Another Touch Screen Experience!

HTC Corp. announced the global launch of the HTC Touch, a stylish and deceptively small mobile phone that ushers another innovative new concept in intuitive touch screen navigation. Recently, with the following acquisition of Dopod International, HTC has unveil the all new HTC Touch, providing the new alternative for the touch screen experience in all-in-one mobility phone. Of course, some would cry foul over it’s similarity to the iPhone, but this would not bother the HTC lovers which provide different platform from Apple Open Source technology. It uses Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.0 operating system, offering easy features to those familiar with Microsoft operating system.

It has a very portable weight of 112g, slim with a streamlined design that’s coupled with a black coat to it’s exterior and fashionable. At the left, it has the volume button, and 2.0 Megapixel onboard camera button on the right. As usual, for ease of the user, at the top would be the power button, with the stylus ready for action at the side. Looking at the screen, the HTC Touch offer minimal button; a standard Call/Accept, Cancel/Disconnect and a 5-point navigation pad that provide tactile feedback. Well, nothing is perfect. The HTC Touch accepts SIM card through a slit beside the camera button and not within the battery cavity. Also, delicate fingers are also an unstated requirement prior to the touch screen usage of the phone. And users will find the process of inserting the small card of MicroSD is very challenging.

The HTC Touch is the first device to feature TouchFlo, the new underlying touch screen technology developed by HTC. Consumers simply sweep their finger up the display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising three screens; Contacts, Media and Applications. The interface can be spun by swinging a finger across the display, providing efficient access to the features consumers used most.

Leveraging the broad functionality of Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional, the HTC Touch includes Outlook Mobile, Windows Live and the capabilities to run thousands of third-party applications. Other features include EDGE, WiFi and Bluetooth besides internal 64MB RAM, external 128MB ROM and expandable MicroSD Slot memory.

At a retail price of USD$507, the HTC Touch is a definite crowd pleaser, proven to be highly usable and showed strong conviction that it could make the HTC stand in a class of its own.

Product Specification:

Processor: TI OMAP 850 201MHz
OS: Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional
Connectivity: Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11g, HTC ExtUSB 11-pin mini USB, audio jack-in-one
Controls: HTC TouchFLO & 5-way navigation control
Memory: ROM 128MB / SDRAM 64MB DDR, microSD memory card
Standby/Talktime: Up to 200 hours/5 hours
Dimension: 99.9 X 58 X 13.9mm (L X W X D)
Weight: 112g
 

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Touch Screen Mobile Phones

Although there have been many touch screen devices in the past, the one that has grabbed the public attention more than any other is undoubtedly the phone from Apple. Unlike any mobile phone before, it has captured the imagination of people from all over the world, attracted commentary from major news agencies, and drummed up a lot of interest across the internet.

The iPhone is not even the first touch screen phone. The last few generations of the O2 XDA have had touch screen interfaces, although users have needed a stylus to enter information and to control the phone’s functions, but it seems that now the iPhone, with its new methods of control using the fingers has increased the public perception of what is possible, and there are now dozens of imitators heading for the market, and many industry commentators are suggesting that the whole future of the mobile phone will be more like the iPhone.

One of the first competitors to hit the market was the beautiful LG Prada phone, which shares the simple lines and uncluttered interface of the iPhone, and like the iPhone, it actually offers less facilities and features than many of its rivals offer, making it unsuitable for anything but the fashion conscious casual user.

More recently, the HTC Touch has been released onto the market, and this compact phone shares many of the features of the iPhone, but exceeds it in a number of respects such as its support for the 3G network standard and its high resolution camera. Nokia are rumoured to be on the verge of releasing a special touch screen smart phone at the top of their range, and this is likely to be a very successful model. Sony Ericsson too have a touch screen tablet mobile on its way to market, while Motorola have released details of a future mobile phone under development which resembles a Nintendo DS in having two screens.

Ironically, despite the fact that the popularity of the Apple iPhone, it may actually hold back the development of the touch screen mobile phone genre: Apple have exclusive patents on the touch screen technology used in the iPhone’s revolutionary interface, and unless they are willing to sacrifice their exclusivity for a licensing deal, they will prevent lots of new phones hitting the market to compete with the iPhone and potentially hold back the development and cut interest from consumers.

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Touch Screen Monitors

With a touch screen, users can do away with the multiple hardware systems that were required to make use of a computer system. 1971 saw the development of the first touch screens and since then they have become extremely popular.

Touch screens are very popular in commercial set-ups like restaurants, airports, ATMs, industrial automation, and in computer-based training. In restaurants, customers use touch screens as ordering points where they can place their order on their own without dealing with a retail clerk. In computer-based learning, a touch screen is very helpful especially since it keeps the learner focused on the display and learners do not need any technical know-how to operate the keyboard or hardware.

Touch screen systems are either in the form of touch screen add-ons or touch screen monitors. The touch screen add-on technology is most useful when the touch screen is an upgrade to an existing display system. Commonly, an add-on touch sensitive peripheral is placed in front of an ordinary computer display unit. A controller is connected to the overlay and the PC. This controller communicates between the PC, the display, and the monitor. The other kind of touch screen display is the touch screen monitor.

A touch screen monitor is a complete piece of hardware, which has a screen with an built-in touch sensitive overlay. The two most popular technology used in touch screen monitors are the CRT and the LCD display. CRT stands for Cathode Ray Tube and LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display. An LCD is more advanced technology and therefore it is more expensive.

Conclusively, a touch screen monitor is only an integrated system. There is no difference in using a touch screen monitor or a touch screen add-on since both perform the same function. Most companies that manufacture touch screen equipment manufacture both types of screens.

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Touch Screen LCD

There are two kinds of touch screen displays. The more conventional display is the CRT or the Cathode Ray Tube, whereas the LCD or the Liquid Crystal Display is the more modern display technology. Most people know about the Cathode Ray Tube from the good old television set but LCD is a newer, less common kind of display.

Despite its apparent newness, LCD is making big waves in display technology. LCD is gaining in popularity primarily because it saves both space and energy. Combined with a touch screen display and LCD, display is the hallmark of today’s age. An LCD touch screen is more compact, efficient, and like any other touch screen it is easy to use.

The touch screen LCD display is best understood when seen in comparison with its more established predecessor: the CRT touch screen. The absolutely divergent technologies make the CRT and the LCD display characteristics very different. Not only that, but LCD also has an edge when it comes to size. LCD monitors are compact and lightweight. Typically, an LCD touch screen will take up only a third of the space occupied by a CRT touch screen of the same size.

Newer LCD screens are available even in 15- and 17-inch sizes. Until recently, 17-inch touch screens used only CRT monitors. As LCD screens are flat, the viewing area is also larger in comparison to a CRT monitor. That is, a 17-inch CRT monitor will have a viewing area of only about 16 inches where an LCD monitor will have the complete 17 inches.

On the downside, LCD touch screens do not display all colors and also can’t display multiple resolutions as well as CRT displays. Despite these limitations, LCD users are favoring touch screens. In fact, smart phones are the most commonly used LCD touch screens.

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