Touch Screen Phone: The Smartphone craze of the recent times

The Touch Screen Phones are the latest in offerings from the mobile phone technology to denote a special genre of phone called the Smart phones. The traditional and conventional mobile phones are of a two piece design, the mobile screen and the keypads. The screen comprises the menu and the keypads comprise the menu selection button. The keypad have the selection keys for the typing as well as the selection keys for selecting and applying multiple operations like photo shooting, music play, downloading from the internet, Push to talk features and so on . In the touch screen version, this keypad concept is obsolete. Rather, on the large, several inches wide screen have the selection buttons itself. One can select the buttons either by single finger tips or by a magnetic reader sticks and get the option done. In fact, the conventional keypad can also be found in this type of phones by selecting the desired button, and the alphabets are selected in the same way to type a text message. Surely, the pressure on the fingers has reduced to a great extent by this phone.

This type of phones sometimes referred as touch phones have multiple facilities that differentiate it from the traditional phones. Apart from the touch and operate features, this phone have several attractive qualities as well. As for example, in the I-Phone version from the apples, one can change the pages of a file in the mobile just the same way when fingers turn over pages manually. As the phone is designed for multiple purposes and with multiple applications, the in-built storage memory is several times when compared with the traditional type phones. Generally the mobile phones operate on the in- built platforms like BREWS or JAVA ME, but smart phones have the facility to install other application platforms. These touch phones are always available in a 3.2 mega pixel camera which has good picture clarity. There are BlackBerry Videos which can be found on the youtube, which is gaining popularity these days.

The Cell Phones have come a long way from the most basic ones to the latest smart phones. Now day, as people are getting more and busier with their lifestyle, they demand all the communication facilities at the finger tips. No one wishes to open the PC and read or send e-mails; rather they prefer to send it from their mobiles. This is just an example of the various facilities of the smart phones. No wonder, the smart phones are the craze of the hours.