay Freeman founded the Cydia app store for iPhones and iPod Touches about 5 months ago, specifically for all those applications that Apple has decided not to accept into their app store. Just one caveat, you need to jailbreak your iPhone/Touch.
One estimate says that 4 million iPhone users have jailbroken their phones so that it works with more than just the Apple App Store (among other things). Now, you know what to do if you want that Google Voice application!
I just wonder when Apple is going to bring the collective legal hammer to bear…
Zensify is an app available for both iPhone and iPod Touch that brings together all your social networking sites in one, easy to view page enabling you to view all your social network updates simultaneously without having to load each page individually.
Currently only available for iPhone and iPod, if you dig a little deeper to the sole investors of Zensify – Ipex – they say that other mobile platforms will be supported later this year. Stay tuned.
Truphone now has a version of their app for the iPod Touch.
Hmm… how many people actually have a Touch? Wouldn’t they have just gone in the whole way and snagged an iPhone?
