The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped
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The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped
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#2what is a capacitive button?
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#3what is a capacitive button?
A button that works on the same principle as the trackpad on your laptop.
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#4what is a capacitive button?
A button you don't push so much as touch because it's got a capacitive touch sensor underneath. It means that random touches suddenly become meaningful.
Playing with a friend's Android (probably the Omnia 7 mentioned in the linked article) I'm finding the capacitive buttons on the bottom (the standard Android four buttons) really annoying because once they're active, they're all active and you can brush one meaning to touch the other.
EDIT for punctuation.
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#5The author mentions his experience with capacitive buttons that are too sensitive. I have the opposite problem on my phone—the buttons aren't sensitive enough.
I think that capacitive buttons are just too difficult to tune because the conditions they are used in vary so much. My phone doesn't even register touches at all if my hands are slightly sweaty.
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#6tldr: Did they never play a game in landscape mode, and accidentally back out of the whole game by merely holding the device wrong?
I really don't get the anti-(physical-)button trend.
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#7isn't the entire screen of a smart phone a capacitive button? It's pretty hard to accidentally dial my ex or launch the "fart noise" app in a meeting on it so why not link the "capacitive" buttons to the same software unlock as the device already has. (referring to my Android / HTC desire)
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#8I remember when I bought an LG Chocolate when it first came on the scene about 5 years ago. It had capacitive touch buttons that were in such a bad place that if I was talking, and the button brushed against my ear it would hangup the call. It was awful and I vowed never again. Its the very reason I never got an iphone, opting for blackberry instead.
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#9I remember when I bought an LG Chocolate when it first came on the scene about 5 years ago. It had capacitive touch buttons that were in such a bad place that if I was talking, and the button brushed against my ear it would hangup the call. It was awful and I vowed never again. Its the very reason I never got an iphone, opting for blackberry instead.
Wait, I don't understand this argument. iPhones are one of the few phones that don't have this issue.
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#10isn't the entire screen of a smart phone a capacitive button? It's pretty hard to accidentally dial my ex or launch the "fart noise" app in a meeting on it so why not link the "capacitive" buttons to the same software unlock as the device already has. (referring to my Android / HTC desire)
In Honeycomb (and presumably 4.0), the capacitive buttons have been replaced with on screen elements, so sort-of yes.
The difference, in my opinion, is that there is on-screen feedback when you press a screen button, vs a capacitive button which is just a backlit touch element. I agree with your solution to link their active state to the software unlock, but in practice it seems to not be how devices have been implemented.