Samsung launches an 'Optical Joystick' Phone
19 December 2006 by axxxr Samsung launches the world's first mobile phone featuring an 'Optical Joystick Phone.Users utilize the optical joystick key by placing their finger and moving a cursor to navigate through the menu, similar to a cursor of a mouse on a PC.
Optical sensors will read and react to users finger movement, thus breaking down the traditional four-way menu navigation and providing 360 degrees of freedom.
Comments On 20 Dec 04:39 imanuk wrote Unless I'm very much mistaken...(masseur,2003) ...this is effectively an optical mouse upside down, reading the underside of your thumb, which may just be quite intuative. @antichrist how many "ultra mobile" pcs (and the PSP) use analog joystics or laptop style nipple joysicks for there cursors? loads, they dont have touch screens. Maybe this technology is more of impotant step than we relaise. @Rach which samsungs suck? Most popular phone in the UK (2006 UK MOBILE) also most reliable (2006 UK MOBILE). On 20 Dec 00:01 Taj wrote I swear the Neonode N1m does exactly the same thing? On 19 Dec 22:36 antichrist wrote the stylus and the touchscreen is much better than this... invention. this should have been invented BEFORE the touchscreen On 19 Dec 21:58 osecours wrote That is better than the SE's joystick which brokes anyway. On 19 Dec 20:46 Rach wrote Shame it's a samsung thing as Samsung phones suck! On 19 Dec 20:40 MnM wrote If it gets rid of a crappy joystick (well SE anyway) and avoids the need for a stylus and touchscreen then I am all for it. On 19 Dec 18:56 Bigredend wrote Nice idea, I'd like to see it in action tho ! On 19 Dec 18:42 Mukul wrote Nice innovation.....so much for joysticks |
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