Call & Network Status: Touch indications

Sight and Sound Are Overloaded

Alerts, beeps, flashing LEDs, and cryptic status icons are supposed to keep users informed of call progress, network connectivity, roaming state, battery level, and so on. A lot of it gets ignored altogether.

It becomes a problem when the thing they really ought to care about gets lost in that clutter, or is invisible because of the way they’re using the handset at that moment. For example, everyone has experienced chatting away for a good stretch of seconds before realizing finally that the call has been dropped; you had been speaking to nobody but yourself. Likely there was a visual indication of the status change on your phone’s screen, but you wouldn’t have seen that, what with the phone at your ear.

How Haptics Helps

Phones with the TouchSense® System can use tailor-made tactile cues to convey call and network information subtly yet unmistakably.