Article: Touchscreen technologies in phones
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Touchscreen phones are becoming a part of our lives more and more each day. This is due to the fact that the touchscreen control method allows a device to be navigated much more easily, quickly and intuitively, since you can activate given applications by touch, rather than having to press a button multiple times (e.g. the D-pad). There are a few different types of technology that can be used to achieve this control method, each of them having its pros and cons.
A little pre-history of the different types of technical methods, used in touchscreens:
Images courtesy of elotouch.com
The beginning:
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Dr. Samuel Hurst (left) |
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5-wire Resistive Touchscreen |
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20 Comments
3. (unregistered) posted on 26 Aug 2008, 19:26 0
Primitive technology. Wait til the Blackberry Thunder comes out. Apple fanboys will be STUNNED!
5. (unregistered) posted on 26 Aug 2008, 23:37 0
primitive? thunder uses capacitive technology..same as iphone...thunder is just setup differently
4. Dexter (unregistered) posted on 26 Aug 2008, 20:41 0
Bravo Phone Arena. Great piece and you managed not to work in a spy story or other unwanted coloring. Very educational, please write more articles like this.
12. Anomalies posted on 29 Aug 2008, 14:39 0
I agree, this was an amazing article and I learned a lot. I however do like leaked information on phones =/
8. Shelley (unregistered) posted on 27 Aug 2008, 13:03 0
Great article---so, who makes the technology? It would be great to purchase the stock/s.
9. mmeee (unregistered) posted on 27 Aug 2008, 13:35 0
Yes, very good article. Informative and interesting, keep em comming!
10. (unregistered) posted on 27 Aug 2008, 13:47 0
i second #12 phonearena who are the major producors of the infared tochsceens? and the only thing ur site is missing is more articals like this one. keep em coming, please.
11. PC (unregistered) posted on 27 Aug 2008, 20:31 0
Wow, could you image a phone that supports all 5 fingers. I want microsoft to get into the cell phone industry themselves. That would make Steve Jobs crap his pants.
13. (unregistered) posted on 29 Aug 2008, 19:20 0
when would u use five fingers simultaneously on a phone? just out of curiosity
14. (unregistered) posted on 30 Aug 2008, 09:30 0
I'm sure i read this at the resistive touchscreen: "Unfortunately, this method cannot report more than one touch at a time" Am I right? If yes, than the writer is too uninformed. Resistive touchscreen can report more than one touch at a time. I you don't beleive, visithttp://www.simasystems.com/ind
ex.html kthxbye
15. zForce FanBoy (unregistered) posted on 05 Sep 2008, 19:02 0
The Neonode zForce Technology which is opitacal/infrared touch screen based can do Multitouch, has no issues in working direct sunlight, which would be the brightest of ambient lights, and also when comparing to Capacitive and Resistive touch-screens on a same production volume, the zForce Technology is actually the CHEAPEST!!!
16. evman (unregistered) posted on 05 Sep 2008, 22:10 0
the iphone so far has the most advanced touch screen
17. X3V3N (unregistered) posted on 13 Sep 2008, 22:07 0
i agree, i like the apple Touch UI its sweet, just wish the phone part of it was better. ( i drop hella calls)
18. (unregistered) posted on 16 Oct 2008, 09:54 0
thats because of the network, not the phone.
