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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 | 10:36am
Touch-Screen Phones Poised for Growth
ANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) – Get your fingers ready. Apple Inc.’s iPhone is leading a new wave of gadgets using touch-sensitive screens that react to taps, swishes or flicks of a finger. The improvements promise to be slicker and more intuitive than the rough stomp of finger presses and stylus-pointing required by many of today’s [...]
ANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) – Get your fingers ready. Apple Inc.’s iPhone is leading a new wave of gadgets using touch-sensitive screens that react to taps, swishes or flicks of a finger. The improvements promise to be slicker and more intuitive than the rough stomp of finger presses and stylus-pointing required by many of today’s devices.
Apple has already been showing off its finger ballet in video ads ahead of the smart phone’s hotly anticipated launch on June 29.
Glide a finger across the screen to activate the device and main menu. Slide your digit up or down to scroll through contacts. Flick to flip through photos. Tap to zoom in on a Web site.
With Apple’s marketing machinery, the iPhone is poised to become the poster child for the new breed of touch-screen technology, which relierove, a senior analyst of display technologies at iSuppli. It has two layers of glass or plastic and calculates the location of touch when pressure is applied with either a stylus or a finger.
A more advanced type of touch screen, featured on the iPhone and LG Prada, uses “projected capacitive” technology. A mesh of metal wires between two layers of glass registers a touch when the electrical field is broken.
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