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Offline Jay

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Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« on: 08 June 2012, 14:01 »
For those that want your buttons like you're used to on your old phones, there is a new type of touch screen coming  :cool: 
 
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/tactus-touchscreen-shows-off-bizarre-pop-up-physical-buttons-50008177/

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Re: Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« Reply #1 on: 09 June 2012, 13:15 »
that is awesome

i want........

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Re: Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« Reply #2 on: 09 June 2012, 13:43 »
thats the nuts!  :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

good find jay...

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Re: Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« Reply #3 on: 09 June 2012, 13:45 »
love the last comment on there also

"That is just too cool - lets hope Apple don't try to shut them down by making false claims they invented it first."  :grin:

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Re: Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« Reply #4 on: 09 June 2012, 17:28 »
or buy them out :grin:
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Re: Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« Reply #6 on: 09 June 2012, 22:04 »
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/04/apple-patent-tactile-touchscreens/

Not quite the same and tactus have been working on their project longer. A patent Apple have and will never use, "just because" they can.
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Offline R32UK

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Re: Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« Reply #7 on: 10 June 2012, 12:30 »
you just know that if apple introduce this feature on the iphone, the sheep will be saying how they have always prefered buttons  :grin:

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Re: Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« Reply #8 on: 10 June 2012, 18:29 »
I'd love an iphone with this! In my android/Windows Mobile days, I always went for whatever had a physical qwerty keyboard. It's just much nicer and faster.

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Re: Pop-up buttons, on a touch screen
« Reply #9 on: 10 June 2012, 18:32 »
good for accessibility

not so good for me, not a fan really

wonder if the stretchy button material will 'sag' with use... the amount of times the average user would use that button keyboard would be hundreds of times a day