New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button
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#2Any new UI innovations that isn't already done in Android?
Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button
#3Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is off because it might turn on at any moment. With tap to wake you have to worry about just bumping it and with facial expressions you'd literally need to be concerned about just looking at it funny.
Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button
#4Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is off because it might turn on at any moment. With tap to wake you have to worry about just bumping it and with facial expressions you'd literally need to be concerned about just looking at it funny.
What? Ever used an Android device? Tap to wake is super useful and makes perfect sense if no physical home button.
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#5As a developer I'm more or less required to keep up with new hardware developments but I'm still fine with my 6S with 3D touch. The rest of the new hardware features work fine within a simulator. I'd rather buy an iPad Pro than a new phone this year.
But I didn't like the design of the iPhone 6 compared to the 4 and 5. It's good to see it change finally. The 4 and 5 looked like a piece of futuristic technology, like the Samsung Edge designs nowadays. From what I've seen the iPhone 8 will outdo Samsung for the first time in years in that department.
Re: New iPhone leaks show tap to wake, attention detection, and virtual home button
#6Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is off because it might turn on at any moment. With tap to wake you have to worry about just bumping it and with facial expressions you'd literally need to be concerned about just looking at it funny.
Tap to wake usually either requires more pressure than an accidental bump or requires a quick double tap.
That is how it has been implemented in the Android phones I've used so far.
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#7Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is off because it might turn on at any moment. With tap to wake you have to worry about just bumping it and with facial expressions you'd literally need to be concerned about just looking at it funny.
Not really - there's a reason why the Android phones that have tap to wake require two taps in quick succession, or similar. It's very difficult to accidentally trigger it.
The facial recognition stuff seems odd to me, in the sense that I can't really figure out what it would be used for (aside from a silly smile detector in the camera app), but hopefully it'll be locked behind permission prompts (or barely accessible at all) in third party apps.
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#8Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is off because it might turn on at any moment. With tap to wake you have to worry about just bumping it and with facial expressions you'd literally need to be concerned about just looking at it funny.
What? Ever used an Android device? Tap to wake is super useful and makes perfect sense if no physical home button.
The only thing that annoys me is that there is no reverse tap-to-wake.
1. Double-tap on the screen. Lockscreen appears.
2. Check the clock.
3. Fumble annoyedly until finding the power button to turn the screen off.
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#9Handling a smart phone is already stressful enough. You can't touch the entire front of phone in fear of accidentally tapping something, even if the screen is off because it might turn on at any moment. With tap to wake you have to worry about just bumping it and with facial expressions you'd literally need to be concerned about just looking at it funny.
Somehow, I think Apple probably thought about this before making a change to their flagship phone.
They have many options, including making the "tap" a force touch. So requiring a certain amount of pressure before actually turning on. Or requiring a double tap. Or being more of a "tap to unlock" using raise to wake.
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What? Ever used an Android device? Tap to wake is super useful and makes perfect sense if no physical home button.
The only thing that annoys me is that there is no reverse tap-to-wake. 1. Double-tap on the screen. Lockscreen appears. 2. Check the clock. 3. Fumble annoyedly until finding the power button to turn the screen off.
Actually thinking about it...if Apple did a force touch to wake it could be pretty awesome. So a light press would turn on the screen on low brightness, slowly building up as you increase pressure. Let go and it turns off, commit to the press and you are in.