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On 2012-03-13 12:49:52, admad wrote:
On 2012-03-13 10:57:10, motvikt wrote:
Im sorry but what is the purpose of the "floating touch"? Why would anyone use that?
From The Verge
A new feature Sony is introducing with the Xperia Sola is called "floating touch." It's specific to the web browser, where the phone will react to you hovering your finger above the screen as it would to a mouse cursor. You can highlight links by lingering above them, though you'll still need to tap to select them. In other words, Sony's straying dangerously close to gimmick territory.
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[ This Message was edited by: motvikt on 2012-03-13 10:00 ]
Actually it's real usage is on flash/HTML5 content, which depends HIGHLY on mouse floating over content. This has very big potential. At last something is happening with technology, not only core race. Nokia presented camera better than practically all compact cameras, now Sony goes with new touchscreen technology, that can make a touchscreen phone much more usable. I like the way things go now.
[ This Message was edited by: admad on 2012-03-13 11:51 ]
Very good point, did not think about it. But will it work that way?
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Posted: 2012-03-13 13:09:55
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Very good point, did not think about it. But will it work that way?
I believe that was the point of this technology
And it will work since they said it behaves just like the mouse.
[ This Message was edited by: admad on 2012-03-13 12:59 ]
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Posted: 2012-03-13 13:59:37
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As a web developer myself, this 'floating mouse' thing is a really good idea. It's the one thing that's been missing from mobile browsers although there are ways to get a similar effects from existing screens, eg. touching the screen where you want to see the mouse over effect for just a fraction longer than you would if you wanted to click then dragging as though moving around the screen, I've found shows mouse overs well but doesn't do everything you'd want your mouse to do. For that I use USB-otg and a real mouse!
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Posted: 2012-03-13 23:22:16
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the new sony line up is interesting....altho i have noticed that so far there isn't a single flagship phone which incorporates all the best features
Xperia S:
+Exmor camera
+Front Camera
+8GB+ Memory
+HDMI Port
+Transparent Strip
-No microSD
-No White Magic
-No Floating Touch
-No Aluminium Unibody
Xperia P:
+Exmor camera
+Front Camera
+8GB+ Memory
+HDMI Port
+Transparent Strip
+White Magic
+Aluminium Unibody
-No microSD
-No Floating Touch
Xperia U:
+Front Camera
+Color Changing Transparent Strip
-Non Exmor camera
-No microSD
-No HDMI Port
-No White Magic
-No Floating Touch
-No Aluminium Unibody
-No 8GB+ Memory
Xperia sola:
+microSD
+Floating Touch
+8GB+ Memory
-No Transparent Strip
-Non Exmor camera
-No Front Camera
-No HDMI Port
-No White Magic
-No Aluminium Unibody
Having different features on different phones makes it difficult to choose which one to go for when you want the best one! OK so Xperia U doesnt really have that many unique features although the colour changing strip seems to be a good idea...the rest of them all have unique features which are really good, but I think you need at least one top end phone with all of them
I really hope that some of the future flagships (Hayabus, Mint) incorporate all the best features. And preferably one has a QWERTY keyboard!
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Posted: 2012-03-14 00:09:30
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The sola could just be a test bed. If it proves popular and effective the magic touch screen tech might go range-wide.
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Posted: 2012-03-14 00:33:06
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Xperia S also has an HD screen with the other phones don't
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Posted: 2012-03-14 00:47:24
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I think most phones have gimmicky like features. It's only when the 'gimmick' proves to be of a real advantage that it ceases to be gimmicky.
The new floating-touch technology has the potential to develop into something fantastic further down the line. Floating multi-touch anyone?
The possibility that one day in the near future it might be possible to navigate and manipulate on-screen information using our fingertips but without actually touching the screen with our greasy fingers can only be a good thing.
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Posted: 2012-03-14 01:49:59
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I wonder if Sony is planning to go head to head with the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the iPhone 5 with the Hayabusa and Mint. From what I understand about the launch dates they seem pretty close together with the SGS3 and Hayabusa releasing within a month of one another, and the Mint and iPhone 5 releasing around the same time. Then again the Hayabusa and Mint are releasing only 2 months apart so at least one of them should be a more unconventional design or run another OS like Windows 8.
If Sony is planning to merge all the unique features of the announced phones into one flagship phone I would get that in a heartbeat. The Xperia S is great, but as other have said it just feels that with the current lineup no matter which phone you get you'll be left wanting features from one of the others. I'm hoping Hayabusa will be it, as it'll be a successor to the Arc in terms of design.
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Posted: 2012-03-14 01:50:12
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Well in the interview that was posted here recently it was implied that six months from now there would be further flagships with underlying hardware changes. The processors / number of cores and the camera spring to mind straight away. A 16MP quad-core Xperia S upgrade with all the recent features added doesn't sound implausible to me.
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Posted: 2012-03-14 01:55:46
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On 2012-03-14 00:09:30, kewsvnet wrote:
the new sony line up is interesting....altho i have noticed that so far there isn't a single flagship phone which incorporates all the best features
Sounds like the 2011 line for the most part; the core models were, for the most part, small, medium, and large variants of the same general set of specifications, and then there were auxiliary modes with something additional to the basic feature set. In this case thus far, the core models seem to be the NXT ones, with the Ion and Sola being the auxiliary ones.
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Posted: 2012-03-14 01:56:21
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