Cypress Semiconductor has announced that the TrueTouch touchscreen solution from Cypress has been selected to implement the touchscreen for two new SoftBank Mobile Corp. phones manufactured by Sharp Communication Systems Group. The new SoftBank 941SH model and the SoftBank 940SH phone join the previous generation SoftBank 931SH model as SoftBank phones with TrueTouch touchscreens.
The SoftBank 941SH phone offers the world’s first 4.0-inch touchscreen that delivers “half-XGA” (1024 x 480) resolution, offering a brilliant, easy-to-navigate display. The phone features up to 54 Mbps high-speed communication for PC-like connectivity and includes an 8-mega pixel camera. The SoftBank 940SH phone offers a 3.4-inch full wide VGA liquid crystal display and includes a high-performance 12.1-mega pixel camera.
“The dazzling display of the SoftBank 941SH is an excellent showcase for the sophisticated, user-friendly multi-touch gestures of our TrueTouch touchscreen solution,” said Norm Taffe, Executive Vice-President of Cypress’s Consumer and Computation Division. “We look for continued success in the next-generation phones of our customers leveraging our established multi-touch all-point technology, and will continue to develop innovative features to help them enrich the end-user’s experience.”
Cypress’s TrueTouch family, based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture, includes single-touch, multi-touch and “multi-touch all-point” offerings. It was the first company to introduce multi-touch all-point functionality, which can track up to 10 simultaneous touches. Cypress has also recently announced its next-generation high-performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family.
