Nokia Haptikos: Other Keypads in Dustbin

Nokia is working on the promising technology that Haptikos. The development, which as been going on for 10 years already, is finally entering its final stages. The new technology will enable the production of sensor displays with tactile feedback when the text is entered. This technology might be the death for average keypads.

At the moment vibrations is used for the feedback. Nokia’s new technology will enable real feedback from the sensor display of the device. To put it simply, your fingers will have the feeling of an average PC keypad while working with a virtual keypad. Yes, you will feel so familiar pushes and clicks!

Roope Takala, the leading manager in Nokia’s  research lab, says that the technology that lies in the heart of the invention is not that complicated. 2 mini piezoelectric sensors are placed under the surface of the sensor display. The purpose of the sensors is to feel the oscillation of the display (with the amplitude of 0.1 mm) and produce the feedback. But such a simple technology raises the question: why did it take over 10 years to invent such a keypad? The major part of the time was taken to tune the display so that the feedback is caused be every single touch on the keypad.

The problem of closing the technology Haptikos to perfection is the way our fingers feel. While typing the fingers experience 2 kinds of feelings – from pressing a button and its back movement. Both these feelings are enabled by the new Nokia’s technology. It seems that the developers have coped with the task successfully: when pressing the buttons of a virtual keypad on the sensor display (Internet- plane-table plane-table was used as a pre-production model) the first investigators were feeling the same as when using an average keypad. When they pressed any button they felt the familiar click and the movement of the button. As the investigators pointed out it was hard to believe that you type on a sensor display, but not on a keypad.

The first platform to be installed with Haptikos will be Nokia S60. Some sources say that Nokia will realize the technology in the forthcoming Nokia S60 Touch phone. At the moment a team of developers is working on the feedback in graphic editors and scrolling.

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