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The touch screen mobile phone is quickly becoming standard inside the mobile phone industry. Consumers are increasingly concerned with "ease of use" which is difficult to get much more "user friendly" than the usual mobile device that takes its commands by the touch of the index finger.
The Iphone gets a lot of the loan these days for introducing the concept to countless eager mobile phone buyers, however the touch screen phone could be traced back a long time before the iPhone being conceived.
Indeed, the touch screen utilized in today's modern handsets has come along way since the development and practical use of the technology by Wacom, a Japanese company.
Originally, touch graphics "tablets" were used to support writing Japanese ideograms as a method for inputting text. The concept was for that tablet to determine pressure and direction of the stylus, "recording" this information by means of text written to the tablet screen. Wacom graphics tablets are notable for their use with a patented cordless, battery-free, and pressure-sensitive stylus (an on-screen writing pen).
The first 1990's began the time of the touch screen PDA, or smartphone. As usual, Apple was the best choice in the outset. The Apple Newton was introduced in 1992 and continued production for a full six years. Its limited electric batteries and inability to squeeze into a shirt pocket kept the Newton from being as popular as Apple had hoped with consumers.
The touch screen device that was a hit using the PDA buying public was the Palm Pilot, beginning its production in 1996. Data was inputted with the aid of a little plastic stylus that detached in the side of PDA itself.
Although no cell phone capabilities were incorporated with the Palm Pilot, it had been the iPhone-like device of the day. Countless consumers toted Palm Pilots in their pockets and purses, monitoring daily schedules and events.
True and sensitive touch screen technology hit its stride with the rollout from the Apple iphone in January, 2007. Consumers finally got a taste of a mobile phone which was truly sensitive to the slightest touch of one finger. The Apple iPhone became an instant sensation and being named Time magazine's Invention of the Year for 2007.
The iPhone raised the bar for screen cell phones, but others have been quick to respond and are beginning to introduce excellent touchscreen handsets that belongs to them.
Finnish handset maker Nokia is promoting its first touch screen phone - the Nokia 5800 XPress Music mobile phone handset [1]. This unique handset not just features an onboard camcorder but additionally unlimited downloads of music tracks contained in its monthly subscription. Going to be out in early 2009, the Nokia 5800 continues to be hyped as the next iPhone killer. RIM, the producer of the Blackberry, is scheduled to unveil its Blackberry Storm at the end of 2008 with wishes to compete against Apple and Nokia for that huge touch screen market.
Age the screen mobile phone is alive and well in the 21st century. It won't be well before consumers wonder how on the planet they ever got along without one.
