Immersion Corporation's
haptic (touch) technology is now available for Android
Both content developers and makers of Android-based
mobile phones can now add haptics. Immersion claims haptics has been found to increase user speed,
accuracy, and satisfaction as well as make operation more intuitive,
engaging, and fun.
Immersion's VibeTonzPlatform, which enables touch feedback for the
user interface and for applications throughout the phone, is already in
over 40 million handsets.
Its Android solution further extends the
reach of the company's touch feedback system, already available for the
Symbian, Windows Mobile, and LiMo OS platforms.
Using Immersion touch feedback technology, device makers can create
highly differentiated, personalized, easy-to-use handsets. Operators
and content developers can also gain strong advantages. Improvements
are possible for touchscreen and keypad interactions, messages and
alerts, scrolling, ringtones, games, music, and video across
applications including e-commerce, social networking, location-based
services, and mobile advertising.
About the VibeTonz Platform (www.immersion.com/mobility/products)
The field-proven VibeTonz Platform, comprised of VibeTonz Mobile
Player and VibeTonz SDK, delivers a broad range of touch feedback
effects to make user interface features, applications, and
downloadable, multimedia content more intuitive and engaging. Embedded
in mobile devices, VibeTonz Mobile Player exerts precise, high-speed
control over the vibration actuator to produce tactile effects with
unprecedented subtlety and dynamics. VibeTonz SDK provides
cross-platform APIs and a suite of authoring tools for making
development and customization of tactile feedback fast and easy.