A touchscreen is a display that can detect the presence of a touch within the display area. The technology is consistently getting popular with mobiles, notebooks and other electronic gadgets. According to a leading market research company, out of 38.1 million handsets sold in 2Q of this year, 15 million were touchbased compared to the sale of 3.9 million touch based handsets out of 33.6, a year earlier.

The success of Apple iPhone and other phones like BlackBerry Storm are key drivers in paddling the success for the touch adoption. These devices change the look and interest of today’s generation.

Further, the number of Smartphones that use a keyboard as its primary interface also reached 10.7 million mark in the quarter.

The reason behind the success of these touch-screen and keyboard-equipped phones is increased interest in social networking, including Facebook and Twitter, which demand more typing and web browsing. But, in the last quarter or year, the big market loser is the keypad. Last year, more than 60 percent of Smartphones were equipped with a traditional keypad, but now it has dropped to about 32 percent and the Touchscreen outperform the keypad.

Latest Touchscreen Handset that transform the perception

The various handsets with touchscreen, which are making lot of noise, include Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iPod Touch, HTC's G1, HTC Magic and HTC Hero, Palm Pre and Palm Eos, and more recently the LG KM900 Arena, Microsoft's Zune HD, Sony Walkman X series and Sony Ericsson's Aino.

Apple iPhone 3GS

No touch screen mobile phone comparison would be complete without this device. It may provide smoothest, fastest and most enjoyable web experience on a phone. With brilliant interface and 3.5” Touchscreen, GPS, 3MP camera, up to 32GB of storage and ‘S’ for more speed, it creates many reason to rejoice for consumers with its multi-touch input methods, the ambient light sensor and menus.

 Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
 
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic features 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi support, a 3.2 megapixel camera and a hefty 3.2” high resolution touch display. It has 8GB internal memory and a 3.5mm audio jack with 5.1 Dolby sound for great headphone listening pleasure. The success of the set is shown by high sales figures.

LG Arena KM900

The LG Arena KM900 features company’s ‘S-Class’ interface with its 3-dimensional cube which revolves to provide access to four different screens – contacts, widgets, shortcuts and a customizable home page. It redefines UI in a new way. Also, the device features 5 megapixel autofocus camera with digital zoom, GPS, 3” TFT touchscreen and 8GB of internal memory.

Samsung Tocco Lite

The 3” display offers nice TouchWiz UI, thin frame, 2G, a 3.15 megapixel camera with face and smile detection, music and movie playback for most formats, a document viewer, stereo FM radio and downloadable games.
 
HTC Touch Diamond 2

With more refined touch experience and Windows Mobile operating system, the device has 3.2” VGA display with a touch sensitive zoom bar below the screen, which makes web browsing a joyful activity. With its TouchFLO 3D interface and additional features like 3G connectivity, built-in GPS and a 5 megapixel camera, makes the handset full of features.

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