Handsets with touch screens and touch pads are gaining popularity for their very effective and easy-to-use capabilities and according to study by ABI Research (News - Alert), over 100 million handsets with touch screens will be shipped in 2008.

 

The Apple iPhone, the LG Prada, the HTC Touch, and the Ultra-Smart F700 from Samsung, as well as the P990, M600, and W950 handsets from Sony Ericsson (News - Alert) are some of the brands names in this space.  

 

According to ABI Research industry analyst Shailendra Pandey, “Handsets with intuitive user interfaces allow quick and easy access to various applications and services and can result in higher ARPUs for mobile operators by generating greater usage of their value-added services. Mobile operators are therefore keen to promote and market handsets with good UI on their networks.”

 

The current scenario for the latest touch screens is different compared to the smart phones and high-end handsets of the past with very advanced and high-end features that still had commercial failure due their complexity and non-convenient use.

 

ABI's forecast points to more than 500 million handsets shipped in 2012 to include a touch-based user interface.

 

“A good handset UI is important not just to meet and exceed users’ expectations,” notes Pandey, “but also to support fast and flexible design changes, operator customizations, and late software distribution, while maintaining low demands on the hardware.”