Surfaces that move
posted Apr 20th 2007, 22:58 under feedback, keys, phones, tactile
How to get tactile feedback through a continuous surface? Is it possible to get good and rich tactile cues without using discrete and physically isolated buttons? To my surprise it seems like it. More and more handset manufacturers are indeed using 'skinned' buttons and keys on their devices, where an outer layer wraps/embeds/hides the physical keys.
This is a quick survey of production phones that uses this idea.
Sony-Ericsson model xxx
Nokia model xxx
Nokia model xxx, side buttons
Sony-Ericsson model xxx, side buttons
Sony-Ericsson model xxx
Samsung model xxx
??? company model xxx
??? company model xxx
Nokia model xxxx
Nokia model xxxx, side view
Nokia model xxxx, side view