Monday 20 February 2012

Next iPhone Coming Sep/Oct?    [ 20-02-2012 19:28 ]

Author: Irina Turina   Source: via BGR     Translation by: Paul Smith     

The next generation of the iPhone is obviously the subject of many a rumour, just as every iPhone before it has also been. However, ever since Apple rocked the boat last year by breaking with their traditional summer release window there has been the additional speculation over exactly when the latest iPhone would appear. Some recent chatter on the web seemed to indicate that Apple might be moving back to a summer release schedule and that the iPhone 4S was a bit of an oddity. However, Japanese website Macotakara is reporting that the iPhone 5 will be out and about come autumn, just as the 4S was. They are citing an unnamed source as saying the device will be launched in either September or October and that this will mean the iPhone release window is firmly moved to the same time frame each year.

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New App To Help The Blind Text    [ 20-02-2012 18:17 ]

Author: Irina Turina   Source: BBC     Translation by: Paul Smith     

A new app based upon Braille is set to help blind people use their touchscreen devices more easily. At least that is the hope of the team from Georgia Tech who are behind the Brailletouch app. The team claims that their system is up to 6 times faster than current methods for inputing text without using sight. Brailletouch is controlled using six finger, but importantly does not require that the hands be moving, which, as lead researcher Mario Romero explained is important:

Users who know how to type Braille well never move their hands. When users hold the phone they hold the phone with the screen facing away from them in landscape mode. They wrap the index, middle and ring finger in each hand around the phone. It's not like the QWERTY keyboard where you move up and down. That's why this thing works - we can get away with only six keys.

Brailletouch will first be released for Apple and Android devices and will be free to download as well as being open source. There is some hope amongst the team that it might even catch on with people who aren't blind as a means to type without the need to look at the screen.

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