ABI Research says the next five years will see touchscreens becoming as pervasive as WiFi chipsets are in smartphones are today.
In 2006, just 7% of all smartphones had touch-sensitive screens. Last year that figure had increased to 75% - and by 2016 it's expected to reach 97%.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Imagine a mobile phone that can’t be built without the permission of Apple. Impossible? Unrealistic? Not necessarily.
This week, Apple was awarded US patent 7,966,578. It's an application that was originally filed at the end of 2007, almost a year after the iPhone was first revealed.
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RIM has used the first day of the BlackBerry World 2011 event to announce two new BlackBerry Bold smartphones: the Bold 9900 and Bold 9930.
They're the first touch-screen BlackBerry Bold models and are also the first to run the BlackBerry 7 operating system. Both will be available from the summer.
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Research and Markets is the latest company to predict a date when touchscreen phone sales will outnumber non-touch handsets, forecasting that over half of handsets shipped worldwide in 2015 will have touchscreens.
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Last month Motorola claimed that Apple had infringed 18 of its patents, later asking for a number of Apple's patents to be invalidated.
So it's no surprise to hear that Apple has just launched two lawsuits claiming Motorola's Android phones infringe a number of Apple patents.
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