With regards to the tactility of a cellphone's keypad, i truly believe that it is liked simply because that's what people are used to. I'm sure after a few years of using a touchscreen pad, even the staunchest supporter of button keypads will wonder how they ever got by having to press buttons all the time.
As with any proof of concept, I doubt we'll ever see this phone on the market. To be honest, I'd prefer if Synaptics focused on implementing their proprietary technologies into useful applications that would benefit immediately rather than nifty toys whos use would have to catch up to the technology.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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With regards to the tactility of a cellphone's keypad, i truly believe that it is liked simply because that's what people are used to. I'm sure after a few years of using a touchscreen pad, even the staunchest supporter of button keypads will wonder how they ever got by having to press buttons all the time.
As with any proof of concept, I doubt we'll ever see this phone on the market. To be honest, I'd prefer if Synaptics focused on implementing their proprietary technologies into useful applications that would benefit immediately rather than nifty toys whos use would have to catch up to the technology.