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How to tell the difference between a capacitive and resistive touch screen? The capacitive is the one that your technology-avoiding mum can use without being taught how. The resistive is the one you have to teach her to press down. And watch in frustration on how she struggles to push down and slide to move things around. Try to use a capacitive screen for a couple of weeks and then switch to resistive. It's an absolute nightmare. In my experience, going from resistive to capacitive is almost painless simply because it's more intuitive.

I see resistive screens as a leftover relic from the PDA days, where stylus was the input tool. For phones, one-handed intuitive operation demands capacitive screens or well trained nails. I might switch back to Nokia because of this phone offering capacitive. It's a major feature for me.
Wow.. this looks like a buildup to the most successful buzz building leak ever! People dying, corrupt Chinese officials, and greedy megacorporations. It has everything!
HD on a 7" screen??? LOL
Well judging by the "accuracy" in Iraq. Maybe that's a sign these satellites are already dropping. :)
2010? Then don't worry. Most of us will turn into flesh and taco eating zombies by the swine flu when it hits us big time this autumn. The Aporkalypse is upon us.
Where on earth is this place? Greenland?
Looks cool, but how much does it weigh?
8 megapixel geotagging. Sweet!
I'm very pleased to see TomTom's purchase stopped, and in the long-run I believe this will be better for Tele Atlas shareholders.

Both Navteq and Tele Atlas are suppliers of map data to lots of GPS makers. Mio, Magellan, Navman, Garmin, Medion, Navigon, etc. Competition between the two map providers and all their customers is the reason why GPS prices has gone down from $1000 back in 2004, to $199 this year.

With Nokia taking control of Navteq and TomTom taking control of Tele Atlas, we could soon end up with a duopoly in not only map data, but also in hardware. Something that would not be healthy for the development of mobile navigation services. We need competition to make sure pedestrian navigation and other future GPS services get up and running at a reasonable price.
It's the new entry-level GPS models from Mio. Moov 200 and Moov 300. 'Luhen' is not on the final device.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"All of these new nettops have me intrigued. I'm looking for a small, quiet and cheap PC to replace my aging tower in my home office, and all it really needs to do is load Microsoft Office, check email and surf the web. Is there a particular nettop that's better (or a better value) than another? I know it's a rather new segment, but hopefully someone has taken a chance on one already. Thanks!"
 

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