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JVC intros KDX-AV77 touchscreen car head unit

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Robin

Not being a fan of taking the control panel off your radio every time you leave the car, I used to have a Sony with a blank face, which swivelled when you wanted to use the controls.

This JVC is fully touch screen, allowing the same functionality.

Apparently it senses if your hand is near it, so you can break screensaver and get to the controls.

Has Palm done it?

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Robin

The new Palm Pre looks very awesome: smaller than an iphone, slideable keyboard (I love that keyboard, it’s very very good) and an OS which seems slicker than Apple’s. Other than that it seems to have all the prerequisite bits and bobs, such as wifi, gprs, reasonabley poor camera, gps, bluetooth, 480×320 display.

Contact management is done in Synergy. This polls your contacts from multiple sources (a bit like semantic web), such as facebook, your contacts list, outlook, your calendar, and integrates them in one place.

Apps can be created for the new webOS using just javascript, HTML and CSS.

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