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Testing Finds Inaccurate Touch Sensing on iPhone 5s/5c, But Neglects Perspective Compensation

I've actually noticed this in apps. Buttons towards the edge I sometimes have to press many many times before it actually registers. It's really bad. Interesting that they are basically all this way.
 
This is plain stupid. They are using barrel shaped fingers? Apple does correct touch inputs for the actual contact face of the fingers, which is slightly off to the actual point where the user intends to touch. This is why touching becomes strange on iOS if touched from the wrong side of interface orientation.
 
But what about real world usage? No offence to any robots around here, but I'm no robot and handle my iPhone in various positions, angles, etc. With a real finger too.
 
Maybe this accounts for the sheer amount of posts on the "Damn you autocorrect" blogs
 
Wow people get so defensive :confused:

I have noticed issues with edge responses on numerous occasions. I thought it was my phone and was considering taking it back to get replaced, no need now.
 
Konrad9 said:
They intentionally made their product difficult to use?
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Apple made their products EASIER to use.

Hold your phone at different angles, and try to click your screen. Watch how your thumb or fingers go down on the buttons. They don't go down at 90 degree angles when the phone is at an angle. Just spend a few minutes and you'll realize that where you touch is not where you meant to touch.

That's the difference with Apple products. They take in the human element. Other products just slap some hardware together and hope it works.
 
The horizontal bias is interesting...almost seems like the compensation system favors left-handed use.
 
bbeagle said:
Apple made their products EASIER to use.

Hold your phone at different angles, and try to click your screen. Watch how your thumb or fingers go down on the buttons. They don't go down at 90 degree angles when the phone is at an angle. Just spend a few minutes and you'll realize that where you touch is not where you meant to touch.

That's the difference with Apple products. They take in the human element. Other products just slap some hardware together and hope it works.
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Makes sense actually... On the lower part of the screen your thumb is close to perpendicular... As you go higher the angle becomes more acute in relation to the screen...
 
Glad I'm stuck in a contract till January 2015 with my iPhone5. By then, they'll have something worth upgrading to. I have no intention of using an Android of Windows Mobile but it's things like this that make me perfectly happy to be on a long-running contract. Hopefully they'll have something without these kinds of glaring production errors and bugs. Maybe even make an iPhone6 and and iPhone6 Pro that has the same 16Gb of onboard RAM coupled with micro-SDXC card reader.
 
What a (faux) outrage.

Guess I'll just be a lemming and use my 5s without worries, as it works fine for me and the things I do/ask of the device.
 
" but machine testing does not replicate real world usage "

Nice article pointing out an issue with an Apple product laced with "but"s. I thought I was reading an Appleinsider article for a moment.

For the record the keypad on my 5C feels less accurate to use than the one on my 3GS. For sure the 5C keypad is uglier, looking more like a schematic than a set of keys, but that should not make it less accurate.

Since my 3GS cannot run iOS7 and my 5C cannot run iOS6 there is no way for me to confirm that the OS is the issue. Very possibly the 5C touchscreen is less accurate.

In the apologizing spirit of MacRumors and Appleinsider I will note that the 5C is a fantastic phone. The 3GS seens so old fashioned (mainly because it is).
 
android devices have worse touch by far, scroll vertically down a page and the scrolling jags from side to side on most devices, on an iPhone or iPad it just scrolls down without jagging its way down
 
iSee said:
Once again Apple thumbs its nose at the robot market :mad: ;)
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As I see it, this means the robots will have a harder time using iPhones when they turn on us. I expect Samsung to copy this forward-thinking safety feature before long.
 
MarcBook said:
These tests mean nothing because the iPhone actually registers touches slightly above the centre of where you put your fingertip, an intentional compensation to make it prefer the 'tip' of your finger, rather than the middle of the contact area.

Try tapping buttons with your iOS upside-down (with orientation lock on) and you'll see how different it is. I know the article kinda mentions this feature, but I thought I'd make it clear how it actually works.
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Yep, good call-out, I was going to say the same thing— trying to tap screen targets on an iPad from an upside down perspective demonstrates this very feature clearly.
 
Konrad9 said:
No one is saying Apple is doomed, not even this article. They made what appears to be an objective review of the hardware as a whole.

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They intentionally made their product difficult to use?
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No, they intentionally made their product easy to use while indirectly making their product difficult to use upside down. You should work on your reading comp bud
 
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