Samsung SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 With VibeTonz technology

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Samsung introduced the first mobile phones to support touch feedback. The SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 implement VibeTonz technology from a company called Immersion, which previously brought force feedback to console gaming. With VibeTonz, you can download and play mobile games with orchestrated touch sensations to the new handsets. Haptics are implemented through the application development process just like any other feature, such as a sound.

Immersion?s VibeTonz System extends tactile feedback way beyond the capabilities of your typical vibrating cell phone. With it an application developer can independently control both vibration strength and frequency for what the company calls high-fidelity touch sensations.

To enable this level of control you must replace the usual "on/off" pager motor in a handset with Immersion's hardware and control software. The developer enables touch sensitively through a VibeTonz System SDK and a composition tool that addresses a handset-embedded haptic player. The player is what tells the phone when an how much to vibrate.

Immersion offers a reference specification called the VibeTonz Actuator Drive Circuit to show manufacturers how to make what the company calls minor electronic changes to drive a vibration actuator using the VibeTonz System.

The Samsung SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 will ship exclusively in Korea. In addition to VibeTonz, both slide-up phones use a design that allows people to use them in portrait mode and play games in landscape mode. For game play, one hand controls an eight-direction multikey, and the other hand controls dedicated game keys. The phones also sport a mixed graphics capability that displays both 2D and 3D images simultaneously, in addition to a high-resolution color display. There's a 1.3 mega-pixel camera and stereo speakers as well.

A phone for the U.S. market with VibeTonz touch feedback is slated to ship later this month.

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