Neonode Introduces SAT Touchscreen Improvement

Posted by Sierra Monica B. in Technology on 07 2nd, 2009 | no responses

Neonode announced a new touchscreen solution called Selected Area Touch, meant to improve the user interface.
For those of you who can’t recall what this company does, let me tell you that Neonode is the producer of Neonode N2 touchscreen cell phone, said to be the world’s smallest handset of its kind, measuring only 77 x 47 x 14.7 mm at 70 grams. It doesn’t support 3G but features a 2-inch touchscreen display of 65K colors, MP3 ringtones, vibration, speakerphone, photo call, external memory support, Bluetooth, a built-in 2MP digital camera, HTML web browsing and games, while enabling up to four hours of continuous talk time, with 200 hours of standby, using a standard rechargeable Li-Ion battery.

The cell phone works with the company’s zForce optical touch technology, which enables multiple finger input and gestures such as scrolling, zooming, pivot rotate, flicks and press.
In order to add a cost-effective and improved touchscreen solution, the Selected Area Touch keeps a part of the touch area for activation.
As zForce doesn’t require film or overlay on the display’s surface, it can be also used by device manufacturers in digital photo frames, eBooks and other gadgets using touch screens.

The multi-touch technology featured by Neonode handsets is a high-end capability rarely encountered in today’s gadgets. There are about three major brands that provide this capability via their handheld devices and these include the famous iPhone and the N2 cell phone.
An advanced version of this technology is enabled in larger displays for public use, such as Microsoft’s Surface and DiamondTouch from MERL.