Saturday, February 21, 2009

Consumers say no to Touchscreen handsets

Manufacturers of mobile phones are at risk of losing customers on the basis of race to integrate their functions, tactile phones attempt to copy Apple's success, according to a review of clients to collect the client site www. reevoo.com.

More than 19,000 customers were asked to Reevoo.com phones to record and evaluate the 226 telephone number of criteria, including the style and function. Reevoo.com 's analysis of customer information shows that 5 out of ten phones on the bottom of the ten models with touch screen [see. evaluated at the top and bottom side of the phone boxes].

In contrast, only 2 out of ten are phones with touch screens. This high-end phone with a 8.8 on a scale of ten is the Nokia 5220 XpressMusic. The phone has a conventional keyboard. Apple's iPhone is the highest result of the touchscreen phone with a 8.3 on a scale of ten.

The real mobile Reevoo.com category manager, said: "Manufacturers are ready to go to the touchscreen car, but most current efforts are not just right click the buyers. We appear on phones with touch screens and the ability to watch videos on the big screen, but with the active display is difficult to get right, and many buyers complain that the touch interface too fiddly. "

Respondents suggested the criticism of the current phones with touch screens:

"The touch screen is a bit difficult if your fingers are thin and sharp." Virtual "keyboard is the basket, took ages to write anything ... you can always use the five-year period, with small fruit. They used a pencil."

Jerky software, rather than liquid. Accidents often. " If your nails are a little difficult on the keyboard, because it is sensitive to heat and must be used with a finger tip as the key does not work. "

"I found the touch screen and hard physical work, click" was more difficult because of the finger, but the thin, or fat, typically "extend" the pressure.

While manufacturers are investing millions of pounds of R & D resources, and web browsers for mobile phones faster, simpler and software that the average consumer is still only one to find a good phone.

A key feature of the phone to his style, depending on the respondents, 15.3%, compared with the high style. These characteristics are the best compact (14.1%), with a good camera (10.4%), and must be good music (7.7%). Criteria for customers to browse the Internet (1.5%) and features of e-mail (1.2%).

His Reale said: "If the mobile phone manufacturers want to have an impact on the touchscreen stage, we have to listen to what consumers want and respond to the questions they have with the buyers current models touchscreen."

Ten phones per customer rating:

1. Nokia 5220 XpressMusic 2. Nokia E71 3. Sony Ericsson W595 4. Nokia 2680 5. Nokia 3110 Classic 6. SAMSUNG M150 7. Apple iPhone 3G 16GB - Touch Screen 8. LG Renoir KC910 - touch screen 9. Nokia 6600 Slide 10. Nokia 3600

At the bottom ten phones per customer rating:

1. HTC Touch Diamond - Touch Screen 2. Sony Ericsson T303 Coming 3. Samsung Armani - touch screen 4. Sony Ericsson C702 5. Nokia 6124 Classic 6. BlackBerry Storm 9500 - Touch Screen 7. Samsung i900 Omnia - touchscreen 8. Nokia N96 9. SAMSUNG U600 10. Samsung F490 - Touchscreen

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