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モバイルデバイスのタッチ画面は、AppleのiPhoneのようなアイコン的な携帯電話の魅力や、AppleのiPadやブラックベリーのプレイブックなどのメディアタブレットの登場によって、再びの活況を呈してきた。デバイス機能の増加に伴う、より直感的なインターフェースとパーソナライズオプションの要望の高まりや、タッチコンポーネントとパネルのASPの低下などの様々な要因に促進されて、モバイルデバイスへのタッチスクリーンの普及は進んでいるが、デバイスセグメントやタッチ技術、スクリーン技術、または地域毎によって普及率は異なるだろう。米国の調査会社ABIリサーチの調査レポート「モバイルディスプレイとタッチスクリーン」は、携帯電話、スマートフォン、電子書籍、ウルトラモバイルデバイスなどのタッチスクリーン技術の利用について調査している。デバイスセグメント毎や地域毎のタッチスクリーンの普及率予測や、電磁誘導授受方式、抵抗膜方式と静電容量結合方式、赤外線型などの様々なタッチスクリーン技術の利用、それぞれのタッチスクリーンの特徴や長所と短所の分析、OEM技術の選択傾向について記載している。

Touch screen technology for mobile devices has gone through a renaissance, largely due to the fascination surrounding iconic mobile phones such as Apple’s iPhone and the rise of media tablets such as the Apple iPad and Blackberry Playbook. Driven by a number of trends, including the growing desire for more intuitive interfaces and personalization options as device functionality increases, as well as decreasing ASPs for touch components and panels, the penetration of touch screens in mobile devices will continue to increase at varying rates, depending on device segment and touch and screen technology, as well as geographic region.

This study addresses the use of touchscreen technologies in handsets, smartphones, e-readers, and ultra-mobile devices. Data includes forecasts for touchscreen penetration across device segments and regions. The use of different touchscreen technologies such as EMR, resistive, capacitive, infrared and more are highlighted. The capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses of differing touchscreen implementations are analyzed and trends in OEM technology choices are tracked.

What Questions Does This Report Answer?

• What is the penetration of touch screens in mobile device segments including Mobile Phones, Smartphones, Media Tablets, eReaders and PNDs?
• How do unit shipment and market revenue levels for touch screens compare across the different mobile device classes?
• How will the penetration of touch screens in mobile phones differ regionally?
• What is the growth rate of touch screens in basic mobile phones?
• How will the use of the different touch screen technologies evolve by device class?
• How do the competing touch technologies compare from the standpoints of functionality and application?
• How do device shipment volumes affect what touch screen technology is used?
• What is the promise for other touch screen technologies, such as SAW and Bending Wave, to be incorporated into mobile devices?
• Who are the leading touch screen manufacturers and in what technologies do they specialize?

Who Needs This Report?

• Mobile hardware vendors: handset manufacturers, consumer electronic vendors, portable computer makers
• Touch screen sensor, module, and panel manufacturers
• Mobile operators
• Mobile platform and software vendors
• Content service providers

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97% of All Smartphones Will Have Touchscreens by 2016

NEW YORK - August 26, 2011
​Touchscreens can claim as much credit for the booming success of smartphones as can 3G data speeds. In the time prior to the launch of the original iPhone, smartphones with touchscreens have gone from 7% of the total smartphone volume in 2006 to 75% in 2010, and were a key driver to the market growing more than 325% over that period. Over the next five years, touchscreens will be as pervasive in smartphones as Wi-Fi chipsets are today, reaching 97% of all smartphones by 2016.

The screen is the point of fulfillment for all that a mobile device promises to deliver to its user, so there is little surprise in the impact it can have on its success. However, it was the evolution of screen and touch technologies that triggered the market’s rapid growth. The more economical resistive touch technology has been almost universally replaced in smartphones with the more elegant projected capacitive technology that was first introduced in mobile phones through the iPhone.

Screen and touch technologies continue to evolve and are starting to reshape the markets for other classes of mobile devices. “Low-cost capacitive touch controllers that use just a single layer of sensors instead of two, and save as much as 30% on the cost, are opening the market for lower-end feature phones. And eReaders, which are the most fragmented device category in both display and touch technology, now have options that not only enable finger touch, but are at a cost that could standardize the segment’s displays,” says Kevin Burden, vice president, mobile devices.

ABI Research’s new report “Mobile Displays and Touchscreens” studies the emerging display and touchscreen technologies targeted at smartphones, handsets, eReaders, media tablets, and PNDs. It examines the use of competing technologies such as EMR, ERT, resistive, capacitive, and SAW and takes the pulse of those technologies still in lab development. It provides unit shipments and attach rates by technology and region across the various mobile device segments.

It is part of the Smartphones and Mobile Devices Research Service.