Jan 08
Echostar’s new DVR UI kills the number pad, long live the touch pad
Posted in: breaking news, BreakingNews, remote, Today's Chili, touchpad, ui
At the Echostar press event today the new 922 UI and remote was unveiled and what do you know the number pad was replaced with a touch pad. So now instead of direct dialing a number you select the numbers on the screen (pictured after the jump) with a touch pad which is similar to a touch pad on most laptops. We’re not sure how we feel about this, it has promise, but we admit it’ll be hard to give up the numbers.
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Echostar’s new DVR UI kills the number pad, long live the touch pad originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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