14 DAY TRIAL // Touchscreen enabled mobile phones have taken a major leap over the past period. Nokia has seen that and rumors state that this producer will bring out its first handset using this technology as soon as next year. The company's interest in it has also led to the filing of an innovative patent.
What's the main drawback with touchscreen enabled mobile phones? First of all, they lack the tactile feedback that regular buttons bring. In fact, this exact feature is the reason which led, at first, to a slight adoption of devices using this type of technology.
Nokia's patent looks right into this matter and tries to find a solution. It even manages to do so, although its idea is a pretty basic one. The user adds a lid to a touchscreen enabled phone, with the specially shaped physical opening to guide user inputs. This offers the possibility to use the software for interface control over various applications through these guided user inputs without even looking at the handset.
The technology is supposed to help especially those who are driving and still need to handle their mobile phone. That's a pretty strange use for the handset, as handling could be dangerous even under these terms. Even without looking at the phone, what's the use of dialing a phone number, if talking on it is forbidden in many countries? Moreover, handling the music player is also useless when driving, although it might work as you don't have to take the phone out of the pocket to handle the playlist.
Touchscreen technology has really taken a great leap over the past year, as Apple's iPhone set the trend and made everybody want one of those gizmos. A great number of mobile phones has sprung out on the market and it looks like things will stand this way until a new breakthrough technology takes its place.