Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The TouchFLO Inventor

John Wang is now a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of HTC and by some is also called "Chief Technology Wizard" at HTC. Two years ago he started work on improvements of user interface and the result of this work - HTC Touch and TouchFLO technology - has been unveiled and released today! John Wang is the person, who designed/developed this new touch screen technology of HTC!

To listen to this interview click HERE. Here are some highlights from this interview:
  • 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 !



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