Fuse Shows What Next-Gen Touch Phones Are Like
You can put the squeeze on this one!
In terms of touch-based phones, nothing much has changed since the launch of the original iPhone back in 2007. Sure, we've got App Stores and a lot more competition from Palm and the Android camps, but the main idea of just a big screen that you look at and rub is unchanged.
Synaptics, the company behind many of the trackpads that you see and use on laptops today, has designed a concept mobile phone with several key innovations that it hopes will be incorporated in your next pocket device.
The concept, called Fuse, brings together multi-touch capacitive sensing, haptic feedback, 3-D graphics, and force, grip, and proximity sensing.
For example, grip sensing achieved via force and capacitive touch sensors on the sides of the phone allows the user to execute common controls such as pan and scroll. The Fuse also has 2D navigation from the back of the phone, meaning that users can input to the phone without his or her hands covering the display.
"Consumers have many options when it comes to choosing a smartphone, and though many phones are loaded with applications to simplify one's life, they often accomplish just the opposite," said William Stofega, research manager for mobile device technology and trends at IDC. "Synaptics partnering with innovative industry leaders to deliver an intelligent concept device that has the consumers' lifestyles in mind will help showcase the true potential of the smartphone."
The Fuse mobile phone concept isn't all Synaptics' touch sensing tech. The company enlisted the help of TheAlloy, The Astonishing Tribe (TAT for short, and designers of the Android UI), Immersion (holders of the rumbling controller patent), and Texas Instruments. TheAlloy led the user experience and overall product design efforts; TAT enabled the effective 3-D environment and lent their extensive user interface software design skills; Immersion made possible the tactile feedback, ensuring an integrated and satisfying experience; TI's OMAPTM 3630 processor provided the framework and platform.
Synaptics will be showing off more from its concept at CES 2010.
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I do not ever grip my phone like that, but I can see how scrolling from the back is useful. especially if you do stuff like scroll through text and watch videos.
What is up with that video? It's totally fake!
I seriously doubt that will get any launch at all, though the tech may be a new idea, the whole design is way ugly and squeezing the phone aint the most comfortable way to use it.
Yea that video is fake as all get out, check out the top left corner of the display move on the phone at 0:35
Someone else said it best,
It's hilarious because the Palm Treo series (90, 600, 650, etc) predate the iPhone by a half-decade.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Strand [...] -5334.html
What is up with that video? It's totally fake!
Yeah, the screen movement doesn't match up with the phone movement at the end of the video. It looks very super-imposed. That's too bad cause some of the ideas sound pretty good.
Hardware concepts and tech are nice, but the ui needs work. Kinda plain and the big "bubbled" center is a bit annoying
Looks like a bad tracking job...
This must be a concept design video - and should really be labeled as such - since it's obvious that the screen content doesn't match the movement of the phone.
Yes it's fake. It's a concept video. It's just to give you an idea of what the phone will be like.
its 100% fake the time doesnt change and the crosses you see in the image are for camera tracking ..very bad at it aswelll lol
Yeah, the screen movement doesn't match up with the phone movement at the end of the video. It looks very super-imposed. That's too bad cause some of the ideas sound pretty good.
Well done tards, nobody bothered to read the header that this is a 'CONCEPT' video. Sigh.....
That means it is made up, therefore not fake as there is nothing TO fake lol.
As long as cell phones come in box form, I will not bother buying one.
Someone else said it best,http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Strand [...] -5334.html
Those phones you mentioned were just regular touch phones. I think Marcus was pointing out that Apple was the first multi-touch capable phone and that "In terms of touch-based phones, nothing much has changed since the launch of the original iPhone back in 2007."