Prevention of accidental device activation

A device, comprising:

• a touch screen display;
• a touch-sensitive wakeup area;
• a controller coupled to the wakeup area for determining whether a human touched the wakeup area;
• an application processor coupled to the controller for recovering from sleep mode and simultaneously unlocking the touch screen display in response to a human touch of the wakeup area.

A method of activating and unlocking a mobile phone, comprising:

• disabling a touch screen area of the mobile phone when the mobile phone is in a sleep mode of operation;
• monitoring a wakeup area of the mobile phone;
• detecting input received from a touching of the wakeup area, the input including a voltage received from a capacitor;
• determining if the input received is from a human touch by checking whether the voltage exceeds a predetermined voltage;
• if the input received is not from a human touch, ignoring the input;
• and
• if the input received is from a human touch, simultaneously enabling the touch screen area and unlocking the mobile phone.