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Galaxy S7 to Feature Pressure-Sensitive Display Similar to 3D Touch
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Man, I'm sorry but that's the worst link you could use. Samsung patented one particular way to produce a pressure-sensitive touchscreen, by using a film of carbon nanotubes. Did that actually work out as a product? Not so far. Is that what Apple's doing with 3D touch? Nope.
Samsung also didn't 'invent' the idea of a pressure-sensitive touchscreen. Nobody did. It's a pretty bloody obvious extension from the idea of a touchscreen; we've had pressure-sensitive input devices for literally decades.
Apple used a technique that works today. Samsung patented some other technique that never went in to production and may or may not work.
Personally, my annoyance isn't that they're doing a pressure-sensitive screen; it's that they didn't have the imagination to include it before Apple did. They add so much useless garbage to their phones, while pointing out how Apple only adds small incremental features every year. Most of those useless features get killed and it's only the things they copy from Apple that anybody cares about.
I'm willing to give new entrants to the market a lot of leeway to copy so long as they also build on it with good, original ideas. Samsung warped Android outrageously in to an iOS clone, and have spent a decade trying and failing to create interesting, original features that can improve a smartphone.
I would like Apple to have a good top-tier competitor, but one with class. Google used to have it, but since Android they've been forced to take reprehensible positions in cases about standards-essential patents and copyright-ability of APIs, not to mention their attempts to control very broad TLDs, the Open Handset Alliance mafia and their neglect of the AOSP. Google have no class any more.
I'd take a strong Microsoft, though: very original designs, both in hardware and software. Nowadays they would be a competitor you could respect.
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Only difference is, on android, you will have way more flexibility with what the screen can do. Having an open OS and developer system has its perks.
Only problem with android right now is performance. Even the best android phone cant compare to IOS.
Only problem with android right now is performance. Even the best android phone cant compare to IOS.
Who cares, both copy each other. It is what it is...
Samsung really needs to bring back expandable memory in the S7. Its the main reason I haven't got the Note 5 and deciding between the LG V10 and 6S Plus as im extremely long overdue 4 years for a new phone..
Samsung really needs to bring back expandable memory in the S7. Its the main reason I haven't got the Note 5 and deciding between the LG V10 and 6S Plus as im extremely long overdue 4 years for a new phone..
you seem confused -- iphone battery live has progressive improved, *despite* getting thinner.
Yes, you've posted that three times already. And here is the idea Samsung copied- http://iphone.appleinsider.com/arti...sensitive-iphone-touchscreen-in-patent-filing
Does "S7" means that the Samsung Flagship is ONE generation ahead of Apple "6s"? Apple needs to get ahead and rename the next release "8" and "8s".
Sounds mad, but that's exactly what Microsoft did with the Xbox 360. They put the 3 in there to match PS3, despite it being the 2nd generation console.
I'm still not sure what they were thinking with Xbox One, though...
Are you serious? The PS3 wasn't launched for over a year, the name 360 is a complete "revolution". They didn't "put the 3 in there", the 3 came with the term 360. You've really got no leg to stand on with this paranoid concept but there's quite a difference between using marketing tactics and this.
Windows 10 naming was a technical reason. Not a marketing one.
Okay, how is no one else talking about this!
Can we please have this, but obviously better functional on iPhone?
An ultra fast lightning would be cherry on top of my to be iPhone 7 purchase!
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Funny, where did they get that idea?
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...sensitive-iphone-touchscreen-in-patent-filing
Totally serious. They knew PS3 was coming which is why they did it, so it didn't sound inferior being "one less"
And you've just described absolutely nothing to me, there. 360 is a revolution... And..?