eK-gadgets info

Talk about flipping phones: the IcePhone flips once, and, yeah, twice! What do you say about all this? I don’t even know what to call it! It’s a sort of complicated smartphone. Let’s look at the features of this IcePhone:

• a fully featured touchscreen
• a 3.1 MP camera
• micro-notebook, including a desktop and a handheld mode.
• large landscape screen
• full QWERTY keyboard
• mouse
• Windows Mobile
• satellite navigation via GPS
• emergency first aid software
• medical history storage and a 24/7 international helpline.
• microSD
• Bluetooth and 3G support
• emailing and messaging.

The first multi-touch laptop was bound to be released sooner or later, especially with Windows Mobile 7 being developed to support multi-touch. And it was HP, not Apple, that managed to pull it off. The TouchSmart tx2 will get you multi-touch two-finger control but there’s a catch to it. The whole multi-touch thing works only with the HP MediaSmart suite of applications.The TouchSmart tx2 is a 12.1 inch laptop which can get you up to 8GB of RAM. An AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core processor will power it all up and you can opt for storage space anywhere from 160 to 500GB. The WXGA screen has an embedded N-trig digitizer which will help you do all that multi-touching. No word on availability and pricing yet, but we’ll keep you posted!

With the first multi-touch laptop already out, we’re going to wait for the rest of them to appear.