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

RedOrchestra said:
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.
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The beauty of R&D is that once something is figured out, you don't have to figure it out again.

Of course, I suspect you already know that and are just looking for a way to somehow spin this against Apple.
 
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ChrisCW11 said:
Well if both Apple and Samsung have a patent for the same technology, then the problem is not corporate copying, its the patent office for not doing due diligence to filter out duplicate patents.

In any case Samsung has about as much right to product a pressure sensitive touch screen as Apple because they hold a patent for it.
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They are different implementations. Samsung read Apples patent, thought it was a good idea and found a different implementation for a similar process.
 
Rigby said:
Interesting comment ... given that Apple avoided calling it "Force Touch" and renamed it to "3D Touch" because Huawei had Force Touch first. :p
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I'm pretty sure Force Touch is used to describe the pressure sensitive touch technology on Apple Watches and Trackpads (out well before Huawei released those phones) - it's called 3d touch because it has more granularity than the simple force touch 2 step pressure sensitivity
 
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And Samsung wonders why it keeps getting sued by Apple with the court ruling in favor of apple.
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Samsung's flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge due early next year will feature a pressure-sensitive display that functions similarly to 3D Touch on iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The next-generation Android-based smartphones will reportedly also feature high-speed USB-C ports that provide up to a full day's charge in under 30 minutes, and improved cameras that are optimized for low-light photography.

The report claims the Galaxy S7 will look similar to the Galaxy S6, but the rear-facing camera is said to be flush with the back of the device. The handset may also feature a retina scanner for new biometric features involving a user's eyes.

The Wall Street Journal says the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge will launch in the U.S. in March, possibly around the time Apple introduces the so-called "iPhone 6c" and next-generation Apple Watch. Samsung is expected to announce the new devices around the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona in late February.

Samsung's Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge would compete with the rumored "iPhone 7," which could ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack in favor of an all-in-one Lightning connector alongside a faster A10 chip, new Intel LTE modem and possibly thinner design. Apple's next flagship smartphones will likely be released next September.

Article Link: Galaxy S7 to Feature Pressure-Sensitive Display Similar to 3D Touch
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sk1wbw said:
It doesn't matter. Plenty in the Android Legion claim Android had it first anyway.
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Sadly this is true for both sides of the fence...and, at least as a customer, I realy could not care less who implemented a feature first. All I care about is if the product I use has the features I want implemented in a way that benefits me...with everything else, let those multibillion dollar comanys whine about who stole their binkie and sue each other blind...
 
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Iconoclysm said:
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
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http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-how-apple-built-3d-touch-iphone-6s/
“Ultimately, this is our focus,” says Ive, squeezing a new iPhone 6S. “This is what galvanizes our efforts right across the company.” And 3D Touch, he adds with emphasis, “is something we’ve been working on for a long time—multi, multi, multi years.”
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Can we really use patent application dates to ascertain when a company started work on a certain feature or piece of technology?
 
igorsky said:
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.
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And I guess Apple ripped off Loop Pay?

Everybody steals from everybody in this industry. They have to, since you are quickly left behind if you can't tick off the checkboxes ...
 
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Phil A. said:
I'm pretty sure Force Touch is used to describe the pressure sensitive touch technology on Apple Watches and Trackpads (out well before Huawei released those phones) - it's called 3d touch because it has more granularity than the simple force touch 2 step pressure sensitivity
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I have Force Touch on my Macbook Pro. It has more than 2 step pressure sensitivity as well, so that alone can't be it. Of course the implementation is quite different on a touch display than a touchpad, but the effect is pretty much the same. Perhaps Huawei has filed a trademark on "Force Touch" for phones.
 
soupcan said:
And the photocopier rolls in.

Watch how dev support will be exactly 0 for this.
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You're completely wrong on this. Support will be 100%. The fact that you said dev support will be 0 shows how much you don't understand. This is not an exclusive feature, it's a new techonology every phone will have in 1 year. In fact, not only phones, every touch screen device will have this feature, every touch screen is going to be pressure-sensitive.
 
Iconoclysm said:
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.
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Not true, the 360 might have been a "revolution" but the choice to name it 360 was purely marketing to compete with the PS3.
 
Ooooh no, not this again. S6 is a design rip off iPhone 6 -_- Same simple menu on OS No battery changement, No memory slot. HTC has also just copyed iPhone 6 design with their A9 :/
 
Iconoclysm said:
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.
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Because Microsoft would never skip a number in a product because of marketing reasons. How are you enjoying Windows 9?
 
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