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.
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