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Echostar's new DVR UI kills the number pad, long live the touch pad

Echostar's new DVR UI kills the number pad, long live the touch pad
Ben Drawbaugh
Ben Drawbaugh|January 8, 2009 1:19 PM

At the Echostar press event today the new 922 UI and remote was unveiled and what do you know the number pad was replaced with a touch pad. So now instead of direct dialing a number (pictured after the jump) with a touch pad which is similar to a touch pad on most laptops. We're not sure how we feel about this, it has promise, but we admit it'll be hard to give up the numbers.

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