The Touch Phone: Its Pros and Cons

Touch phones are a mobile device with electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touch screens or touch phones can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus. Touch screens are common in devices such as all-in-one computers, tablet computers, and smart phones.

The touch screen of touch phones has two main attributes. First, it enables one to interact directly with what is displayed, rather than indirectly with a pointer controlled by a mouse or touchpad. Secondly, it lets one do so without requiring any intermediate device that would need to be held in the hand. Such displays can be attached to computers, or to networks as terminals. They also play a prominent role in the design of digital appliances such as the personal digital assistant (PDA), satellite navigation devices, mobile phones, and video games.

Having the opportunity to use touch phones these days entitles you to some advantages. Touch phones with big screens are ideal for web, picture and movie browsing. Touch screen gadgets usually have simple user interfaces, which are more intuitive, and touch phones have fewer buttons that might break after a few months/years of operation.

Touch phones nowadays are more likely patronized by consumers. There are also several disadvantages to consider: the screen has to be really big not to miss things when pressing them with your finger big touch screens lead to low battery life, owning a touch phone means screen can’t be read too well in direct sunlight as it applies an additional not 100% transparent. Touch phone devices usually have no additional keys (see the iPhone) and this means when application crashes, without crashing the OS, you can’t get to the main menu as the whole screen becomes unresponsive. They usually have low precision, virtual QWERTY keyboards being one of the most annoying things. Most user interfaces are not optimized for thumb operation, so a stylus in necessary, and this means using two hands. Screens get very dirty and these devices require massive computing power, which leads to slow devices and low battery life.

In spite of all the catch and negative reviews that we have for touch phones, most of us still anticipate that the leading mobile manufacturing companies will still come up with better devices in the near future.