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Samsung Introduces New 'Haptic' Touch Phone
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Sometimes one type of vibration is good enough. Some people want more than 20... Ahem. So many straplines (It's good to touch, even better to feel) ... (Ad to Beach Boys - "I'm picking up good vibrations..."
The bonus is it's most likely licensed from Immersion Corporation to Samsung (rather than a sub group of Samsung providing it). So it's potentially licensable to Apple if they want it. I guess in gaming it could be used, but unless it's deemed useful enough, it ain't gonna be in an iPhone.
The bonus is it's most likely licensed from Immersion Corporation to Samsung (rather than a sub group of Samsung providing it). So it's potentially licensable to Apple if they want it. I guess in gaming it could be used, but unless it's deemed useful enough, it ain't gonna be in an iPhone.
Why the article now? I mean a lot of phones have been coming out with haptic feedback. Most notably LG phones like the Voyager, Chocolate, Venus, Prada, etc.
the Anycall add uses the same Daft Punk track they use in Kitten Cannon:
http://www.burststudio.com/kitten.html
http://www.burststudio.com/kitten.html
Talk, Play, Love
I'm just waiting for Apple to pick up that tag line that you see at the end of the commercial. In Korean, maybe.
I'm just waiting for Apple to pick up that tag line that you see at the end of the commercial. In Korean, maybe.
This is probably one of those features that 90% of people on here will hate unless Apple include it in a future iPhone. Then it will become the best thing a phone could ever have
Oh did you hit the nail exactly on the head
Why, because it has a touch screen, has a speaker, sends/recieves calls, and plays music ?
It looks nothing like an iPhone!
I could see how this might make future games a little more interesting. As far as for tactile feedback it's just a gimmick I would hate to see any future iPhones use this if it would add to cost or size and or reduce battery life. This is equivalent to having a keyboard that beeps every time you hit a key it's a fad that will die out before you know it.
Does anyone know what the battery life claims are of this Samsung SCH-W420 AnyCall? (And is it 3G? I'm not familiar with Korea's norms.) Maybe that would tell us how taxing all this vibration is on the battery.
Agreed.
Um, I think we can safely conclude that if Apple's iPhone had not appeared first, this Samsung phone would not exist.
Agreed.
Um, I think we can safely conclude that if Apple's iPhone had not appeared first, this Samsung phone would not exist.
I'm not sure I get this feature. If you don't get feedback in the exact area you press, what good is it? So if I press [1] on the touch keypad, the whole phone shakes. It will do the same if I press [7]. I don't think this solves any problems.
The challenge many have with using touch screens is that they can't feel the keys before they touch them. I don't see how having the whole phone shake every time you touch it helps, even if the shakes are a little different each time. Unless they've figured out a way to localize the feedback to the exact area you touched- that would work.
The challenge many have with using touch screens is that they can't feel the keys before they touch them. I don't see how having the whole phone shake every time you touch it helps, even if the shakes are a little different each time. Unless they've figured out a way to localize the feedback to the exact area you touched- that would work.
Its probably 3G. Also, this haptic feedback is not really new. My old LG Chocolate has it. I can't imagine that it won't cause a noticeable drain
Yeah, and the iPhone would not have appeared if this thing didn't appear first:
That doesn't that make the iPhone a copy. Its called technology.
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Barbie can sort herself out
Haptic? What is that all about? Wait... I don't care. I've handled an iPhone and I like the fact that it's easy to work out precisely how much and how little pressure is required to activate a touch screen key. iPhone immediately inspires confidence this way. And by 'immediately' I mean immediately. You want one as soon as you handle it. There's no room for doubt.
Then there are the copycats. See the crap linked here [it even has an iPod wheel icon!!] and the others I mentioned in my last rant on this subject. As the assistant hands me one, he also hands me a little plastic wand! Eew! No no no. I'd rather go to rehab. Take it away. I had one of those for my green screened Palm ten years ago. It was novel then - it's naff now, really naff.
