Are smartphones basically dead? Every single one of 'em looks exactly the same. At least three years ago the Galaxy S2 and iPhone 4S had new features.
Other companies will mimick 3D Touch.
Why would the stagnation of smartphone hardware design mean that smartphones are dead, OP?
You sound like a kid who's growing impatient that his new toys aren't novel anymore.
>>51431198
3D Touch is amazing for one use. Sliding between apps with a swipe from the edge of the screen. Without applying pressure it just goes back in whichever app you were using. But with slight pressure it goes to the last used app or the switcher. Makes me love the 6S.
>>51431216
yeah and as usual with android they wont agree on one standard and it will be an absolute mess. It wont happen on android for a few years.
Smartphones? Don't you mean smartphone design?
Yes, they all look like cheap iphone knockoffs, who cares
Apple will innovate again with iPhone 7
>>51431242
Samsung already patented their version of 3d touch. Prolly gonna be shit and poorly applied but its most likely going to implemented in the next gen phones
>>51431242
Next year on Samsung.
Never on everyone else because Google are cunts.
If they had just licensed Android under GLP it would mean that any of Samsung's changes would have to be made public, right?
If they could just upstream Samsung's features Android would have multi window and other features standard right now instead of only available through TouchJizz.
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Virtual screens that float in front of you when?
>>51431289
Fingerprint smudges that float in front of you to be honest
>>51431242
its not really necessary, its just kinda a neat extra feature...at least at the moment.
Its kinda like push button start on cars.....been around for years, really only in the last couple has it started be used everywhere. Pressure sensitive touch, is a good idea, but having it/not having it doesnt matter much...for right now.
>>51431299
kek
>>51431306
Push button start on cars is hilarious.
One of my boss's brothers left his Hybrid Lexus at the airport, dropped the keys, for us to pick up, went and got the keys got to the car and it was unlocked and "Ready".
Literally anyone could have hopped in it and driven off.
>>51431281
yeah and htc, sony and lg will all have their own systems and use them all differently and of course hardly any apps are going to be built to support them all.
>>51431338
Protip: those cars typically won't start unless the keys (which you had on you) are detected in proximity. Maybe it's imprecise enough that someone could jump in while you're standing a few feet away (although in my experience those keys only work if the key is *inside* the car - it's not enough merely to be nearby), you would have to be a buffoon to be within range of the car and for someone to figure they can hop in and drive off.
Besides the fact that you'd be too close for someone to manage a run at your car, they'd be taking a guess as to whether this is one of those models of cars that even work that way. And what if it's not? They've just jumped in a car that won't go anywhere, with the owner standing like 5 feet away (at most)?
>>51431338
Don't they unlock in proximity to the key?
Iirc the car won't start up unless it detects the key inside either.
>>51431367
>>51431375
They would, not when the car is "Ready" though.
With Hybrids when you start them they go into "Ready" mode instead of starting the engine, assuming the engine doesn't need to start because of low battery.
So the car was literally started. They don't give a shit where the keys are after they're started.
Also, Hybrids tend to turn on the engine every once in a while when sitting in "Ready" mode because the battery drains a bit and the air con was on when I got in the car.
>>51431230
You realize everyone ingnored your troll comment? Fuck off back to reddit
>>51431429
everyone except you, which kinda makes you the only retard in this thread.
>>51431429
What are you talking about you creep? It took a three click process I did hundreds of times a day and made it a single swipe
>>51431497
>you play with your phone hundreds of times a day
Get a fucking job, or life.
>>51431289
when you get augmented to have a heads up display in your eyes
>yfw it has an always on internet connection and it becomes government mandated
>>51431198
If the iPhone 7 will have autostereoscopic 3D screens with face-tracking technology similar to the New 3DS, than Apple wins again.
Yes, LG and Sharp did it before but failed because "it's not Apple".
>>51431198
apple killed design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3053406/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name
