After the iPhone we can expect cellphone manufacturers to depend more on touchscreen technology. The Samsung SCH-W559 looks like an ordinary mid-range cellphone with a keyboard that slides out at the bottom, but aside from the couple or so buttons below the display this baby is all touch control.
Samsung’s innovates on the the usual touchscreen by integrating VibeTonz, a product of Immersion Corporation commonly used as vibrating ringtones. The idea is to give tactile feedback via VibeTonz to the virtual keys. The feedback works both when you’re using your fingers or a stylus.
Hunbae Kim, VP of Samsung is upbeat about touchscreen:
Implementing keypad functions in a touchscreen has allowed Samsung to give its customers a first-class multimedia and messaging experience in a remarkably light and slim handset. As the first to integrate VibeTonz technology for touchscreens, we’re giving users the reassuring sense of interacting with a real keypad, supplying gentle touch feedback that unmistakably confirms each of their actions. As far as advanced mobile interfaces go, it offers the best of both worlds.
Stuart Robinson of Strategy Analytics is more careful: “We believe that market conditions are almost ripe for an explosion in touchscreen phones, and that by 2012 as many as 40 per cent of mobile phones could be using some form of touch sensitive technology.”
W559 Specs:
260k QVGA display
1.3 MP camera,
Bluetooth
Handwriting recognition
audio and video playback
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