Samsung dreaming of YP-P3 with haptic support?

Not even a month after we asked you fine readers what you'd love to change about the YP-P2, in comes early word that a tweaked successor could be on the way. Granted, most everything here is lost in translation, but we're gathering that Samsung could be readying a touchscreen YP-P3 that would look awfully similar to the SCH-W420 mobile. Good thing, too, as that particular unit has haptic support (force feedback from touch panels, in a nutshell) already loaded in. So convenient, wouldn't you agree? Keep a loose eye out for this one to surface late this year.

[Via PMPToday]

[EMForce @ May 14th 2008 4:33PM]

web browser please?

[Blaine Oliver @ May 14th 2008 4:44PM]

I am sorry if i am noob, but actually saying what haptic is does help a lot, now i am not sitting here blankly saying wha??

[gjp303 @ May 14th 2008 5:11PM]

And if you ever are left confused, in Firefox or IE7, look to the right of your address bar, see that thing with Google written on it? Input your confusion there. It will help you.

[Blaine Oliver @ May 14th 2008 5:28PM]

Yeh, i dont need to know what it is anymore, I did RTFA so know now...

[Steffen Jobbs @ May 14th 2008 11:11PM]

Haptic displays are good on a cellphone if you put them in your front pocket. You get these weird little tingly vibrations around your crotch area. It helps if you're a bit sweaty because it sort of heightens the vibrations due to increasing the conductivity of the display.

Just wait another year and the next model iPhone will have a much more advanced haptic feedback than any other handset. Apple's rumored to have an iPhone in the works that the feedback is so good it feels just like typing on a full-sized keyboard and you can actually feel which key you're pressing. Sort of like braille, but with the shape of the letter sent straight to your brain.

[Stephen Lang @ May 14th 2008 4:57PM]

In a nutshell, force feedback from touch panels (FTA).

I think normally this is done with a very tiny electrical charge, that basically tells you the screen has registered your input.

I think it's a good idea, but having used an iPod Touch for awhile I'm not sure how much it would improve the user experience vs. the added cost (which however may not be much.)

It might actually help the soft keyboard though. If you press on a key, and before you lift your finger you can feel that another key has been registered, maybe you can slide your finger over a bit and correct it. OTOH, not sure how much different that is than just looking at the screen. In most cases I rely on the auto-correction feature anyway, which seems fastest overall since I don't slow down to make sure all characters are accurate.

[Drew @ May 14th 2008 6:07PM]

Put a small speaker at the top, a mic at the bottom, slap in WIFI, and we can use this Turd as a phone via BT... and put the 4GB model on sale for $129 like you did last time...

[Yuri @ May 14th 2008 6:19PM]

If it's any consolation, the P2 does have a mic at the bottom.

I use it all the time to talk on it.

Works pretty good too =D

If this thing had haptic, I'd jump at it without a second thought. I love my P2, but 4GB does NOTHING for me. I was considering getting a 16GB P2 before leaving next year, but I'll wait for this to come out perhaps.

[Stephen Lang @ May 14th 2008 6:40PM]

Maybe if they really ratcheted up the haptic feedback, we could have a cool 'Madame Dominatrix Mavis Beacon Teaches Soft Keyboard Typing' game on the iTunes store...

[Ryan @ May 14th 2008 7:31PM]

I've said it before... vibrating isn't haptic feedback, it eats batteries and it's useless.

Haptic on phones usually means it vibrates when you hit something, i'm not sure about this particular phone but i know i haven't heard about any USEFUL haptic feedback touchscreen technology, and i doubt that would go under my radar.

Unless i can dial a phone number correctly with the on-screen numpad, without looking at it, the haptic interface is broken and useless. Haptic is a buzz-word for "hey whoa, the same motor that vibrates the phone in silent ring mode vibrates when i push a button on the screen! wow!" that's not tech, that's crap.

[Ryan @ May 14th 2008 7:37PM]

aww dammit, it's not even a phone........

hey, noob, read the article, THEN post...

[Drew @ May 14th 2008 8:17PM]

It is a Phone via BT, you can dial numbers and listen through the headset, but the mic is not positioned properly for phone use... more for voice recording...

[nihons @ May 14th 2008 8:04PM]

- [Samsung announced(2008/5/13)]
They decided. Because their latest Touch-Screen Phone 'Haptic SCH-W420 (in Korea)' is quite popular(100,000 units a month).

[edmund @ May 14th 2008 8:30PM]

sigh...my birthday is coming up and i was gonna get a p2...

now i dont know if i should wait ...or not..

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