http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Another rip off.
Next article please.]]>Feb 15th 2008 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
you must be an apple fan boy :) ]]>Feb 15th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Seems like a lot of haters. Iphone was the first of its kind so it's pretty hard to sit back and say anything that comes after the first isn't attempting to profit off the success of the first.

Anyway is any of it relevant to the product in question. Apple came first and that means competition and competition means innovation and I think this phone and its ui look pretty good. I can't wait until some real iphone competition comes out maybe apple will start making better attempts to give iphone owners what they are asking for.
]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/what exactly did the iPhone do first?

The only things I can think of are their use of an OSX derivative as the operating system, and a proprietary METHOD of implementing the touchscreen.

Every other feature had been done before -- including other touchscreens.

So, again, what exactly did they do first?]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Touch screens are going to become just another universal technology. When the first flip phones come out, everybody was amazed, but now they're old hat. So just because Apple has made a user-friendly touch interface, don't put down everything else as imitation. If we encourage competition, we might see something better and easier to use than the iPhone. I would love a phone made by Samsung or somebody like that, with a full-face touchscreen, running on an open 700mhz Google network. It might not happen with those companies, but it'll happen.]]>Feb 15th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 16th 2008 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/It is as inevitable as a GUI for computers was once graphics were fast/good enough.

And as inevitable as the US starting a war at least once every 15 years when the next batch of triggerhappy kids have grown to a certain age.
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This is like offering the worst of both worlds! You have no tactile feedback AND you're forced to use a "dumb phone" number pad to type with. I can't think of any way they could make this worse.]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
Sure this might be a bit of an iPhone ripoff, but until i can get the real deal iPhone on Sprint, i'd be HAPPY with something that is a decent ripoff.

I have the Samsung m610, which many would say is a RAZR ripoff, but it's actually way better than the RAZR in almost every way. ...though the RAZR wasn't made by Apple, so the chances of Samsung 1-upping the iPhone are a little more slim.


]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
This is a jab at the iphone, I like the iphone alot. I just think it's expensive and the security guards in Apple stores make me feel like a criminal when I'm trying out new things.]]>Feb 15th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
Although I agree that a full qwerty keyboard is much nicer, I just noticed that Engadget's earlier story on this phone stated that it has "input feedback via vibration".]]>Feb 15th 2008 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
If you like this one, you may be in luck, check out the Samsung SPH-M800...hopefully it'll have the same UI and it is coming to Sprint sometime soon.

I just got the Touch (great device incidently, especially coming from a Palm), but I think I would have waited for the M800 had I seen this UI and known earlier when it was supposed to come out...

And yes, SERO friggin' rocks big time. I have no problems dropping a few hundred for a phone, but I absolutely refuse to pay excessively monthly for it...]]>Feb 15th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
I'm actually really most interested in seeing if they get Android going on these older HTC phones.]]>Feb 15th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 17th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
I applaud them for doing what others are scared to try and helping technology move forward as a whole.]]>Feb 15th 2008 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
Before the iPhone hit, phone manufacturers didn't think we'd like full touchscreens. It's amazing how quickly people forget that the idea was initially a laughing stock.

You had a few willing to take a chance like LG with the Prada but that was meant to be a low volume fashion product. It barely made any noise until the iPhone was unveiled because everyone was pessimistic about the idea of controlling a handset with your fingers. LG's gimpy interface sure wouldn't have helped.

People can tout "Prada came first" and "touchscreens have been around for years" all they'd like. It was Apple who made these companies get off their asses and bring touch to the mainstream.]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Apple was smart into taking the touchscreen phone and trying to push it into the consumer market. Before the iphone most touchscreen phones were for business users. Then came the iphone and everyone SEEMINGLY became crazy for touchscreens. If you look at the sales numbers it actually didn't sell that much compared to all phones. However, the numbers were impressive when you looked only at smartphone numbers. That's where their strategy is brillant. By appealing to mainstream consumers their sales numbers will seem big in comparison with the mainly business oriented smartphones.
Seeing this image of success, the rest of the mobile market would want to jump on the same bandwagon as they did when the razr became a success.
But enough with calling every touchscreen phone after the iphone a "ripoff". The UI is different and nothing in engineering was copied. That's why people are saying the Apple didn't invent the touchscreen as some of you Apple fanboys can't seem to understand. There is no need for reverse engineering. They are just taking the basic idea of creating a consumer based touchscreen phone and going with it.
And the iphone was hardly the "revolution" that the ipod was. So far there is no indication that it had made much of an impact on how cell phones are today. It is a great phone, but it's significance is just majorly over hyped.]]>Feb 16th 2008 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Apple was smart into taking the touchscreen phone and trying to push it into the consumer market. Before the iphone most touchscreen phones were for business users. Then came the iphone and everyone SEEMINGLY became crazy for touchscreens. If you look at the sales numbers it actually didn't sell that much compared to all phones. However, the numbers were impressive when you looked only at smartphone numbers. That's where their strategy is brillant. By appealing to mainstream consumers their sales numbers will seem big in comparison with the mainly business oriented smartphones.
Seeing this image of success, the rest of the mobile market would want to jump on the same bandwagon as they did when the razr became a success.
But enough with calling every touchscreen phone after the iphone a "ripoff". The UI is different and nothing in engineering was copied. That's why people are saying the Apple didn't invent the touchscreen as some of you Apple fanboys can't seem to understand. There is no need for reverse engineering. They are just taking the basic idea of creating a consumer based touchscreen phone and going with it.
And the iphone was hardly the "revolution" that the ipod was. So far there is no indication that it had made much of an impact on how cell phones are today. It is a great phone, but it's significance is just majorly over hyped.]]>Feb 16th 2008 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 16th 2008 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
no on-screen qwerty = weaksauce]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
I might be alone, but who would it hurt if the phone had the option? it could even default to T9 for the kiddies, but let me choose QWERTY.

I wouldn't think that the phone lacks QWERTY, just that this guy didn't show it. ...then again, i assumed the HTC Touch would have a decent finger QWERTY and it doesn't (at least it won't let you use it when you're texting....)]]>Feb 15th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/Feb 15th 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
as far as i know, there isn't a single mobile device, anywhere, commercially available, that uses multitouch.

and as Apple won't give me a damn CDMA iPhone for Sprint, i'm hoping the rip-off artists can eventually come up with something good.

but yeah, for the record, this thing isn't multi-touch.]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
Exactly, how does multi-touch do anything different than what touchscreens have been doing for a long time? When would you need to use more than 1 input, besides resizing photos?

Tell me that. I would love to hear how the multi-touch is actually useful. ]]>Feb 15th 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
Since 1.1.3 you can also truly type w/2 fingers contacting the screen simultaneously, that screws up single-touch touchscreens.]]>Feb 16th 2008 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
tell these manufacturers stop being cheap and put a faster arm processor in these phones. apple made a good decision with the 620mhz. little to no lag.]]>Feb 15th 2008 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/samsungs-new-touchwiz-ui-gets-previewed-on-video/
I've not yet seen another phone that can match it, unfortunately.
I presume they use the same technology as their desktop OSX and offload to a graphics accelerator :)]]>Feb 15th 2008 3:10PM