Technology
What Products Use Haptics?
Leading brands use haptics to create compelling and realistic user experiences. Their products are winning awards, receiving acclaim, and delighting customers through the interactive and engaging sense of touch.
Mobile Devices
Giving users a high touch experience every day
Pantech Element
Cutting Edge Touch Feedback Effects.
"Outside of its fairly beefy specs, what really makes the Element stand out is that it will be the first tablet to feature Immersion’s Hi-Def Haptics technology..."
—Mobile Magazine
The Pantech Element combines a single piezo actuator from Samsung Electro-Mechanics Corp and the DRV-8662 haptic piezo driver from TI with Immersion’s TouchSense 5000 control software and HD Integrator tools. Sounds complicated doesn’t it. So what does it all really mean? It means it has cutting edge touch feedback effects.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1"
"It really does feel like a Galaxy Tab 10.1 crossed with the Galaxy Note."
The Galaxy Note 10.1 announced at MWC 2012, is an S-Pen toting variant of the similarly sized-and-named Galaxy Tab. It's running Touchwiz-infused ICS on a 1.4GHz dual-core CPU with 1GB of RAM, a 10.1-inch WXGA (1280 x 800) display, and a number of optimizations for the Wacom-based S-Pen including preloaded versions of Adobe Photoshop Touch, Adobe Ideas, and a short cut to the S-Notes app.
Samsung Galaxy Note
The World's Largest Smartphone
"With the Note, Samsung has managed to create one of the world's largest smartphones, but cunningly it's also an incredibly compact tablet with a high-resolution display..."
—Engadget
Check out Samsung Galaxy Note Review.
Samsung's new GT-N7000 Galaxy Note is as thin as a Galaxy S II, lightning fast and its 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED display is as gorgeous as it is enormous; the 1280 x 800 pixels you once could only get with a full-size laptop (or in the Galaxy Tab 10.1) can now slide comfortably into your front pocket.
Samsung Galaxy S II
Samsung Unveils Next-gen Galaxy S II at Mobile World Congress 2011
"It's the best Android smartphone yet, but more importantly, it might well be the best smartphone, period." —Engadget
Check out Samsung Galaxy S II Review.
The successor to one of the most popular Android handsets to date carries a burden of expectation almost as sizable as its 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen. It promises to be thinner, lighter, and faster than the Galaxy S that preceded it, while garnishing Android 2.3.3 with a set of TouchWiz customizations that might actually enhance, rather than hinder, the user experience.
LG Optimus 3D
LG’s Optimus 3D takes the crown as the world’s most powerful smartphone
Check out our Partner News for more articles on the LG Optimus 3D, including benchmarks performed by AnandTech..
At MWC 2011, LG unveiled the world's first 3D capable phone, the LG Optimus 3D. It has a 4.3" LCD capacitive touchscreen with haptic feedback, 480x800 pixels of resolution, with a glasses-free 3D parallax barrier screen technology and two 5MP cameras on the back.
LG Optimus Black
“Feel” the world's thinnest smartphone
The company says the new phone's 4-inch haptic screen uses a new display technology called NOVA, which it says takes up less space in the phone's design and provides a brighter, clearer interface for the user.
You could "feel" the design with LG Optimus Black – slimmed down to a mere 9.2mm in thickness and record-breaking 109g in weight. The four standard touch-sensitive Android buttons are out at the bottom of the phone once more, with LG’s familiar ‘pop-out window’ style menu key on the left-hand side.
LG Optimus 2X
World's first smartphone with a dual-core CPU
"The world cried out for a dual-core smartphone and LG and NVIDIA answered the call."
Check out our Engadget's review of the LG Optimus 2X.
The LG Optimus 2X comes with a 4 inch WVGA display with touch-sensitive controls and is powered by a ARM Cortex 9 dual core 1 GHZ processor and a Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset.
Nokia 808 Pure View
Pure detail. Pure depth. Pure definition.
"If you haven't been sufficiently smacked in the face with the Nokia 808 PureView's primary selling point, let's settle the score right now: it's a phone for camera enthusiasts."
—Engadget
Nokia has announced Nokia 808 PureView with a whopping 41MP camera sensor. It has 4-inch AMOLED CBD display with Gorilla Glass protection, 1.3GHz processor, Symbian Belle OS, and has exclusive Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia developed algorithms, which will support new high-end imaging experiences. It also includes full HD 1080p video recording and playback, world’s first use of Nokia Rich Recording, and Dolby Digital Plus.
Fujitsu Arrows Tab F-01D
The Waterproof Tablet
"...if you accidentally spill your bottle of water on it or drop it in the toilet while stall surfing, you’re covered."
—Gotta Be Mobile
The Arrows Tab weighs a mere 597 grams, which is impressive considering the fact that this is a 10.1 incher with a touch screen display. It runs Honeycomb 3.2 and supports 3G/4G/LTE. It has a 5 megapixel back facing camera and a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera.
Toshiba Excite LE
Sets a New Design Standard for Thin and Light 10" Tablets
The Toshiba Excite 10 LE is the thinnest, lightest 10-inch tablet yet, an achievement made more impressive by the inclusion of HDMI, Micro-USB, and microSD memory expansion.
"You can rarely go wrong by making a product thinner and lighter. Toshiba, a company whose first foray into Android tablets was a relative behemoth, is showing the world that its designers can do "thin" better than anyone. Yes, even better than Apple. " —CNET
Toshiba Thrive
Honeycomb Tablet Sports a Haptic Display and Laptop Features
Tablets are generally expected to be "thin and light" small computers with unobtrusive interfaces. While we've praised tablets like the iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 10.1 for their sleekness and dinged the HP TouchPad for being too bulky, the Thrive poses an interesting question. Is a bulky tablet inherently a bad thing or can a tablet justify its extra mass?
"Inevitably, whenever a new tablet comes out, we find ourselves asking, "Why would you choose this over everything else?" And to be honest, in a marketplace with so many forgettable options it's not always an easy question to answer. In the case of the Thrive, at least, you've potentially got enough built-in reasons to count on both hands." —Engadget
Mophie Pulse
Stereo Sound and Haptic Vibration for iPod Touch
"Its coolest feature, however, is that it rumbles in a similar manner to your Xbox or PS3 controller, giving you just enough physical feedback to think you're actually driving a car off the track and into a wall."
—A Touch of Rumble, The Wall Street Journal
"The new case promises to bring “bone-shaking” vibrations and “pulse pounding” stereo sound that transfers what’s happening in your games into a more immersive experience." —Slash Gear
Mophie Pulse to Bring ViviTouch Haptics to Your iPhone, iPod Touch