• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

    • flames5123@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      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.

    • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 hours ago

      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

      • Darorad@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        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