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If you had a creeping suspicion that the iPhone-esque phone market wasn’t crowded enough yet — you’re right. Apparently, Philips is about to throw its hat in the ring with a device called the Xenium X800.

The familiar looking unit will sport WiFi, a WQVGA “e2e” (or “edge to edge”) touchscreen, and appears to be running a proprietary OS which looks considerably better than most phones in this class. Sure, it’s heavily knocking off Sony’s XMB and that new BlackBerry OS 4.6, but there are worse offenses that could be made.

 No word on more detailed specs, but you’ll know more when we do. In the meantime, take a look at a few more pics after the break.

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Hold on to your touch panels, folks, as Wacom has just made known its plans to reveal “a major innovation in capacitive touchscreen technology” at next month’s International Society for Information Display Exhibition. The tech, dubbed Reversing Ramped Field Capacitive (RRFC) touch, relies on “reversing ramped electro-static fields” to bring unprecedented precision and “drift-free performance” to touchscreen users. Reportedly, it can be integrated into dual-input applications with the firm’s EMR pen-input solution or can operate on its lonesome on devices that require just a finger touch interface. Of course, there’s way more pizazz to the whole thing than we can cover in this space, but feel free to don your nerd suit and hit the read link if you’re thirsty for more

SOURCE:http:www.wacom.com

LG’s giving our Danish friends a little something to look forward to: the 3-inch 400 x 240 touchscreen T80, which has 4GB of storage, DVB-T and FM tuners, and OGG support (as well as the usual MP3, WMA, MPEG-4, etc.) in a chubby 0.5-inch thick package. We hear it’s priced at a hefty €299 (~$470 US), which might prove a tad prohibitive to sales among the intelligent.source:engadget

Here we have it, confirmation that the second generation Eee PC will in fact feature an 8.9-inch (resistive) touchscreen display. Kevin Lin, ASUS VP of Sales, says that the $500 (starting price) Eee PC will begin shipping in May or June in 8GB to 12GB options with “possible GPS support.” That’s the same time ASUS plans to begin shipping its $200 Eee Dekstop, aka the E-DT. Look, we’re happy with your success with the Eee brand ASUS, but when are we getting our $200 Eee PC?

source:engadget

Energy Sistem is making a play for your DAP dollar with the steel-crafted Inngenio 6000. The player runs a 2.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, with a built-in speaker, 2GB of storage and microSD expansion along for the ride. FM, voice recording, an e-book reader and some games are all included, and you can manage MP3, WMA and XVID playback. It’s available now — at least in Spain — for €90 (about $138 US).

source:engadget