Touch control is turning Japanese, I really think so!

Apologies for the shocking pun in the title - just for a microsecond, I was feeling a bit funny…

Synaptics announced today that its ClearPad™ solution is driving the interactive touchscreen in NTT DOCOMO’s new Sharp SH906i clamshell handset. The SH906i uses Synaptics’ ClearPad technology to enable finger-input character recognition capabilities for Japanese character entry. The combination of the SH906i character recognition software and Synaptics ClearPad solution improves usability for regions with more complex alphabets. Capacitive sensing-enabled text entry allows the user to access and control any number of applications and menus on a handheld device in an efficient and intuitive manner — it is fast, easy to use, and accurate without a stylus. Synaptics’ ClearPad sensors recognize a variety of gesture input for an effortless user interface. OEMs can customize their device user interfaces using Synaptics’ growing gesture library, which includes gestures such as flick and pinch. The SH906i, for example, uses flick to flip though channels and adjust volume on its mobile-television application.

Hmm, well nothing revolutionary in terms of touch control, save for perhaps the ability to deliver Japanese character entry - something I imagine that would have taken some coding to enable!

[Via: 3G.co.uk]