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PDA by HTC

By member: durkbosma Placed on: 25-2-2008 "When calling, the touch screen is still on. Your ear touches the screen and opens all kinds of applications. The solution is simple, just block the touch screen when calling. I have asked at a phone shop and apparently all mobile devices with touch screens suffer from this flaw."

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  • maxim

    maxim February 25, 2008, 4:44 pm "Hi Durk, Buy an Apple iPhone, it doesn't have this problem. It uses a proximity sensor to detect that you are holding the phone to your ear. It then turns off the touch screen!" reply

  • shou

    shou February 26, 2008, 6:53 pm "But sometimes we need to write somethings on the screen when calling. my blog:www.shouhome.cn" reply

  • maxim

    maxim February 26, 2008, 7:56 pm "@ Shou: No problem, when you remove the iPhone from your ear when calling, the touchscreen is activated again." reply

  • TheCalibratedFox

    TheCalibratedFox February 27, 2008, 2:13 am "My Nokia doesn't have a touch-screen, but it can get annoying when you hit the keypad while talking. The solution they have is simple: hit the Menu key and there is an option to lock the keypad. To unlock, you hit a two-key sequence within a certain amount of seconds. This would be pretty easy to do with a touch-screen, too. Don't know why Apple is the only one who seems to have thought about it." reply

  • Ali

    Ali February 28, 2008, 6:58 pm "Adding an accelerometer in mobile devices helps....it helps determining the position of the device and can help develop softwares accordingly...." reply

  • Das

    Das February 28, 2008, 8:48 pm "You can turn of the touchscreen when you are calling. With te touch it is very easy. Just put the power of, you can keep calling, but your screen goes black. This can also been done in the settings. Just look further when you find a problem" reply

  • maxim

    maxim February 28, 2008, 9:11 pm "Hmm. @ Das: Why would Durk have to look further? This is 2008. The system should be smart enough to know that you don't need the touchscreen while the thing is pressed to your ear." reply

  • rafsoaken

    rafsoaken July 1, 2008, 9:02 am "would be interesting to know how fast the percentage of smartphones / touchscreen phones grows compared to "standard phones".." reply

  • maxim

    maxim July 18, 2008, 12:16 pm "Anyone got an idea how the new HTC Diamond is performing on this subject?" reply

  • Wim Nagtegaal

    Wim Nagtegaal August 14, 2008, 12:36 am "It uses some kind off sensor which switches off the display (it has a G sensor and a light sensor, it seems like it uses the G sensor for this). If you make a call it vibrates when connected. Another annoying problem is that when a call comes in it switches on the screen and touch. So when it is in your pocket all kind of strange things happen, have to find a solution for this. An idea could be to switch on the display so you can see who is calling but do not switch on the touch. Then you have to press the 'green' key or the 'red' key to activate it." reply

  • Richard

    Richard August 14, 2008, 9:14 am "Are you serious? The phone blanks the screen when somebody calls?" reply

  • Joeri1976

    Joeri1976 August 21, 2008, 2:24 pm "The screen of the HTC Diamond turns black if u have accepted the call. At that moment u can't see how long u are hanging on the phone. If u call a operator and have to press a number to scroll the operator's menu, u have to touch the green button of your Diamond and have to go to a menu to select your keyboard and then u can press your number, that's annoying, the operator has gone further in the menu already." reply