msmobiles.com Podcast 176 - interview with Chief Marketing Officer of HTC
You can head over to msmobile.com to listen to the latest interview with John Wang from HTC who is not only a Chief Marketing Officer but also Chief Technology Wizard and inventor of new touch screen technology from HTC - TouchFlo !
The HTC Touch is the first device to feature TouchFLO, the new underlying touch screen technology developed by HTC. Consumers simply sweep their finger up the display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising three screens: Contacts, Media and Applications. The interface can be spun by swiping a finger right or left across the display, providing efficient access to the features consumers use most. TouchFLO also enhances finger touch scrolling and browsing of Web pages, documents, messages and contact lists.
Highlights from this interview include:
- Multi-touch at HTC
- Texting with HTC Touch
- HTC portfolio of phones explained
- Recognizing differences between “skin touch” and “stylus touch”
- Length of fingernails in relation to gestures in touch screen usage
- Will exporting ROM image from HTC Touch to other HTC phone work?
- Jason Gordon from HTC USA joined-in and offered additional comments during the interview
- Synaptics technology used in notebook touchpads compared to HTC’s touch technologies
- Active digitizer in HTC Shift
- Having both at the same time - active digitizer and passive digitizer (touch screen) - in future HTC products
- Why HTC is not releasing: a) small-size phones with VGA display, b) phones with touch screen and without QWERTY keyboard for single-handed usage (not slide-out!)
- Grabbing, throwing and stopping content in the HTC Touch
- Software development kit (SDK) to develop applications that support new touch screen technology of HTC !
Listen to the Podcast HERE!


The HTC Touch is the first device to feature TouchFLO, the new underlying touch screen technology developed by HTC. Consumers simply sweep their finger up the display to launch an animated, three-dimensional interface comprising three screens: Contacts, Media and Applications. The interface can be spun by swiping a finger right or left across the display, providing efficient access to the features consumers use most. TouchFLO also enhances finger touch scrolling and browsing of Web pages, documents, messages and contact lists.
















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