That’s such a bad interface on the side. Nothing is tactile. Touch something on the left side without looking, by feel alone, and you might get loudness, might get lights.
Surprise disco.
they could add haptic feedback, like they did on the samsung s8, where the home button felt more physical, because u hav to press with pressure and it vibrate when u do. it feels surprisingly comfy and reasonably real. but yes, normal buttons WAY better. <3
It took me longer than it should have to realize the home button on my iPhone 7 wasn’t a real button.
I guess it would be an improvement, but it wouldn’t really solve the problem of knowing what you’re pressing.
I guess maybe you could have some light vibration with touch and trigger it with a harder press, but it really feels like we’re putting way more effort into just making worse buttons. I don’t see the tradeoffs being worth it without a lot of investment from both the phone maker and app makers
Exactly. This is also why having controls in your car be strictly touch screen is dangerous.
iPhone has added the new camera action button with the 16. With a light touch (while active) it has a menu pop up and with a harder press, it has haptic feedback. As you put your finger over where the buttons are, there could be a little pop up on the side, and then a press would be haptic. They’ve already started experimenting with having the black bar on the side of the screen indent slightly when any side button is pressed.
Reverse the numbers and you get 1220. Feel old yet?
Look again. Reverse the numbers and you get 2102. Feel old yet? Look again.
The numbers are now diamonds!
Can’t believe it’s been 805 years without Adelaide II of Büren 😞
Ugh, too thick. And the bars at the top and bottom? Gag me with a spoon.
NO! ThIs wIlL bEe tHE IPhoNe 5:
All I can see in my mind is dropping that thing, over and over again.
I’m not worried about dropping it, but I can see myself throwing it out after I unintentionally activate one of the side buttons for the 45,000th time.
Also a fair point, yes!
That’s a lot of times, you must be very patient
I’m gonna be honest the design looks cool. forget the anti-consumer stuff about apple for a sec, like. it LOOKS cool. impractical? sure. but like, you’d definitely get the attention of everyone on the playground with that thing.
There actually are a couple phones out with this already, though they’re mostly Chinese builds. E.g., this one has a screen that wraps around the back: https://youtu.be/PTpoj4f25dk?t=119
That’s cool as fuck but I’m a clumsy bitch and would destroy the screen within the first day of getting my hands on it sadly. 😭
I like that it has bezels, a physical home button, and an apparently 16:9 display
Who needs user-replaceable batteries, phones that are meant to be taken apart and repaired (aka… don’t glue the damn things together), or a device that doesn’t actively resist you changing your OS, when you have wrap around display?
The future is now!
And in 2013 we’ll have this:
There was a phone with a projector built in.
IIRC it was shit
ngl, I would love to own a phone with a built in projector
This idea is actually something I wish were true. The main challenge would be preventing accidental touches while still registering intentional touches. However, if that issue gets (mostly) solved, this idea could be very cool.
Imagine having contextual buttons for everything instead of the usual static volume/power buttons. e. g. You open your Lemmy client of choice, and there are side buttons for making posts, making comments, etc. We can take this even further: imagine you used the button to compose a comment, and now the contextual buttons change again to allow you to format your comment (like a WYSIWYG editor).
Also, realistically, if this were to be built, the edges would be curved, instead of the blocky slab shown.
