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Samsung S4 features leak in videos

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I wanted to wait with exchanging Lumia 920, but after seeing the leaks, I think that I will be more than happy with Note II.
 
CrankyJay said:
How does the hover work?
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Same as on the Note II with the stylus, if you hover your finger over certain things (i.e, a photo in the gallery, or a text message in a list) you get a larger preview of that photo or text without it fully opening up. Imagine Windows 7 when you scroll over a window at the bottom, and it gives you an enlarged preview of it.
 
nib95 said:
Same as on the Note II with the stylus, if you hover your finger over certain things (i.e, a photo in the gallery, or a text message in a list) you get a larger preview of that photo or text without it fully opening up. Imagine Windows 7 when you scroll over a window at the bottom, and it gives you an enlarged preview of it.
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Doh, I meant what is the technology that makes this possible?

Just wondering if this is just a novelty idea or if it can be useful in certain applications.
 
Cool stuff, that's the thing I like about Samsung phones, they add some cool features you mightn't have thought about before, but are cool to have..
 
Doesn't this floating touch stuff pretty much solve one of the biggest interface problems previously inherent to touch screens, versus the mouse? (Lack of cursor hover?)

Technologically, I imagine it is simply an extension of the usual touch digitizer. If we assume there was always some distance between the touch sensitive elements, and the actual touch surface (constituted by the thickness of the front glass), I guess you could just increase the sensitivity of the digitizer, to sense a finger/whatever from further away.
 
The floating touch thing looked very cool. Can't wait to try that one out of read hands on.

The look away thing seems like a feature that no one would ever want to use.
 
What the heck is the point of float touch? Why can't I just touch and hold? It's not like float touch gets my finger out of the way or anything.
 
What if you hold your phone horizontally watching a video with your hands covering the camera, will it keep the video paused even while you look? Also I saw that when they demod the pause demo the cameraman walked away as if it couldnt handle multiple people watching
 
Metalmurphy said:
Finally, I always wondered why they never did this.

No more fingerprints!
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Well, if you want something else than preview screens I'd say you are gonna have fingerprints.

loblaw said:
What the heck is the point of float touch? Why can't I just touch and hold? It's not like float touch gets my finger out of the way or anything.
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It might be faster if implemented well, and maybe holding touch can give different options.
 
CrankyJay said:
Doh, I meant what is the technology that makes this possible?

Just wondering if this is just a novelty idea or if it can be useful in certain applications.
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If it's the Same as Sony's it's another type of capacitance using a stronger signal that can only determine a single point, alongside the normal surface level multi touch one, The Sony one lets you use the phone with gloves on too.
http://developer.sonymobile.com/knowledge-base/technologies/floating-touch/
loblaw said:
What the heck is the point of float touch? Why can't I just touch and hold? It's not like float touch gets my finger out of the way or anything.
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Mouseover events. It could be good if it's actually used well.
 
These all seem like terrible features.

Was that rumoured scrolling one real? That actually seemed like it might be neat if it worked.
 
Maninthemirror said:
Yes that is quite useful


Also did anyone notice in the floating touch video that he was scrolling with his eyes in the menu before showing off floating touch?
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No I didn't notice that, at what part of the video? I don't think scrolling is a feature for the eyetracking function, its just pausing videos.
 
TurkishEmperor said:
No I didn't notice that, at what part of the video? I don't think scrolling is a feature for the eyetracking function, its just pausing videos.
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One of the leaked features for the S4 is eye scrolling. So it makes sense. Supposedly when browsing web pages etc, you can turn on a feature that recognises when you're nearing the end of a page and scrolls for you.
 
Mindwipe said:
These all seem like terrible features.

Was that rumoured scrolling one real? That actually seemed like it might be neat if it worked.
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It was clarified that you have to move your head. Saying eyes was completely misleading. Same as pausing videos. It's not eye tracking
 
giga said:
The hand waving feature might be the most useless thing to come out of tech since BB10.
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Might be good for gaming, hate how "fat fingers" interferes with the game view on some titles. There are activities that could benefit from floating touch, i just hope it actually does a great job tracking off-surface movement.
 
Phone seemed very laggy (as in, responding a split second after being touched. Also, the lock screen taking forever to turn on).

Hope this is early.
 
monchi-kun said:
Might be good for gaming, hate how "fat fingers" interferes with the game view on some titles. There are activities that could benefit from floating touch, i just hope it actually does a great job tracking off-surface movement.
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People complain about crappy touch controls for gaming all the time...

Imagine if the next-gen of iOS/Android gaming was not touching the screen at all.
 
Between the GSIII, Note II, and HTC One - which one has the better camera? How is the reception of the Note II? Seems like people are pretty positive towards it.
 
Macmanus said:
Between the GSIII, Note II, and HTC One - which one has the better camera? How is the reception of the Note II? Seems like people are pretty positive towards it.
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Based on the HTC One reviews so far, I'm gonna say it has a better camera than the Note2 (and possibly the GS3 as well).
 
These are joke features, right? They are really scraping the bottom of the damn barrel.

This is even sillier than the "bump phones to transfer a picture" nonsense.
 
Hoo-doo said:
These are joke features, right? They are really scraping the bottom of the damn barrel.

This is even sillier than the "bump phones to transfer a picture" nonsense.
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Oh come on. A lot of GS3 owners were proud of such a feature in the commercials. You have to tap the screen an exorbitant amount of times (2) to do the same on the iPhone!
 
VoxPop said:
Oh come on. A lot of GS3 owners were proud of such a feature in the commercials. You have to tap the screen an exorbitant amount of times (2) to do the same on the iPhone!
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The only good thing about those commercials was the smoking hot wife...
 
Hoo-doo said:
These are joke features, right? They are really scraping the bottom of the damn barrel.

This is even sillier than the "bump phones to transfer a picture" nonsense.
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touching phones to transfer anything is a fantastic feature that I use quite a bit. No need to be bitter because your chosen device can't do it These features are near worthless.
 
Has anyone actually used the Phone Mind Meld in real life? I think if I saw that in the wild I would just laugh.
 
Hoo-doo said:
These are joke features, right? They are really scraping the bottom of the damn barrel.

This is even sillier than the "bump phones to transfer a picture" nonsense.
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WiFi Direct is the greatest thing in popular phones.

I havent use the S-transfer or NFC (For anything aside payments) thing once.

I wish phones like this had more actually useful features. I'd kill for the IR sensor and transmitter to make a comeback.
 
Macmanus said:
Has anyone actually used the Phone Mind Meld in real life? I think if I saw that in the wild I would just laugh.
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I used the Android Beam feature a few days ago to send some pictures to my wife's phone that I took while we were at lunch. She wanted to share them to Facebook, and it was easier to do that than to email them to her and have her mess with downloading them out of the email, then sharing, etc.
 
None of these are really exciting new features. We're going to have to wait till bendable phone tech matures before we get another "wow" moment... might be the S5, who knows. After that the next wow could be holographic displays of some kind ~10 years from now.
 
Front camera making people nervous, just buy those tinfoil hats and hide under a rock.

The S4 features are ok, nothing ground-breaking. Will be interesting to see if it can repeat/surpass the GS3 success.
 
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