Galaxy S7 to Feature Pressure-Sensitive Display Similar to 3D Touch

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

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..

Not gonna happen. They, like Google with the Nexus, have realized that it's far more profitable to charge for the storage than let users add their own.

It also means no headaches with dealing with running apps from memory cards and the "where is that file stored" problems they see. Much less support crap to deal with.

With things going more and more to the cloud, most users don't need the internal storage as much. The average user uses less than 10 apps a week. There isn't the need for storing a million apps and most of the other stuff goes in the cloud.

 

[samcraig]

Okay how is no one else talking about this!
Can we please have this, but obviously better functional on iPhone 7?
An ultra fast lightning would be cherry on top of my to be iPhone 7 purchase!

"Obviously better functional" - I'd love to read your explanation on how this could better implemented on the iPhone. As opposed to just implemented. By better do you mean faster? Because I really don't see much "functionality" when it comes to charging. It's either charging or it's not charging. The only real KPI to change would be amount of time.

 

[Iconoclysm]

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..?

You speak this as if it is fact. I worked for Microsoft for 6 years, am a gamer, read about this sort of thing daily and never once heard ANYTHING like that. Link please.

I would believe you if you said it's the reason they didn't name it the Xbox 2....but the "3" as some subliminal number is just absurd.

 

[patseguin]

This even news? It was a foregone conclusion that Samsung was going to copy Apple yet again when they came out with 3D touch. It should be titled "Samsung S7 to copy yet more features from Apple"

 

[Gasu E.]

Cmd C + Cmd V = $$$

Only Apple fanbois would say this.

To everyone else, it's Ctrl C + Ctrl V.

 

[igorsky]

http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-patent-pressure-sensitive-touchscreens-354860/

Apple doesn't invent anything FIRST.

You're right...they release something when it works well. They don't need to rush features out to one-up their competitors, unlike Samsung who releases any crap feature just beat Apple to it. And that strategy has really paid off for them

 

[Iconoclysm]

Cool Story Bro. Except Apple filed a patent for it in July, 2012.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=33&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(345/173.CCLS.+AND+20140130.PD.)&OS=ccl/345/173+and+pd/1/30/2014&RS=(CCL/345/173+AND+PD/20140130)

To be fair, that was the patent that leads to the touch functionality in the Apple Watch - it isn't location sensitive. The newer patent is what we see currently in the 6S and was filed in January 2014: http://appleinsider.com/articles/14...sensitive-iphone-touchscreen-in-patent-filing

 

[samcraig]

You're right...they release something when it works well. They don't need to rush features out to one-up their competitors, unlike Samsung who releases any crap feature just beat Apple to it. And that strategy has really paid off for them

Oh I don't know. They've had their misses. Apple Maps wasn't exactly ready for prime time. Double edged sword. One can say Samsung just throws a bunch of features out there to see what sticks. On the flip side - they aren't afraid of taking risks by doing so. And then they refine or look at what their competitors are doing to fine tune. Different companies. Different models. Both have their benefits and downsides.

 

[Tech198]

Does Samsung need to do everything Apple does?

- pressure sensitive screen (3D touch pop and peek like behavior)
- flush camera (while iPhone 6 and 6 Plus produce a bit, its still better than the hooking "lens" on the Galaxy phones)
- eliminate 3.5mm headphone jack for USB-C audio (bad move, but Android uses will now feel the heat her too as we Apple users will)

I would have thought Samsung would actually know that eliminating a jack we are all used to, and have been forever, is not the future...

We need to keep 3.5mm headphones round anyway, unless stereo systems in our homes start implementing USB-C.. Car manufactures will get there sooner. Either way, it won't be a change overnight. We will all start seeing adapters 3.5 to USB-C to connect out headphones too.

And here i am, thinking we live in a world where we don't need to carry all these adapters with us...

I was wrong there. We will start loosing them.

 

[indiekiduk]

So they even copy the crap features no one uses.

