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Nokia N900 Promo Spotted, No AT&T Version

The Nokia N900 Internet Tablet seems to be one of the greatest devices the Espoo-based Finnish mobile phone maker unveiled to the world during the ongoing year. The handset boasts a 3.5-inch WVGA resistive touchscreen and a 5-megapixel photo snapper with dual-LED flash, and packs an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, while run...

1 September 2009
06:46 GMT

Motorola's Android Handsets to Get a 'Blur' UI

Mobile phone maker Motorola has big plans when it comes to Android, something that most people already know. The company already announced that it intended to come to the market with two smartphones powered by Google's operating system before the end of the year, and it already launched a few programs aimed at h...

10 August 2009
04:30 GMT

Nokia to Bring New UI to Symbian S60

According to the latest news on the Internet, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is getting ready to come to the market with a new face for its Symbian S60 5th Edition-based mobile devices. The move won't happen in the near future, it seems, but it will be made soon enough, with the first handset to sport it expec...

1 July 2009
06:41 GMT

Windows Mobile UI Design Concepts Spotted

Microsoft is set to release the next iteration of its Windows Mobile platform, the WinMo 6.5, in the near future, and it already promised a series of new design improvements compared to the previously available versions. Some of these graphical enhancements have already been spotted, yet there are also some that have...

30 June 2009
09:42 GMT

HTC to Bring Sense to Its Existing Phones

Mobile phone maker HTC Corporation recently released into the wild a brand new user interface, designed for its Android-based HTC Hero, the third mobile phone the company brings under Google's operating system. Since the new UI looks more than appealing, those who already own an HTC Android-powered phone have al...

29 June 2009
12:41 GMT

Photos of HTC's New TouchFLO 3D 2.5 Emerge

HTC seems determined to bring a new look to all of its mobile phones, and, besides releasing a brand new user interface for its Android-based handsets, the company also came up with a new UI for the Windows Mobile devices, namely with the new TouchFLO 3D 2.5 (codenamed Manila 2.5). There is no official word on the ne...

29 June 2009
05:28 GMT

Sense, the New User Interface from HTC

Taiwanese-based mobile phone maker HTC announced today the release of its third Android-powered mobile phone, the HTC Hero, and also unveiled to the world its newest user interface that shipped with the device, the HTC Sense. According to the company, the new UI is meant to offer a simpler and easier phone navigation...

24 June 2009
11:54 GMT

HTC Hero's Android Build Caught on Video

The Android 1.5 platform, also referred to as the Cupcake update, hasn't been released into the wild in the United States, and there are a lot of users who are eagerly waiting for it to surface, at least to make an idea of the features that it is set to come with. However, it seems that they can have a taste of ...

21 May 2009
02:44 GMT

Windows Mobile 7 Caught on Video

It seems that Microsoft has recently come up with a video of a yet unreleased version of its Windows Mobile operating system. Supposedly, the video, which we need to mention that comes from the Microsoft Strategy under the title “Software + Services,” shows the user interface of the platform, and the cent...

6 April 2009
05:46 GMT

Palm Kills TealOS Effective Today

According to the latest news on the Web, Palm has recently stepped up and put an end to the nice-looking TealOS, the user interface that was able to make any old Palm handset running under the Palm OS look just like the upcoming Pre with what its webOS was supposed to look like. TealPoint Software has just published ...

30 March 2009
06:49 GMT

More Windows Mobile 7 Images Surface

Some more screenshots with the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 operating system have made it into the wild, allowing us to have another look at the nice features that Microsoft is preparing for us with the next-generation mobile platform slated for release in the spring of 2010. The new photos with the Windows Mobile 7 us...

27 March 2009
07:58 GMT

Windows Mobile 7 Screenshots Leaked

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer announced a while ago that the Redmond software company would release to the market the Windows Mobile 7 operating system sometime next year, probably in the second quarter, and we also know that the platform is supposed to be something totally different from what we've seen up...

25 March 2009
05:32 GMT

Sneak Peek: Visual Studio 2010 Graphical User Interface

Microsoft is not only cooking the next iteration of Windows client and server operating systems, but also the next version of development solutions tailored to the Windows platforms. The Redmond company already announced that the successor of Visual Studio 2008 would be Visual Studio 2010, and the VSLive! Conference ...

