Touchscreen Smartphones
Though the history of Touchscreen technology is quite old but it gained major attention when it was embedded with the mobile handsets. According to definition Touchscreen simply means onscreen input which can be via light pen or any other device. Touchscreen systems are based on the coordinate system on the screen. These days Touchscreen mobile phones many times called as Smartphone by some vendors are prevailing in the market. Smartphone has an Operating System installed that offers advanced functionality which are beyond a typical mobile phone. And the Touchscreen Smartphone is nothing less then a Touchscreen mini PC in your pocket. Isn’t it amazing? The first Smartphone was designed in 1992 by IBM which was named as Simon. But later many companies came with their Smartphones. RIM released its first Smartphone with wireless email feature. That was the first version of BlackBerry. That was only the beginning as it revolutionized this industry. Nokia too released its phone with such features but it named it as Imaging Phone. The most common operating systems used in these handsets are Symbian OS, RIM BlackBerry, Windows and now iPhone OS from Apple Inc is developing great craze in the market.
These days Apple’s iPhone is rocking in the market. But RIM’s Blackberry Storm is now trying to catch the attention of the market with its magnificent clickable interface which resembles to Apple’s iPhone. It is now believed that other companies also will implement these touch screen feature and hence the technology will drive mobile phone industry for coming many years. Apple iPhone’s feature of zooming into the images by back movement of the fingers and zooming out in opposite way is something people really got attracted to. Hence currently it is the first choice in the market. As always Apple seems to lead as far as the innovation in technology is concerned. Though both Nokia and Apple needs to be careful and must come out with something new and more lucrative because the BlackBerry Storm is going to be released at the end of 2008, and according to RIM it has a new touch screen feature in which the gentle click gives the feeling of a keyboard or a mouse and is totally different from those used by the formers. It also provides features such as slides, multi-touch taps and the ability to highlight, scroll and zoom. Mike Lazaridis, RIM’s president, is very confident about the success of their new product and very excited for its release in the market.
You can avail all these new and completely different user experience in Smartphone later this year with Verizon Wireless in US and Vodafone in Asia and Europe. Now whether it is really unique or similar to the other Smartphones will be decided by the consumers after its release. But these innovative devices have definitely changed the way human interact today. They are having good hold over the market, and why not, they have made impossible happen.