 

[Jsameds]

You speak this as if it is fact. I worked for Microsoft for 6 years, am a gamer, read about this sort of thing daily and never once heard ANYTHING like that. Link please.

There is no link, it's my opinion. Working for MS, being a gamer and not hearing about it doesn't mean I'm not right. To me at least it makes sense.

They went straight to Xbox 360 from Xbox, one has to wonder why. 'Because it's a revolution' doesn't quite wash with me. Because two is less than three makes sense from a marketing perspective.

 

[nia820]

Samsung has had pressure sensitive technology in their note series phones for a while now. Nothing new. It's just no one cared about it because notes are not as popular as iPhones.

People need to stop this Samsung is copying apple crap. Yeah Samsung does copy Apple. But Apple copies things not only from Samsung but from the entire android family.

They all copy each other. They only platform innovating is windows phone but they are handicapped by their awful app selection.

 

[macintologist]

It's probably going to suck.

 

[DaveMcM76]

Oh I don't know. They've had their misses. Apple Maps wasn't exactly ready for prime time.

Apple maps is a bit different - as I remember it Apple had their hand forced a bit by the timing of their Maps app contract with Google expiring and ultimately decided it was better to release their own version early and fix it as they went along than have to sign a new deal with Google and lose the new turn by turn functionality, etc as Google seemed reluctant to bring it to their version of the Maps app.

 

[bernuli]

This seems like a pretty good phone. I like the flush camera lens idea.

 

[yaboyac29]

I wonder if removing the headphone jack is a rumour Apple started just so Samsung does it first in the spring and then everyone laughs when the next iPhone has one

 

[Rigby]

Neat part is they're going to call theirs Force Touch as well, but they will say it was brought to us by the Jedi in order to skirt the lawsuit....

Interesting comment ... given that Apple avoided calling it "Force Touch" and renamed it to "3D Touch" because Huawei had Force Touch first.

 

[Chad-VI]

How surprising.

 

[blairh]

We all now Apple is most likely going thinner with the iPhone 7. And that means probably the same battery life as the current iPhone's. So they really need to give us fast charging to combat that.

 

[RedOrchestra]

This is a pretty funny story - Samsung offering up force touch on their next Galaxy iteration - a technology that Jony Ive told us Apple took several years to develop - couldn't be much behind the technology if Samsung will have it offered within a few months.

 

[BlueGoldAce]

I love my apple products, and don't plan on changing.

That being said...come one guys, they both copy each other. Do you really think 3d touch wouldn't be copied and used in other phones?

Are you guys going to trash Apple when they add wireless charging, fast charging, a curved screen, etc? No you won't, just like you didn't when Apple added split window view on the iPad (Samsung did it first), Airdrop (Samsung), etc. Lets not get into what Apple has copied from Android as a whole, and vice versa.

Just enjoy and move on. You would think Samsung just stepped on your puppy.....isn't there more important things to get upset about?

 

[Jsameds]

Interesting comment ... given that Apple avoided calling it "Force Touch" and renamed it to "3D Touch" because Huawei had Force Touch first.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...-is-Apples-Taptic-Engine-and-Force-Touch.html

 

[igorsky]

Interesting comment ... given that Apple avoided calling it "Force Touch" and renamed it to "3D Touch" because Huawei had Force Touch first.

3D S-Touch? Actually I have to say the most entertaining part of Samsung's sleaze tactics is that blatant ripoffs of names. I mean Samsung Pay...that's a classic and shining example of Samsung's innovating naming conventions.

 

[macfacts]

So if the next iPhone has a flush camera lens, I can expect the same number of comments about copying?

 

[Muscle Master]

Why is everyone making it seem like 3Dtouch is all that revolutionary... Peek and Pop my ass!!! I hardly ever used that ****. As far as innovation goes its a miss to me and honestly compared to the garbage edge screen which a case makes useless.., Samsung won on a doingsomething different note

I have been an iPhone user since the 4S and im juet not interested anymore, me personally im waiting for a premium version of the blackberry bold runniny running android. Miss my keyboard