Double Sided Touchscreen Devices Coming?
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Touchscreen devices are becoming more popular each and every year. Apple and Amazon are selling a ton of iPads and Kindles which helps. You can control today’s touchscreen devices from one side. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could use both sides to do so? NTT docomo showed off a prototype smartphone that works through touch on the front and back.
This smartphone is being co-developed by DoCoMo and Fujitsu. As you can see in the above video, controlling the device from the back makes it easier to scroll the screen without covering the display.
You could hold down an icon on the front, and slide on the back to move an icon, or use the message bar, or create a new application. For example, from the front, you can only move the whole Rubik cube like this, but if you slide your finger across the front while holding down the back, you can rotate just one face. So this display makes gripping operations possible.
was explained on Diginfo. This is a work in progress at this point. But having the possibility of using both sides of a screen to control a smartphone or tablet opens up new possibilities for developers. These devices could be better in gaming and business too. No word on when they will hit the market.
