iPhone driving touchscreen sales?
updated 09:00 am EDT, Thu May 24, 2007
iPhone Drives Touchscreens
The as yet unreleased iPhone will be instrumental to the touchscreen market in 2007, according to the Taiwan-based Topology Research Institute. The study claims that Apple's device will help make the touch-sensitive panels an increasingly popular choice with other cellphone makers, many of whom still rely on physically driven controls. The California company's influence should help boost the total business to as much as $2.7 billion, TRI says, though the institution didn't indicate what percentage of the business would be controlled by the 3.5-inch widescreen central to the iPhone.
Touchscreens have been a staple of some smartphones, including Palm handsets such as the Treo 755p, but has only recently been finding its way into more universal devices such as the variety of mid-range phones that offer Chinese handwriting recognition or LG's recently launched Prada phone. Touchscreens have until recently been more commonly associated with GPS mapping units and specialized computer displays.
touchscreen tech co's?
05/24, 10:04am reply
so, which companies are involved in the manufacture of touchscreen technology? Sounds like a possible investment opportunity...
climacs
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Yet
05/24, 11:07am reply
I still would like to have it come with (or at least work with) a stylus or other pointing device. I got stubby fingers. And I don't need to be getting cheetoh dust on my screens!
testudo
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You know,
05/24, 12:47pm reply
nothing says you HAVE to use your fingers. There's always the random pencil (eraser side please) or any such apendage you have available. No need to worry about the cheetoh dust.
danviento
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USB redux...
05/24, 01:41pm reply
It would be reminiscent of the rapid proliferation of USB devices that came out following the iMac in the late '90s.
Robb
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Uberstylupen
05/24, 03:27pm reply
http://www.stylusplus.com/crosshatch4way.html
WINNAR
OtisWild
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Uhm....
05/25, 04:48am reply
Doubt it... I think it'll be a week earlier. A MacBook Pro order placed on the 15th still hasn't shipped, if they make us wait until June 11th that'll be no good. Gotta be next week, you can't just not ship laptops for a month! posted by jbruner
Yea, and who thought they'd pull the iMac for how long before the new form factor was introduced?
Fast iBook
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evolution
05/25, 05:05pm reply
hey tough luck testudo, this is just evolution working,
stubby fingers, no iphone: no iphone, no girlfriend: no girlfriend, no little testudoicles running at your feet,
chucker
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