Portable sliding electronic device operable to disable a touchscreen display when opening and closing the device

A portable electronic device, comprising:

• a first housing;
• a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing, the first housing and the second housing movable between a closed position, an open position and a transition position between the open position and the closed position;
• at least one touchscreen display operable to recognize touch down events when an actuator is in contact with the touchscreen display and to recognize lift up events when the actuator is subsequently removed after touch down events;
• a plurality of positioning objects, wherein each position object in the plurality of positioning objects comprises a different magnetic field strength;
• and
• at least one position sensor operable to detect each of the different magnetic field strengths, and further operable to detect whether the portable electronic device is in the open position, the closed position, or the transition position based on a magnetic field strength triggering point in a plurality of magnetic field strength triggering points corresponding to one of the open position, the closed position, and the transition position being triggered by a corresponding one of the different magnetic field strengths;
• wherein the portable electronic device is operable to:
• register an input command when one of the touch down events is followed by a successive lift up event, and
• disregard the input command when the at least one position sensor detects that the electronic device is in the transition position to disable the touchscreen display.