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01 Oct 2007
More than 100 million handsets with touch screens will be shipped in 2008, according to new research.
A study from ABI Research said that increasing numbers of handsets with touch screens have started to appear in the market following the lead set by Apple's iPhone.
Other devices include the LG Prada, the HTC Touch, the Samsung Ultra-Smart F700 and the Sony Ericsson P990, M600, and W950 handsets.
Touch screens and touch pads are gaining popularity and becoming more common on handsets, while helping to make the handsets more intuitive, pleasant and efficient to use, the report stated.
ABI Research industry analyst Shailendra Pandey said: "Handsets with intuitive user interfaces allow quick and easy access to various applications and services and can result in higher revenues for mobile operators by generating greater usage of value-added services.
"Mobile operators are therefore keen to promote and market handsets with good user interfaces on their networks."
The study noted that many smartphones and high-end handsets with attractive features have been commercial failures simply because their user interfaces have been too complex and difficult for convenient use.
ABI expects that more than 500 million handsets shipped in 2012 will sport a touch-based user interface.
"A good handset user interface is important not just to meet and exceed user expectations, but to support fast and flexible design changes, operator customisation and late software distribution, while maintaining low demands on the hardware," said Pandey.
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The Treo and Windows Mobile phones have been shipping for YEARS before the iPhone. HTC has always had two lines of WM smartphones - the touchscreen and non-touchscreen kinds. And the LG Prada was out BEFORE the iPhone. Microsoft has been moving towards a common platform for touchscreen and non-touchscreen phones and PDAs for a few years now (almost complete with WM6/Crossbow). About the only phone maker who hasn't been on the touchscreen bandwagon has been Nokia and even THEY have had a couple of them. There's been a convergence between typically touchscreen PDAs and typically non-touchscreen cell phones over the past two years and this jump was already predicted years ago as the two classes merged. The flip version of it has been claiming (incorrectly) that PDAs are dying out because cell phones are replacing them. Not everything in the world revolves around or was invented by Apple.
Posted by: Jeff Lewis 01 Oct 2007