http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/ Engadget Comments for Samsung skips the touchscreen, patents gesture-based phone interface http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Also, what kind of loser gangsters use public transport?
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/swerve
CRASH!!!

Seriously, this is pretty darn stupid. You're using more battery life than ever before AND taking longer to do things with the phone. Does it have toe recognition for people with one hand?]]>Apr 19th 2008 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/
Apple holds all the cards. Alas, incentive to actually innovate. ]]>Apr 19th 2008 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/
Seriously, the best interface is good old button and knob. Touchscreen is OK, but you have to look at it, and unless I have been living under a rock and touchscreens with "raisable" thingies that bump up to make seperators or buttons are now mainstream, I don't think it is good for applications such as making a simple call while driving.

Voice activation can be interfered like crazy.

Mind-powered: "Hey Jenna. Would you like to come over and have se... watch a movie".

Freudian slips roar like hell.

A good example I can make is in DDR:

When I play arcade or on my modded pads at home, I have the step panels lowered so that I can keep my eyes on the game, and know if my feet are actually hitting the panels or not.

Then, at school, they had 2 softpads, and of course they were not recessed. I failed so epically. I got a 80 combo, with only 4 or so greats, and 76 or so perfects, then BOO, BOO, BOO, And it ended up I moved off the pad sicne I was unable to know where I was at. So I tried to move forward, then backard, but before I knew it I failed.
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something like
http://www.sz-wholesale.com/uploadFiles/040402003352s.jpg
It holds he phone on a on their top of the central pannel
(since it is illegal to talk on the phone while holding it while driving in some countries)

now, i'd imagine (i've actuallly never used it ) you'd have to reach pretty far, if not look at the phone for quite a while to push the tiny buttons on your phone while it is rested on the hands-free-set.

hence, you could just use your hands to navigate throughout your phonoe and make calls.

As far as I can tell, it's not the greatest idea ...yet... we'll have to see what apps/feature samsung comes up with to make this feature easier/comfortable to use.

Of course you could argue that it could be more dangerous thinkinng about the hand gestures than actually pushing buttons.

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Drive. Or talk. Not both at the same time, not till we have ALL cars driving in auto mode and stop crashing. If you aren't sure you can avoid getting hit or hitting others while talking on the phone... don't try.]]>Apr 19th 2008 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/
http://pixblix.com]]>Apr 19th 2008 2:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/
This way you have to be using your hand under the phone... but still impractical...

maybe for home phones, with sensors in each room, you hold your hand up for a second and then make a gesture, the phone is a loudspeaker...]]>Apr 19th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/
I probably don't really understand this system, so don't flame me.]]>Apr 19th 2008 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/
and look at the PS3 laptop... $8300 already. lotsa rich people reading e-gadg!]]>Apr 19th 2008 3:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 4:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/008/03/touchless_control_interface_for_nokia_n95.htm


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Anyways, I like the idea of touch screens. I have a P2, and I had an iTouch before the P2, which was stolen O_<

I also like haptic feedback though. The idea of the device just lightly shaking to give you the sensation of pressing an actual button is nice. I wish my p2 had it, I think it would have made it an even more amazing product.

I'm not such a fan of gestures though. Everyone seems to be asking for them on touchscreen devices such as the iTouch and P2, but I find them very impractical.

There are a few gestures for the P2, but I don't ever use them. It's so much easier, faster, and more convenient for me to just press the "next" key instead of swiping my finger all around, and for me to press the timebar and move it to where I need instead of swiping like a madman to get to where I want to be. I think the only thing I've found useful is the easy zoom feature and the rotation =\

As for people claiming this would increase the number of accidents on the road, just yesterday I was stuck in a traffic jam for an hour on 696 due to a huge crash, then saw about 40-some cars just text messaging on those qwerty phones without paying attention to the road. It's not the phone's fault, it's the driver's for not taking responsibility and realizing that you shouldn't mess with a phone like that while on the road. Car kits aren't hard to install, and bluetooth is installed on every phone nowadays and also becoming insanely cheap for a simple headset. ]]>Apr 19th 2008 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/Apr 19th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/]]>Apr 19th 2008 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/they had gesture controlled devices, and in order to listen to the radio you had to sit perfectly still or it would change the volume or channel.]]>Apr 19th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/]]>Apr 19th 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee165/Psychopusher/samsung_gestures.jpg
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