Touchscreen originated in the 20th century 70s, many were installed in the early industrial computers, POS terminals and
other industrial or commercial aircraft into equipment. 2007 launch of iPhone, and become a milestone in the touch industry.
Apple to at least 20 keys of a mobile phone, designed to be only 34 keys can be buttoned up all the remaining operations are
completed by the touch screen. In addition to giving the user more direct, convenient operation experience in addition to the
phone's shape becomes more fashionable thin and light, an increase of human-computer interaction directly intimacy, which
made consumers in hot pursuit,http://www.global-
but also opens the touch screen to the mainstream control interface into the journey.
At present, the touch screen application has become more and more widely, from industrial use to control plant equipment /
operating system, the electronic check information query facilities, commercial uses of cash machines, to consumer
electronics, mobile phone, PDA, Digital cameras can see touch-screen presence. Of course, this one is still the most widely
used mobile phones. According to research firm ABIResearch reported that in 2008 mobile phone with touch-screen shipments to
more than 100 million, http://www.global-
is expected to install the touch interface on 2012 handset shipments to more than 500 million.
And there are signs that the touch-screen consumer electronics products in the range of applications from mobile phone
screens are small areas of the screen size to a greater expansion of notebook computers. Currently, Dell, HP, Fujitsu, Asus
and other first-line notebook brands have plans to launch laptops with touch screen, or UMPC. Of course, with touch screen on
a notebook computer for less than 10 inches from the low-priced laptop or UMPC, expanded to more than 14-inch mainstream
notebook market, the industry still controversial. Because for mainstream notebook or desktop computer, consumers more
accustomed to using the keyboard and mouse input, unlike the small size notebook computer, keyboard due to limited capacity,
need to be supplemented by the touch screen to achieve a more intuitive person machine communication purposes. And now
Windows system does not yet support multi-touch features such as separate from the PC manufacturers to import multi-touch
features, the software effort and investment is another very impressive, it is expected that by 2010, a new multi-touch
operation Before listing the system Windows7,http://www.global-
with touch screen notebook computer will be limited to 12.1 the following. Even
so, touch-screen market, future prospects are very attractive. According to market research firm forecasts that by 2010 touch
screen will reach 3.5 billion U.S. dollars output value.
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