The next one did a little buzz as I touched the screen, the kind of buzz one imagines might excite a Barbie doll - again, novel at first and then, within 30 seconds, I'm thinking: Battery charge thief. Barbie can sort herself out.
But here's the thing: this buzz didn't happen every time I touched the screen - only when I got the pressure and duration exactly right. And this seemed to vary from icon to 'key' to list item. Haptic my arse. Samsung have polished another turd and, worse, this time they've given it a name!
There's really no excuse for this and the experience left me with one conclusion: Where iPhone does it with simplicity, the copycats add millions of features and imitation Mac icons. Nasty. There's really no competition.
Innovate you stupid people, innovate.
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Haptic? What is that all about? Wait... I don't care. I've handled an iPhone and I like the fact that it's easy to work out precisely how much and how little pressure is required to activate a touch screen key. iPhone immediately inspires confidence this way. And by 'immediately' I mean immediately. You want one as soon as you handle it. There's no room for doubt.
Then there are the copycats. See the crap linked here [it even has an iPod wheel icon!!] and the others I mentioned in my last rant on this subject. As the assistant hands me one, he also hands me a little plastic wand! Eew! No no no. I'd rather go to rehab. Take it away. I had one of those for my green screened Palm ten years ago. It was novel then - it's naff now, really naff.
The next one did a little buzz as I touched the screen, the kind of buzz one imagines might excite a Barbie doll - again, novel at first and then, within 30 seconds, I'm thinking: Battery charge thief. Barbie can sort herself out.
But here's the thing: this buzz didn't happen every time I touched the screen - only when I got the pressure and duration exactly right. And this seemed to vary from icon to 'key' to list item. Haptic my arse. Samsung have polished another turd and, worse, this time they've given it a name!
There's really no excuse for this and the experience left me with one conclusion: Where iPhone does it with simplicity, the copycats add millions of features and imitation Mac icons. Nasty. There's really no competition.
Innovate you stupid people, innovate.
G
Samsung introduced a new touch-screen mobile phone called the SCH-W420 AnyCall (Youtube commercial). The new phone is available only in Korea at the moment, but incorporates a growing trend in mobile phone devices: vibration feedback.
Described as 'Haptic' phones, these specialized phones offer customized vibration to provide the user with specific types of touch-feedback. This sort of feedback is intended to make up for the absence of tactile feedback from an entirely smooth touch surface, such as on the iPhone.
22 different kinds of these "haptic feedback" vibrations are said to be included with this latest Samsung phone.
One user project attempted to emulate this functionality on the iPhone, but without specialized hardware, the results have been disappointing.
While there have been no indication that Apple has specifically explored using this technology, Apple has worked on tactile feedback systems that would ease the transition to flat-surface touch keyboards.
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Touch screens for blind people...
Will someone please explain to me how that one's going to work?
Shakes head in disbelief.
Will someone please explain to me how that one's going to work?
Shakes head in disbelief.
It's just a gimmick.
What's the point of having haptic feedback on a device that you will need to look at just to see where the buttons are? Sure if its a device with physical buttons, when shoved in your pocket and you press said buttons, you would want that vibration to tell that you've actually done something.
Plus, how long have touch screens been around? For ages, and now they are just deciding to add this feedback?
What's the point of having haptic feedback on a device that you will need to look at just to see where the buttons are? Sure if its a device with physical buttons, when shoved in your pocket and you press said buttons, you would want that vibration to tell that you've actually done something.
Plus, how long have touch screens been around? For ages, and now they are just deciding to add this feedback?
hehehehe..its interesting to c how Apple can spawn a technology race...hehehe..next thing u see may be private telephone companies
opening up iPhoneBooth along the streets...
New iPhone pick up line:
" Hey baby, u look like my iPhone...stunning, slim and as sexy as the iPhone..
and when I touch u.....u get turned on"
opening up iPhoneBooth along the streets...
New iPhone pick up line:
" Hey baby, u look like my iPhone...stunning, slim and as sexy as the iPhone..
and when I touch u.....u get turned on"