15th March 2018, 7:14 AM
Screen protectors, and quality of the screen itself, also play a big factor. It would be very hard for me to sacrifice multi-touch gestures at this point. I will say there's room for improvement though. My gloves have little patches in the finger tips that allow them to work with touch screens, but notably not ALL touch screens work with them, for example. Being able to detect smaller touches would be nice. A fundamental requirement of capacitive touch is that you complete a circuit, so that's been the trouble there. I guess I would say capacitive is more accurate in some ways (multitouch), less accurate in this way in particular. The main feature of any new touch tech would be tactile feedback. Not vibrating the phone, I mean letting me "feel" the objects on the display. That's going to take a lot of work in meta materials, but if they ever reach that point, maybe we really could get rid of buttons altogether.
Remember how the PS3 and later revisions of the XBox 360, as well as the XBox One's first revision, had capacitive buttons? I hated those. I kept accidentally turning the things on and off just by brushing my arm against it when I was trying to reach something else.
Remember how the PS3 and later revisions of the XBox 360, as well as the XBox One's first revision, had capacitive buttons? I hated those. I kept accidentally turning the things on and off just by brushing my arm against it when I was trying to reach something else.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)