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Is the black bezel touch sensitive too?

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matthewHUB

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Hi guys,

I wondered if the space around the screen is touch sensitive and could be used for controls or something either in apps or via future updates.
 
Someone with the sdk could check but there's that whole Nda thing. I'd say not because then Apple would be copying Palm.
 
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kirchnrd said:
matthewHUB said:
well obviously it's not right now. but does the screen extend beyond the viewing area? could it be implemented in the future?
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I seriously doubt it. Need the bezel to hold it, so making it touch sensitive would be a problem.
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I think it's a great idea. You could assign tap zones for a dashboard/expose type activites and create scroll areas of a custom length, which would greatly reduce the amount of travel your hand has to do across the screen.

As far as holding it goes, holding and tapping/scrolling are relatively easily discernable actions as long as any tap/hold action like copy/paste was disabled in the bezel area.
 
Still no. We would know if anything besides the screen was touch sensitive from iFixit's teardown. They also would have told us.
 
kirchnrd said:
I seriously doubt it. Need the bezel to hold it, so making it touch sensitive would be a problem.
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That never stopped Amazon. The Kindle 1 was a festival of accidental page turns. At least with the Kindle 2 they made the buttons trigger inward rather than outward.
 
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