New LG Chocolate Phone Gets Synaptics OneTouch Solution

The new LG Chocolate (VX8550) slider phone will be shipped with the OneTouch solution coming from Synaptics. This technology makes it possible for OEMs to create even slimmer handset designs for consumers with the help of thin, flexible and under-plastic advantages.

LG Chocolate VX8550 has a pretty appealing design and the OneTouch solution could very well account for that. The phone has a capacitive interface that uses this new technology, with the great advantage of keeping the handset's sizes low and the efficiency at a large level.

"LG strives to bring innovative products to market while ensuring consumer satisfaction through an enjoyable user experience and Synaptics' OneTouch solution allowed us to incorporate a reliable interface in our new Chocolate phone that we expect will delight users", commented Woo-Young Kwak, head of LG Electronics mobile handset R&D center. Moreover, "Synaptics' OneTouch development kit, tools and support greatly reduced the cycle time from design to development to production", he further added.

The producing company for this solution has high expectations from its new technology. "We believe OneTouch will enable greater adoption of capacitive interfaces by market leaders such as LG by simplifying the industrial design and development, processes and manufacturing", said RK Parthasarathy, product line director at Synaptics.

This comes as a result of the fact that this is an end-to-end solution, meant to help mobile phone producers with designing intuitive and superior capacitive interfaces for their devices. LG Chocolate VX8550 is one of them and can be found at Verizon Wireless, on the US market.

Synaptics is a leading developer that creates interface solutions for a large number of various devices, including notebook PCs, PC peripherals, digital music players and mobile phones. The company already has a considerable experience with consumer electronics, as its TouchPad is already integrated into a majority of today's notebook computers.