macsimumnews.com — You hreard it here first! None-Touch!! Scrolling without actually touching the touch-screen. You hover your finger over the display and a virtual scroll wheel appears, you don't touch it, you just start scrolling and scrolling happens. You can touch the screen, but you don't have to if you want to keep the screen smudge free...COOL!!!
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missflibblesJul 21, 2006
Ooooooooooooo.
irelandJul 21, 2006Submitter
My Motorola Razr is basically a piece of s**t, but you know what? The little screen on the front is not scratched one bit, you know why? Cause it's made of glass, or at least covered with glass. Are you hearin' what I'm saying Steve?
paulryan21Jul 21, 2006
I'd like a pony too !
bazacJul 21, 2006
Steady on with that complex vocabulary, Wordsworth.
inkswampJul 21, 2006
As I understand it, when a company files a patent, they cannot use the technology in a consumer product for 12 months (I think, don't quote me) after the filing date otherwise the patent may not be approved. Apple made that goof with the iPod's interface and Creative stepped in to file patents for the idea (which is where all that junk about Creative suing Apple comes from.) Sept. 2005 would suggest that Apple is probably planning to use this technology in a product no sooner than two months from now.
vermifaxJul 21, 2006
I love quintessential Apple products! :-D
ki85squaredJul 21, 2006
If WiFi is added to the iPod, wouldn't that make it vulnerable to attack via wireless network? I don't want my mp3 player to be randomly hacked and then rendered useless or my music deleted. Let's also not get carried away here. Mobile devices should remain separate, IMO. Media players, phones, mobile web... all of them should remain separate. Devices that serve more than one purpose have never been amazingly popular.
delmonteJul 24, 2006
Yeaaaahhh riiiight..." 1. It'll get scratched up beyond belief "How can it becomes any more scratched than other iPods if you don't have to touch it?I got an iPod nano since last november, I use it almost every day, without a case, and the screen is still perfectly readable. The scratch thing is way overblown. At worse a 5$ solution will repair most of the scratches easily."2. If it drops, the screen will most likely break ( I had a 4th gen Ipod that i dropped on carpet, the screen cracked all over the place). "Oh so because you found a way to crack the screen on a carpet means that others will too?"3. They should spend more money on making an external power button, because on my new ipod, sometimes the "on/off switch" and sleep mode options don't work."External power button? on/off switch? What are you talking about? And if the sleep mode options don't work why don't you contact Apple? And what are those sleep mode options anyway?