And equally as impressive was pinch-to-zoom, which responded immediately to our touch with nary an instance of checkerboarding.
Performance-wise, its lack of a dual-core setup is heavily apparent, since there was a considerable lag between our touch input and onscreen effect.
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This quirk also extended to the use of the navigation buttons at the base of the screen, leading us to believe the phone hadn't registered our touch.
Or maybe, newspapers will just become a massive indulgence, a chance for us all to take a break and instead of tapping on our touch screens, enjoy the feel and sound of a crisp newspaper as we leaf through the news at our leisure.
This acquisition complements our high touch portfolio of radio, digital, mobile and live event assets and helps us to balance our media footprint from local-to-national.
And to those who are serving in far-flung places today, when your tour ends, when you see our flag, when you touch our soil, you will be home in an America that is forever here for you just as you've been there for us.
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Second, as Commander-in-Chief, the issues that you have mentioned touch on our national security, touch on critical issues of war and peace, and they're classified for a reason -- because they're sensitive and because the people involved may, in some cases, be in danger if they're carrying out some of these missions.
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Even though apps, mobile phones and 3D printing have made things easier for us and gives more people access to activities they might not normally engage in, what happens to our psyche when we no longer know what it feels like to sculpt an object, feel clay between our fingers or touch objects to acknowledge our existence.
We're also encouraged by early interest in our new Windows 8 touch portfolio and the opportunities it creates for our commercial and consumer businesses.
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My hunch is that it is because these numbers do not touch our souls.
"There's this attitude that don't you dare touch our pensions or money, " the mayor tells me.
Getting on the floor with kids, playing games and hanging out can all help us meet our need for touch.
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During the quarter, we demonstrated stability in our feature phone business, and enhanced our competitiveness with the introduction of our first full touch Asha devices.
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It can touch our hearts with humility.
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Can we ever touch our savings?
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These stories touch our hearts.
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For committed meditators, cultivating this wisdom of seeing clearly is at the very heart of the mindfulness meditation practice that trains us to step out from behind the curtain of our restless minds and touch life directly, getting a full, authentic measure of our experience beyond self-deception and impulsiveness.
"Our goal is to simplify the digital experience across the touch points where our customers already spend their time by making their interactions with Delta easy and intuitive, " said Glen Hauenstein , Delta's executive vice president - Network Planning, Revenue Management and Marketing.
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Further, the weight, texture and hardness of objects we touch affects our opinion of the people and the situation.
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In our mobile phones business, the positive consumer response to our new Asha full touch smartphones translated into strong sales.
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Penda Hair, who is a head of the effort by the NAACP against voter suppression, has been in touch with our people.
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"Our tools will enable touch-tone developers to change into spoken language developers, " said Rick Barchard, director of marketing for Unysis Natural Language, in Malvern, Pa.
That's the theory of the poet who takes groups of men into the woods to bang drums and helps us get in touch with our proud, warlike selves.
What programs do you think should be in place for individuals such as myself to keep in touch with our skills, be in demand, marketable and eventually get hired?
Small businesses like mine have tried to use Facebook in all sorts of ways: attracting new customers, keeping in touch with our existing customers, spreading company news and promoting our brands.
We have been in close touch with our Turkish allies on the events that you described that occurred this morning, and I would refer you to the Turkish government to confirm details.
"We are in touch with our legal counsel about what this theft means for Twitter, the hacker, and anyone who accepts and subsequently shares or publishes these stolen documents, " Stone writes on the site's blog.
Because I've been working down there for nearly a year as the U.N. special envoy, I've been in constant touch with our people through the U.N. on the ground, and you know we lost a lot of our people there -- the largest loss of life in the history of the United Nations on a single day.
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This has been confirmed to us from conversations that we've had with people in Benghazi, including former representatives from the Libya National Council who have been in touch with our representatives and our liaison with them, indicating that in fact the efforts here have made a real difference in terms of the threat that was looming over Benghazi.
"We don't really feel the need to encourage our students to stay in touch, " he says.
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