Forget the touchscreen. Mitsubishi and NTT DoCoMo have work together and present the touch keys for the mobile phone. The background behind this idea is that modern cell phones with their multiple features have become too complicated. Follows, the user interface is getting too complicated as well. Using the touch keys technology, they hope that it will simplifies things a lot.

The touch keys will show only the associated keys, depend on the main menu. So there’ll be (literally) two displays on the phone. One is the output (the main mobile phone screen), and the other (the touch keys) can take the input and also display keys depending upon the requirement.

If you see the picture above (click to enlarge), you can see that there are 3 fixed buttons. These are shortcuts for immediately accessing the keypad (the numeric keys get displayed on the input screen), for going back and forward. The touch keys also has the possibility of feedback. Upon pressing the buttons on the screen, you can feel that they have been depressed like in a normal keypad.

[ Via Phoneyworld ]