Is the black bezel touch sensitive too?

[matthewHUB]

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.

 

[Patrick J]

No.

 

[NYR99]

And that takes care of that. Lol

 

[matthewHUB]

No.

well obviously it's not right now. but does the screen extend beyond the viewing area? could it be implemented in the future?

 

[r0k]

Someone with the sdk could check but there's that whole Nda thing. I'd say not because then Apple would be copying Palm.

 

[kirchnrd]

well obviously it's not right now. but does the screen extend beyond the viewing area? could it be implemented in the future?

I seriously doubt it. Need the bezel to hold it, so making it touch sensitive would be a problem.

 

[mcdj]

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well obviously it's not right now. but does the screen extend beyond the viewing area? could it be implemented in the future?

I seriously doubt it. Need the bezel to hold it, so making it touch sensitive would be a problem.

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.

 

[UltimateSyn]

Still no. We would know if anything besides the screen was touch sensitive from iFixit's teardown. They also would have told us.

 

[omgitscro]

The hardware is not in place. Screen doesn't extend beyond what's visible.

 

[Maaz]

Yep it is. So it the back aluminum and the apple logo.

 

[avaloncourt]

I seriously doubt it. Need the bezel to hold it, so making it touch sensitive would be a problem.

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.