25 February 2009
06:17 GMT

Samsung Unveils Its Revamped TouchWiz UI

Samsung seems ready to bring a lot of new goodies at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, and the list starts with a revamped TouchWiz user interface that will be showcased at the conference, probably on the Samsung S8300 UltraTOUCH which the Korean mobile phone maker unveiled yesterday. Along with the...

10 February 2009
02:31 GMT

Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 to Be Showcased at MWC 2009

Spb Software, a worldwide leading Windows Mobile application developer, has announced today that it plans to showcase its new Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 16-18. According to the company, its software is able to set a new standard when it comes to user interfaces for mobile...

4 February 2009
05:21 GMT

Photo of LG KM900 Arena Touchscreen Phone Leaked

Touchscreen fanboys have one more reason to rejoice today. Yesterday, we learned about Toshiba's TG01 Windows Mobile-powered touchscreen mobile phone, which comes with a wide range of multimedia features, and now we hear that LG will also come up with a high-end touchscreen handset. The newly spotted device fr...

4 February 2009
04:09 GMT

Phone Interfaces Seem Difficult to 85% of Users

A recent study has showed that mobile phone users do not always appreciate the fact that their handsets come with rather too many features they would have to browse through. Although mobile phone manufacturers continue to include more complex feature-sets into their handsets, especially into smartphones, sometimes us...

21 January 2009
08:24 GMT

The Windows 7 Desktop and UI – Customization and Flexibility

The Windows 7 desktop and graphical user interface are right on track to delivering an evolution compared to Windows Vista, and in this context, provide a high degree of customization and flexibility, superior to what is available with the successor of Windows XP. But at the same time, Microsoft is not going to satis...

6 October 2008
12:18 GMT

The Evolution of Windows 7 User Interface(s) - New Code Runtime and API

Windows 7 will feature not only a redesigned GUI, but also new user interface guidelines, a fresh API along with an interface component, but also a native code runtime and the ability to use markup in order to develop UIs. Even as early as the first public demonstration of Windows 7, at the end of May 2008, and earli...

12 September 2008
04:59 GMT

Java ME Lightweight User Interface Toolkit Goes Open

Yesterday, Sun Microsystems released the source code for the Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) under the GPL+Classpath Exception. The company took this step in order to combat the fragmentation trends in the mobile development world and to enable developers to create user interfaces that would behave the sam...

15 August 2008
08:15 GMT

Introducing the Next Generation Windows 7 User Interface

One thing is clear, although starting from the summer of 2007 and ending in the first half of this year, the main focus for Microsoft has been building Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3, in terms of the Windows client the company did much more than just service packs. In the background of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, Micros...

28 May 2008
05:23 GMT

Good Looking iArchiver 1.3 Released, Adds Encryption Support

The headline has already given it away, but we want to say it properly and without any word restrictions. iArchiver 1.3 has a fresh new look, it now fits better in the Dock and Finder toolbar, and adds support for new formats including .cab and .arj files. A trial version of the software is available.If, for example,...

23 April 2008
16:06 GMT

100% Natural - The Future of Windows User Interfaces

One key aspect of computing in particular and technology in general is the end user interaction. So far, when it comes down to computers, the keyboard plus mouse is the traditional and established model of interaction. But without a doubt at this stage in the evolution of computing both the mouse and keyboard are bec...

10 March 2008
15:57 GMT

Windows 7 - the Evolution of User Interfaces, Beyond Vista SP1 and XP SP3

Microsoft is hard at work building the next iteration of Windows. Developed under the label of Windows 7, after Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, dropped the practice of using codenames and turned the Windows project onto product numbers, the successor of Windows Vist...

20 February 2008
12:55 GMT

Windows Vista at the Heart of the Evolution Towards Natural User Interfaces

Microsoft has placed Windows Vista at the heart of the evolution towards natural user interfaces. With traditional content continually being digitized, a shift in the way the user interacts with digital materials comes inherently. The Redmond company is not the only company that is trying to keep up with the flow of ...

21 November 2007
05:25 GMT

Feast Your Eyes on the Next Windows Vista User Interface - Video Demonstration

Windows Aero is the apex of Microsoft's offerings for graphical user interfaces in Windows Vista, and indeed a clear indication of the efforts the company poured into building a high-end user experience. But the future of the GUI will take Microsoft well beyond transparency and glass effects into new limits of i...

20 June 2007
11:11 GMT


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