Synaptics Fuse: Next-Generation Touchscreen Mobile Phone Concept

Synaptics has taken mobile phones to a whole new level with its new concept phone called Fuse. This is in-built with multiple sensors to provide multiple input medias such as users can make commands just by squeezing, griping, flexing and tilting the phone. This is a first mobile phone of this kind. This is in-built with the combination of the newest technologies available today such as multi-touch capacitive sensing, haptic feedback and proximity sensing. Touchscreen and trackpad manufacturer Synaptics has headed up a coalition of interface experts to produce what it calls a ‘next-gen mobile phone concept’.

It packs a 94mm (3.7-inch) WVGA AMOLED touchscreen with a cool interface, rolling icons past the screen like they’re on the surface of a 3D ball. The Fuse mobile phone concept is the result of a unique collaboration between Synaptics and four global partners – The Alloy, The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), Immersion, and Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). With human interface and digital lifestyle in mind, the Fuse design team created a stunning and functional user interface with innovative new modes of sensing input, and visual and haptic feedback.

With these innovative features, the Fuse concept phone could amaze consumers all over the world; however, Synaptics announced that the gadget won’t be available in the market. “It’s not a product but a prototype that showcases a lot of key input technologies,” says Robyn Palmer, marketing specialist for Synaptics. “Our focus was on how to make mobile phones mobile again.”