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- Touch Vision uses a Nexus S and Augmented Reality to control TV screens
- Android Community Weekly: September 10, 2011
- Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman teardown photos posted at FCC
- Samsung Galaxy S II AT&T Sign Up Page Live with Details
- TouchPal Android keyboard alternative out of Beta, Free for Limited Time
| Touch Vision uses a Nexus S and Augmented Reality to control TV screens Posted: 11 Sep 2011 10:03 AM PDT Using our smartphones or other methods for controlling TV and computer screens is nothing new. We’ve been doing it for a while with various methods but today we have something completely new, unique, and different. The guys from Teehan+Lax have designed a neat little application using augmented reality to control what is displayed on TV screens using their trusty Google Nexus S.
The augmented reality type app is called Touch Vision and while the way it actually works may be confusing, it is pretty impressive either way. The application is still in a very early beta stage but they’ve provided a video giving us a little insight on this awesome and unique project so check it out below. Touch Vision enables touch interaction in a very fun way through many different TV and screen surfaces using AR and the Nexus S camera. Shown in the video above they’ve also incorporated this fancy screen manipulation on more than one screen at a time for a truly unique experience. With something like this for much larger screens in a theater or a billboard the possibilities once fine tuned could be endless. For now whatever highly custom tools and code they are using are being kept under a tight lid for the application and I can’t wait to see what else comes from this project. It reminds me of something from Ironman and Tony Stark only with less Hollywood of course. Check out more information on the development of this system also at Teehanlax. [via Engadget] )
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| Android Community Weekly: September 10, 2011 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 05:26 PM PDT Welcome back to another roundup of tech news here in this issue of Android Community Weekly! Sunday, AT&T finally released the HTC Jetstream with a pricetag of $849.99. The present tablet market is extremely competitive, and I foresee this unsubsidized price dropping in the near future. Later, we saw the newly unlocked HTC Sensation sporting a very smooth 1.56GHz overcloked kernel. CyanogenMod 7 nightly builds will be available for the device very shortly.
The HTC Flyer was spotted running it’s own update to Honeycomb, and instructions for installing the RUU were also included. I have to admit, HTC Sense UI running over Android 3.2 Honeycomb looks extremely slick. Monday, the Sony Tablet S became available for pre-order to ship September 16. The Tablet S will retail for $499.99; be sure to check out our official Android Community review on the device. If you’re a tablet owner and were wondering when Google Voice would finally become tablet-friendly, then you’re in luck! The new Google Voice update brings tablet support along with a few new UI changes. Sleek Audio sent us over some of their CT7 Custom IEM Headphones, and Cory Gunther has put them to the test. Though this doesn’t have much to do with Android, I’m sure all of you use headphones with your smartphone from time to time. Tuesday, we came across the KT Spider Concept – an all in one tablet, phone, and laptop. Could this concept be the future of many devices to come? I sure hope so. The HP TouchPad Android port has been moving along at an exceptional rate. Even more so, the CyanogenMod 7 build is almost complete! WebOS is smooth, but Android has the support and applications we need. Sense UI 3.5 ports have hit both the HTC EVO 4G and the HTC Incredible this week over on XDA Developers, and I’m sure many more devices will follow suit. Verizon’s Motorola DROID Bionic hit the streets this week and we’ve got an excellent unboxing/hands-on and official review available. With only two bars of 4G LTE service, we were hitting 13Mbps! Hopefully, we’ll get to see Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on it soon. Or will it skip straight to the newly announced Android Jelly Bean? Though IFA 2011 has come and gone, if you missed any coverage last week the Android Community IFA 2011 Wrap-Up will bring you back up to speed. Finally, don’t forget to check out the NFL 2011 application review by Cory Gunther. It’s free for all Verizon Wireless subscribers for the entire season! )
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| Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman teardown photos posted at FCC Posted: 10 Sep 2011 03:19 PM PDT Over the past year or so, Sony Ericsson has been bringing their A-game to the Android smartphone and oddities market, and with the combination of the forever-famous Walkman brand name, they’ve got a good chance of continuing to increase business built on the Google mobile OS platform. What’s up today is an FCC listing of the Sony Ericsson media player known as Live with Walkman, a long name for an interestingly quite possibly awesome future mobile device running Android. Look like the originally announced bright white to you?
