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Touchscreen phones to reach 20% market share this year

20 April 2009 09:55 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva â€“ APA-Economics. Global touchscreen penetration on mobile phones will surpass 20 per cent this year, a Taiwan-based touch panel maker has claimed.

TJ Lin, Chairman of Young Fast Optoelectronics, added that his 2009 forecast is supposedly double the figure double recorded for 2008, according to a report by Digitimes.

He also claimed that this year 30 per cent of touchscreen mobiles will have capacitive panels â€“ as found on the iPhone - and that 70 per cent will have resistive â€“ as found on Nokiaâ€™s 5800 Express Music.

Much of the growth is due to efforts by Samsung and LG to push touchscreen handsets, Lin claimed. He also identified a growing demand for the touch-sensitive screens in mid and entry-level devices as a driving factor.

The overall touchscreen market could be worth around $3.3bn by 2015, analyst DisplaySearch has previously forecast. The analyst told Register Hardware that Linâ€™s comments are â€œcredibleâ€ and that, albeit in 2007, Young Fast controlled 24.6 per cent of touch panel shipments, with a revenue of $67m (Â£44.8m/â‚¬50.8m)