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Japanese firm develops thinnest switches for smartphones

Xinhua, March 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Japan's major smartphone switch manufacturer Citizen Electronics has developed new switches for smartphones that have achieved "a world top-class thinness and miniaturization," the company said on Wednesday.

Pursuing further reduction in thickness and weight is seen as a common goal on the smartphone market. The wearable device market has been also expanding recently. "Therefore, reduction in size and thickness of parts has been important," the company said in a statement.

In response to these market needs, Citizen Electronics has developed two types of switches, side-push and top-push types. As high reliability is required for switches, these switches have achieved thinness and miniaturization while maintaining existing achievements, such as the sensation of clicking, and waterproof and dust-proof properties.

Moreover, their reliability in the areas of strength and service life has been improved.

"These two products contribute to reduction in size, thickness and weight of high-end to low-end models of smartphones and wearable devices," said the Japanese smartphone switch manufacturer with a global market share of some 40 percent.

Shipment of samples of the new switches will start in April, it said. Endi