Touchscreen handset shipments to exceed 230 million by 2012. According to IMS Research, Touchscreen-equipped mobile handsets sales will increase to over 230 million by 2012. There are numerous signs pointing that touchscreens are poised to significantly increase their presence in the handset market. Three of the largest mobile phone manufacturers have highlighted a trend in the increased production of phones using touch technology:
+ In July, LG revealed that it had sold seven million touchscreen handsets.
+ Just one week after the launch, Sprint announced that the Instinct had already become the best selling EV-DO device in the carrier’s history.
+ Apple reported selling one million of the new 3G iPhone handsets in just the first three days of its release.
Finally, we will also hear from Nokia in the near future for that S60 Touch, its touchscreen handsets.
(via digitimes)
ClearPad Sensor for Touchscreen SH906i Clamshell. Synaptics announced today that its ClearPad™ solution is driving the interactive touchscreen in NTT DOCOMO’s new SH906i clamshell handset. Sharp SH906i is the first ClearPad-enabled touchscreen mobile phone in Japan’s mobile handset market. The SH906i uses Synaptics’ ClearPad technology to enable finger-input character recognition capabilities for Japanese character entry. The combination of the SH906i character recognition software and Synaptics ClearPad solution improves usability for regions with more complex alphabets. 
Texas Instruments confirms projectors in cellphones by end of 2008. John Van Scoter, the senior vice president of Texas Instruments (TI), has confirmed that projectors in mobile phones are coming later this year when he was speaking in Taipei at a TI forum on May 14th. We’ll be seeing some handset manufacturers putting TI’s miniaturized projectors inside cellphones on the consumer market. 
Kyocera New GSM Phones: E4600, E3500, E2500, S1600. Kyocera announced its entry into the GSM handset market with four new GSM handsets. The new phones (E4600, E3500, E2500, S1600) will launch initially in Latin America, where a number of CDMA service providers recently switched to GSM networks. Combined with its extensive CDMA expertise, Kyocera’s addition of GSM to its technology portfolio also positions the company to address the rapidly growing WCDMA market. 
31% of All Mobile Phones to be Smartphones by 2013. A new study from ABI Research indicates that 31% of all mobile phones in 2013 will be a smartphone. Currently, one in ten cellphones (10%) are smartphones. 
Sharp to enter Chinese Market before Beijing Olympics. Sharp is making plans to enter the Chinese handset market ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
Chinese Demand for Cellphones to increase 15% in 2008. Due to MediaTek recorded falling handset chip shipments in Q4 2007, chip makers have been conservative about demand for handsets in the China market. However, Nokia are expecting demand for handsets in the China to increase about 15% this year! Demand for handsets in China totaled 250 million units in 2007, the sources indicated, making China’s handset market the second largest in size after the US market. 
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