Frankly, I could give a fat rat's ass.
Throw this phone onto the pile of "iPhone copies"...
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![]()
Throw this phone onto the pile of "iPhone copies"...
This is definitely not front page news. I highly suggest it should be moved to page 2.
Why, because it has a touch screen, has a speaker, sends/recieves calls, and plays music ?
It looks nothing like an iPhone!
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 drainDoes 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.
Yeah, and the iPhone would not have appeared if this thing didn't appear first:Um, I think we can safely conclude that if Apple's iPhone had not appeared first, this Samsung phone would not exist.
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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What about blind people? Will they be able to feel the vibrations?
What about blind people? Will they be able to feel the vibrations?