Freescale Semiconductor announced the industry’s first solution that combines gesture recognition on resistive screen technology and capacitive touch sensing in a single integrated circuit. This ...

Capacitive sensor technology has evolved markedly over recent years, underpinned by advancements in integrated circuit design and novel measurement approaches. These sensors function by detecting ...

The Xtrinsic touch sensing platform is offered as the first solution that combines gesture recognition on resistive screen technology and capacitive touch sensing in a single integrated circuit — ...

Research in Motion has filed for a patent for a touchscreen that combines the technology behind resistive and capacitive touchscreen displays. The scren would use a dual layer resistive panel, but the ...

RIM's no stranger to playing different tricks with touchscreens, and it looks like it may have another up its sleeve, with a recent patent application revealing some plans for a hybrid capacitive / ...

The capacitive vs. resistive touchscreen dispute has been more or less settled with the popularity of the iPhone and other lozenge-shaped touchscreen devices, but that doesn’t mean the loser has to ...

The basic difference between the two is in the way they respond to the touch of your finger. There was a time when people used to have the same mobile phone for years together but that has changed now ...

Smartphones and tablets have made touch-enabled interfaces an integral part of our lives, with touch rapidly becoming the user interface of choice across most applications and industries. A simple ...

Proving that RIM's hybrid capacitive/resistive touchscreen idea isn't the only way to address smartphone display usability, one of HTC's latest patent applications suggests using a new type of stylus ...