Created elastic smartphone
December 16, 2009 – 10:28 pm
A number of companies led by Synaptics announced the development of a prototype smartphone Fuse, reacting to the compression. Reported the press office of the company. Shaking, rolling, squeezing and stroking the device, the user can fully control it with one hand.
So, shaking responsible for the navigation in the application list, and compression in the hand stops the scrolling list. Stroking finger back of the phone you can select the application, and again pressing the phone, start the selected program. It is reported that the interface is being developed by Immersion.
prototype is equipped with a capacitive multitouch display based on organic light-emitting diodes (AMOLED) with a diagonal of 3.7 inches with a maximum resolution 480h800 pixels. The device runs on the processor OMAP 3630 Texas Instruments. For the development of the operating system and interface are responsible company TheAlloy and The Astonishing Tribe. However Synaptics does not specify which operating system will be used in the prototype.
According to representatives of Synaptics, a working prototype will be demonstrated at the exhibition Consumer Electronics Show, which will be held in Las Vegas 7 -10 January, reports Lenta.ru. Synaptics does not plan to develop a commercial model, it is a concept design, which in future will benefit manufacturers of smartphones in developing their own business models.
Synaptics itself does not develop smartphones. This California company, founded in 1986, is known as a manufacturer of input devices for laptops and mobile devices.