Everyone likes to see the insides of their handsets before they see the outsides in action, right? Have a look right here and see some guts! Sony Ericsson has never been known for bad looking insides, and they certainly don’t disappoint with several layers of green, black, and gold. What we know about this device right this moment is that it’s got a 5 megapixel camera on the back, a VGA camera on the front, a 3.2-inch 480 x 320 pixel resolution TFT LCD display, more than likely a 1.2 or 1.5 GHz single-core processor inside, and a big fat slew of Sony and Sony Ericsson-specifically optimized apps and sound-related features.
This device has been announced to be coming out inside the fourth quarter of 2011, all of its features appearing to sort of pale in comparison to the tip we’ve reported on the Sony Ericsson Nozomi 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and a fantastically dense-pixeled display. We’ve also got word that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S coming inside September, and though we’re almost certainly not going to be getting Ice Cream Sandwich any time soon, Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread should be pretty much a fix.         [via FCC] )
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| Samsung Galaxy S II AT&T Sign Up Page Live with Details Posted: 10 Sep 2011 02:52 PM PDT The team at AT&T are now officially ramping up their online attack for the Samsung Galaxy S II, posting this week their first sign-up page for email updates on the device, orange, black, and blue flying everywhere. Mostly orange though, of course, as AT&T has in recent months been pushing a massively orange-looking ad campaign to work in a rather aesthetically pleasing way with their heavily Blue and White globe logo. Look nice to you here? You betcha. It’d be rather tough to make this device look less than amazing, when you get down to it.
What this first page reveals is not just a whole heck of a lot of new information that we didn’t already know, the fact that this is the only 4.3-inch Samsung Galaxy S II scheduled for release in the USA (the rest being 4.5-inches) with the hot brightness and anywhere visibility of the Super AMOLED Plus display. Inside you’ll find a high-powered dual-core processor which on this page remains unnamed and un-clocked, and both Slim Design and Brilliant Media are pumped up as high-class features. Record and watch 1080 HP video and take 8 megapixel photos with the rear-facing camera amongst a slew of top-level features. You can access the AT&T page at att.com and after you’ve signed up come on back and have a look at the hands-on content we’ve already got prepared for you courtesy of AT&T and Samsung in NYC back on the 30th of August – check out our hands-on with the ATT Galaxy S II and our quick look at the AT&T Featured Apps App for the Galaxy S II. Check out the GSII AT&T Galaxy S II hands-on here: Then the AT&T Galaxy S II Hands-on video: We’ll see the final product soon! )
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| TouchPal Android keyboard alternative out of Beta, Free for Limited Time Posted: 10 Sep 2011 02:00 PM PDT If there’s one thing you can count on for Android, it’s an ever-increasing selection of 3rd-party keyboard alternatives. Today we’ve got word that developers at Cootek have upgraded their TouchPal keyboard out of Beta, available now for free on the Android Market. Know before we go any further that this is instantly going to be compared to SWYPE as it’s got what that app made famous on the Android platform: moving your finger across the keypad, collecting letters for words as you go. With this comes predictive text and an amazingly intelligent engine connecting all elements for the potential to “type” text as fast as possible on mobile platforms. In addition to that, this app, unlike some similar keypads on the market right this moment, is free during this first release leading up to a paid version on October 31, 2011.
This again is the first time you’re able to get access to this app without having contacted the developers directly to test, this version is solid and ready to go right this moment, and a giant list of improvements has been released to go along with this pre-cost yet full-release app. See if you can spot the differences between this and previously released keyboards: • Unique patented technologies of TouchPal Keyboard After having tested it very briefly just today I can tell you that this is certainly a professionally produced app that’s been created to compete directly with both the current stock keyboards on all versions of Android as well as 3rd party apps on the market today. As this app is completely free right this second, you simply MUST check it out if you’re looking for a new keyboard solution. Check the app out right now on the [Android Market]         )
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