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Apple Working on Touchless Control and Curved iPhone Screen (bloomberg.com)
Apple might be working on touchless gesture control and curved screens for future iPhones, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. From a report: The control feature would let iPhone users perform some tasks by moving their finger close to the screen without actually tapping it. The technology likely won't be ready for consumers for at least two years, if Apple chooses to go forward with it, a person familiar with the work said. Apple has long embraced new ways for humans to interact with computers. Co-Founder Steve Jobs popularized the mouse in the early 1980s. Apple's latest iPhones have a feature called 3D Touch that responds differently depending on different finger pressures. The new gesture technology would take into account the proximity of a finger to the screen, the person said. Apple is also developing iPhone displays that curve inward gradually from top to bottom, one of the people familiar with the situation said. That's different than the latest Samsung smartphone screens, which curve down at the edges.
Apple knows what you are thinking.
Now it will act on it.
Oh wait, just another stolen idea.
Is there a point to it or are they just out of real ideas?
I get the marketing angle, I'm sure Apple buyers won't want to be seen dead holding one of those traditional flat screens from last year.
What I'm wondering is if there's anything more than that.
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What's the advantage of not touching your display? I mean, aside of fewer greasy fingerprints.
Sorry, I don't see the huge advantage, could anyone clue me in?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Will Apple also be working on the ridiculously high pricing of their iPhone models?
Because Apple didn't copy it from Samsung....
He predicted this! I can't find the quote but something about radios removing knobs and buttons from the radio so you have to hold your hand in one place for it to work. I for one am thrilled to enjoy the ambiguity of gesture interpretation.
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I like it. This way I can tell what UI element I am about to touch before I actually perform the finger press. This is genius.
Siri still bites, no workstation level computer (mac pro), iOS is getting bloated and the Home Pod is a flop. But sure, curved screens, work on that...
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Yep this is a base level tech needed for holgraphic displays.
If your display doesn't have a physical surface then you need to be able to pick up finger movements in the air.
The apple Hwatch in 2025 will combine iPhone and new holgraphic tech into a watch sized device. You can expand your fingers and watch YouTube at a 7-8" display resolution, but text messaging is done at smaller display sizes.
The only issue so far is that the battery requires access to your blood stream to generate the power required to run siad display. You wouldn't mind a mini hydro generator in one of your arteries would you?
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Wow! A handset with a convex face so your check doesn't press into the screen/keypad! Just like the Nexus S from 2010 (and pretty much every phone prior to touchscreens). I hope they are granted a patent for this truly revolutionary new idea.
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The new gesture technology would take into account the proximity of a finger to the screen
You mean like the Air Gestures feature Samsung had at least as far back as 2013? They died with the S6 because nobody used them, I'm sure Apple's "innovative" solution will be different.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
And it certainly hasn't taken them 5 years to do so, either.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I guess from the summary it is concave - and only in the length, not in the width.
Is it cuved at the back too? (convex)
If so when you lay it on a desk it would rock
BTW I gave up Apple products in 1988
My Galaxy S4 with its hover controls called and would like it's innovation back.
And while my none of the Galaxy S series curve inwards from top to bottom I'm sure LG has something to say about Apple's innovation.
Actually, the only people to claim that "Apple did it first" are the fuck-shits like you who infest slashdot.
"watch YouTube at a 7-8" display resolution"
Sure, but can it do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs?
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Like much of R&D there is a lot of working on ideas, that rarely will come out to a real product, if it does is a significantly different then the early uses of the idea.
Multi-touch display Microsoft was showing its early R&D of the Surface early use of a multi-touch display, At the time of the early 2000's it wasn't planed to be a tablet, but an actual Surface of a table or desk. Figuring that people would use them to play games in a restaurant, order meals off the table. Then Apple got to the market first with the multi-touch iPhone, which moved multi-touch displays from big desks to small screens.
Curved Screens and Touchless controls where we are thinking of using them on a Cell phone or a tablet may actually be on the Next generation Mac, or used in some better VR/AR technology. Perhaps instead of glasses, we have Contact lenses. Perhaps not, perhaps nothing will come up from the technology, and R&D because via the R&D process they found, they couldn't come up with a useful solution for the technology that worked well enough to be a product.
For an other example there was talk about a USB (non-C) plug that can be plugged in in either direction, where the connector bent to fit the standard USB Plug. Which never came out, I think because USB-C can be plugged in in either directions, and the bending of a connector probably couldn't be made reliable and robust enough for a product.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
When I get a telemarketer, I can just flip him the bird, and the phone will hang up on him.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
So basically, Samsung's Air View which they introduced in 2013.
(I don't think they're really copying, given that proximity is a basic universal concept and thus an obvious choice for an interface. But I figured I'd use the term in honor of Apple fans throwing "copying" around at everything and everyone who does anything remotely similar to what Apple does, even if they did it before Apple.)
Would that be the iTheramin??
That would be too cool....I could listen to the live versions of Whole Lotta Love, or No Quarter, and play the theremin parts along with Jimmy!!!
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Facial recognition would actually DO something valuable beyond unlocking your phone for after you're found dead or criminally arrested.
Now you too can join the misery of curved phone displays some of us Samsung fans have been offered!
I for one, will not purchase ANY phone with a curved display, period. When my Note 5 dies, I'll be sadly leaving Samsung, who I've been very happy with. If they can't have the common sense to offer the option, they lose the money.
Easier to break, harder to replace, virtually impossible to get one of those thin glass screen protectors.
Nope.
Anyone else here remember Douglas Adams' short story Young Zaphod Plays it Safe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The story, set in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe universe, includes reference to a radio that is tuned by waving your fingers it. And it drove Zaphod nuts because any accidental movement would tune it to another station. He would often just throw things at it.
Adams was ahead of his time.
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