Daily Archives: August 14, 2009

HTC Files Patent for Capacitive Stylus with Resistive Accuracy

Though capacitive displays are generally regarded as the easier-to-use technology for mobile touchscreens, their finger-friendliness comes at a dear price: accuracy. Because capacitive tech is incompatible with traditional styli, you’re stuck fudging things with your fat digits or settling for a high-tech finger alternative that arguably creates as many problems as it solves. Don’t worry, though — HTC feels your pain, and it seems like they’re looking to keep the classic stylus in the game as the company’s lineup makes the inevitable transition to capacitive over the coming years. A new patent application describes a stylus with some sort of magnetically charged tip — at first, we thought that sounded suspiciously like what Wacom does for its tablets, but unlike Wacom’s tech, this would function with a traditional, seemingly unmodified capacitive display. It’s funny how we’ve all written off styli in the past couple years and now we’ve got HTC over here doing everything it can to save ‘em — but hey, if this means we’re going to get the best of both worlds, we’re all for it.

source: Engadget.com

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HTC Leo Rendered Again — Maybe by HTC, More Likely by Fans

So here’s what we know about the Leo with some certainty: it’s going to be awesomely high-end. Other than that, though, the sky’s the limit; no spec is too wild, no physical design too outlandish until we actually get some official information (or at least some really solid leaks). We wouldn’t call these latest renders “solid” by any stretch — in fact, we’re willing to bet it’s the result of a daydreamer with some graphic design background — but we want to believe, especially since the front is basically consistent with what we’ve seen previously. Imagine a rounded-off Touch HD with WinMo 6.5, a 1GHz Snapdragon, and a 5 megapixel cam accompanied by two high-output LEDs. We love the stylish “Pro.Three” branding (and we guess we’re going to forgive the “lorem ipsum” gibberish beneath it since this is a rough, unbranded render), but there are a few holes in this story: for one, we still don’t know how this dovetails with Firestone; two, the Touch Pro2 just came out, so we’re not sure why they’d release a device with the conflicting “Pro.Three” name so soon thereafter, particularly in a different form factor; and three, this might make more sense as one of HTC’s inaugural WinMo 7 devices. Given the rumored pie-in-the-sky October availability date, we’ll get this sorted out soon enough.

source: Engadget.com

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Online Store Under Maintanence for SSL Certification Installation. We Apologize for Any Inconveniences.

We are constantly doing improvement to the website in order to provide our valued customers with the safest and most reliable shopping experience.

To do so, our company is installing a SSL Certificate to our website

https://www.cellufans.com

 

For those of you not famaliar with SSl Certificate, here is a small explanation quoted from Webopedia.com

SSL is short for Secure Socket Layer , a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with https: instead of http:.

Another protocol for transmitting data securely over the World Wide Web is Secure HTTP (S-HTTP). Whereas SSL creates a secure connection between a client and a server, over which any amount of data can be sent securely, S-HTTP is designed to transmit individual messages securely. SSL and S-HTTP, therefore, can be seen as complementary rather than competing technologies. Both protocols have been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard.

 

Downtime for our onlinestore estimated by our webmasters is approximately 1-2 days.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.  Please check back later.

 

 

Best regards,

 

Cellphone Depot, Inc.

Management Team

 

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