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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 3rd Jun 2007 21:40 UTC

The big competitor of Apple's iPhone, the LG KE850 (a.k.a. LG Prada), was recently released and our friends over at MobileBurn published a long review with lots of info about the impressive feature phone. Additionally, they also sent us a screenshot of the LG Prada rendering OSNews.

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RE: hmm

by watchingeyes on Sun 3rd Jun 2007 22:56 UTC in reply to "hmm"

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2007-05-04

PS.

Does anyone know if the Prada has multi-touch or if it is just a normal touchscreen? The article probably says, but I almost never READ reviews of phones and other gadgets. I prefer to hit Google Video/Youtube and watch videos (gives you a much better idea IMHO).

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RE[2]: hmm

by kwanbis on Mon 4th Jun 2007 02:43 in reply to "RE: hmm"

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2005-07-06

from the article:

"While the Prada phone doesn't support a multi-touch UI that allows for multiple fingers to interact with the display at the same time, it does allow for simpler interactions such as tapping and dragging."

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RE[3]: hmm

by OSGuy on Mon 4th Jun 2007 13:03 in reply to "RE: hmm"

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2006-01-01

As far as I am aware, the multi touch technology is patented by Apple so it wouldn't have it. I read this somewhere but I lost the link.

Now the interesting thing is, Microsoft's new touch device, the one demonstrated a few days ago, *also* has a multi touch so I don't know if the patent for multi touch applies only for mobile phones or other devices as well.

Edited 2007-06-04 13:04

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RE[4]: hmm

by watchingeyes on Tue 5th Jun 2007 00:27 in reply to "RE[3]: hmm"

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2007-05-04

Microsoft's "Surface" device does NOT use a touchscreen. Instead, it uses cameras. As a result, it likely wouldn't be covered by Apple's patents.

Besides, Microsoft and Apple likely have a patent cross-license anyways.

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RE[4]: hmm

by OSGuy on Mon 4th Jun 2007 13:09 in reply to "RE: hmm"

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2006-01-01

Here is more on multitouch:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=271265

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