All of you are missing the major benefit of eye scrolling: people with disabilities will have a much easier time reading or surfing the web.
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Galaxy S IV will have eye scrolling
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I don't think they're missing the point. I think they're ignoring it. We're talking about a Samsung phone being more innovative in features since the S2 and improving at much faster rate than the iPhone, in an Apple forum.
....Since when did Samsung try to appeal to the elderly age group? If I remember correctly, they bashed them in a commercial portraying them as foolish for waiting in line for an iPhone...
If anything Samsung should consider fixing their TouchWiz and making the phones fit in the small feeble hands of the elderly.
The elderly prefer the big screens of Samsung phones. iPhone screens are illegible for many older people because they are too small.
Android phones are great with implementing new features, and the latest hardware, but I probably won't switch back to an Android phone unless they release a phone that lets me plug in my music instruments, doesn't need or use a virus scanner, has a stable OS that doesn't act funky, and gets all the great apps that iOS does.
Eye scrolling does seem badass, and kudos to Samsung if they pull it off right.
Eye scrolling does seem badass, and kudos to Samsung if they pull it off right.
Wow, really? It never ceases to amaze me when someone hates a brand to the point they will bash it no matter what. Just come out and say YOU hate Samsung and don't care for any of their products regardless of how good they may be. It's ok to hate a brand just for the heck of it, as long as you just admit it. Don't you find it stressful to make up reasons to hate something. It's not worth the stress bro.
Just imagine how great this feature would be if Apple had come up with it first.
exactly. You'd see about 10 different commercials and everyone praising eye scrolling on an iphone, you already see how they market the do not disturb and noise cancelling mics like they're some breakthrough features lol.
Unless their disability is blindness
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I have a vision of a bunch of teenagers looking at Internet porn on their smartphones and thinking their having a stroke (of the medical variety - not the mastubatory kind - but now I clarify that, they are teenagers) as the screen jumps all over the place ...
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But in seriousness sounds like another feature like the tap and then tilt to zoom in on photos etc, that Samsung has had - which most folks never bother using simply because pinch to zoom is much more practical....
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Two people (assuming they weren't bigamists or Mormons) doesn't constitute a credible case study I'm afraid.
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apple its not a tech company that only inovate features that comes to wow everybody, and not even got a point the benefit of the new features in the use of productivity in our real day life. they can do much more if they want to, its company its full of the world best engineers.but they didnt, why? because they simply havent find any other to inovate their iphone line to be more easy to use, yet its sophisticated result in productivity, elegant, intuitive in the same time and the iphone 5 its allready there.
Unless their disability is blindness
Sammy's already got that covered with the Talkback feature.
This has been said to death already in this thread and I'm not sure it's true. Apple seems to get bashed lately for any new features they bring out.
Anyway back on topic. Sounds interesting. Would love to see it working in action.
In the middle of scrolling webpage with my eyes, someone talking with me and have to look at.then im back to my phone and allready scrolled down because of my eyes movement before..how annoying
No one really needed cover flow. And one can argue it's more efficient to locate the album from within more or via a playlist.
Face it Apple has lost it's mojo as far as phones are concerned. What was once a slick UI envied by all is now yesterday UI and is growing more stale by the month.
I'm afraid I agree.
Unless a feature works 100% of the time, it just gets irritating and I go back to the old way.
Smart Stay often doesn't work (and the flashing icon gets annoying), Siri regularly didn't work, so that got switched off. Voice Control on the 3GS was the same. Smart Rotation didn't work. Auto screen brightness is hit and miss.
But scrolling with my finger works every time. So I'll probably just stick to that.
I really hope this is a silly rumour and not a real feature.
You make it sound like your already using the phone with this feature! Im sure Samsung thought of various scenarios and made allowances for them. Lets just wait for it be demoed before casting FUD.
I can tell you Smart Stay works 100% of the time under normal use condition. Obviously it can't work 100% under all conditions because it is not designed for that. Do you throw away your phone because it drops signal once in a while?
I quite like the idea, good that a company has the balls to release it first. If it doesnt' work to my satisfaction, I will switch it off and go back to the way everyone else scrolls on their phones from a different manufacturer.
Nice feature to have an option of using, if it's on your phone you have the option, if it's not, you don't.
Nice feature to have an option of using, if it's on your phone you have the option, if it's not, you don't.
Smartphone users don't NEED siri, don't NEED passbook, don't NEED a lot of things apple puts into their phones but pushing forward with technology is the name of the game and falling behind is not a good thing no matter how you spin it.
I don't hold my phone at the viewing distance that Apple says requires you not to be able to distinguish individual pixels, nor do a lot people I know.
The PPI of a 1080 screen at 4.5-5 inches will mean you won't be able to see pixels even when you hold it closer like I do when I browse the web at night in bed. It also means that full HD movies will look great, also you'll see more of the website when you're browsing.
Wouldn't have to charge it so frequently. The galaxy S III has amazing battery life so why would samsung take a step back on that tip?
Also the galaxy S III as well as the galaxy Note 2 are very pocketable. Easily fits in the pocket unless you wear women's jeans.
The iphone feels like a kids toy after handling a real phone. Especially with typing.
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I disagree. From experience smart stay never works.
I think the only people who are urging this form of competition is a fraction of the consumer market. I agree things like eye scrolling are bringing innovation to the market, but we are getting to the point where its yet another feature for features sake IMO. We seem to be in a phase now where unless a new smartphone comes packed with a range of never done before features, its simply not competing with its rivals. I think its all getting silly now and I hope Apple bring subtle changes rather than trying to compete against a market it has no real interest in competing with.
At some point companies like Samsung, LG, HTC and the likes are going to plateau with their growth. Share holders will up their demands and they'll be in a situation like Apple where profits and sales are increasing, but expectation is too high and unrealistic. I'm a Product Designer myself and innovation is fantastic, but it can move too fast, whilst increasing expectation onto unsustainable levels.