Cypress Korea (Country Manager Lim Young-do www.cypress.com ) announced that its TrueTouch® controller powers the “floating touch™” navigation feature for amazing web browsing on Sony Mobile Communications’ new Xperia™ sola smartphone.

The Xperia Solar smartphone's Floating Touch feature acts like moving a cursor without actually touching the screen, making it the world's first smartphone to allow users to navigate without touching the screen (hovering). Once a desired link is found, the Floating Touch feature can highlight the found link and load the page with a simple tap.

This alleviates the common problem of small links on a mobile phone screen that are very difficult to access. This technology also allows users to operate the Xperia Solar smartphone effortlessly, even while wearing thick gloves, which is a very convenient feature in cold weather. For more details on the Xperia Solar smartphone, including a video demonstrating this unique floating touch navigation feature, please visit http://pressreleases.sonymobile.com/2012/0313/english .

Cypress’s TrueTouch controller enables outstanding new capabilities, along with patent-pending technology unavailable from other vendors. TrueTouch is the only solution capable of performing both self-capacitance and mutual-capacitance measurements on the same device and dynamically switching between the two within an application. These features enable hover and globe touch functions.

“Sony is pleased to offer the world’s first smartphone with Hover functionality. We believe this technology will change the way people interact with their phones, providing new possibilities and features that will dramatically enhance the mobile experience. Cypress’s TrueTouch technology was the means to enable these capabilities, and the Cypress team has been working with Sony on schedule,” said Erik Hellman, Master Engineer at Sony Mobile Communications.

“Cypress TrueTouch technology has the unique ability to support the hover function, and I am pleased to see this technology excellently implemented in Xperia Solar phones,” said Lim Young-do, General Manager of Cypress Korea.