Phones with touch screen – it's not smart phone, it's a separate kind of phones, which often has a communicator only one thing in common – the touch screen. There are, of course, communicators, which can be attributed to phone with a touchscreen, for example, the line Touch. The first touch screen phone was released in 2004 – it models such as the Philips 550. they can be seen at an exhibition in Cannes, devoted to telecommunications. Phones were almost the same, fairly functional, equipped with infrared ports, and cameras. The design is sufficiently original, had a decent time for the memory, polyphonic. In general, everything is standard except for a touch screen. While the main focus of the technology has been on MMS-messages, which had great hopes for the future.
Therefore, these first phones with touch screen were designed primarily for work with MMS-messages. In such phones could touch up something, to make captions for pictures and other things. For young people it was a pretty attractive model. The technology used to create these screens, called Tag-it touch screen. At the same time appeared and a virtual keyboard – a very important feature of the phone. But the touch-screen phones were very expensive, so they were not popular, and for a time were forgotten.
Then a new model of Company Fly – Fly X7. it is an average phone in their functions without the numeric keypad, but it had its own characteristics – such as the ability to recognize handwriting. Prior to that, especially just heaped devices had a opportunity. Then they began to appear other models with touch screens from companies such as Fly, Motorola, Samsung, and finally, iPhone – one of the most controversial phones, but nevertheless, a very popular and almost a cult. Today phones touch screen has become so popular that replacing conventional phones. It is convenient, it's simple and practical, with one hand. On the other hand, is a kind of index image and style.