How come all mobile phone manufacturers these days are focusing on touch screen technology?
It’s been all over the news for a long time. “Nokia challenges iPhone with a touch screen cell phone” and “LG unveils New Touchscreen Phone, the GD510″. The news are about the same challenge. That is, challenging the iPhone market dominance and trying to win customers by launching yet another, but better touch screen.
But what do touch screens do for the user experience? The touch screens enable a significant different user experience. It allows for a more user friendy navigation, especially for elderly and disabled people. The bigger touch screens give the user a better browsing experience. Following this development, the mobile Internet will soon be bigger than the existing web. The devices also become more engaging and playful. For instance with sensors built in to the phones, they are already becoming serious gaming devices.
The touch screen phones are here to stay and they will make it a lot more fun to experience the real and digital world around us.