It's basically a slider phone with haptic touch screen and some music/video playback features.
The Samsung Armani phone was officially unveiled yesterday in Milan and specs seem to be the same except for the haptic touch screen, which is a nice addition.
"There's no more 'I didn't get the e-mail,' or 'My roommate didn't give me the message.' " Jamie and Dylan variously text, videochat, and use haptic touch screens, and Jamie changes her ring tone for Dylan to their song, "Closing Time" — a song carefully chosen, Gluck said, to be "both make-funnable and anthemic" — then changes it back after they fight.
While flexible bendy-phone technology is not yet thought to be ready for mass production, technologies like this, in addition to haptic feedback screens (which communicate using the sense of touch) dual displayed devices such as the new YotaPhone archetype and augmented reality are truly on the radar.
But with haptic feedback, on-screen buttons can be made to feel real and are easier to use.
§ Advanced responsive touch-screen (haptic feedback).
Previous rumors saw the company moving to a behind-the-screen haptic version, along the lines of what Samsung introduced with the Galaxy S8 earlier this year — something that seemed to be backed up by recently unearthed patent grants (though patents are a pretty spotty source for new features).
By contrast, similarly unsubsidized 8-gigabyte 3G iPhones cost 499 euros ($700) in Italy or 350 pounds ($619.19) in the U.K. The Nokia phone will include all the trimmings consumers have come to expect: 3G data connectivity, a 3.2-megapixel camera, built-in global positioning system and a touch screen with "haptic" tactile feedback.
Touching the screen creates haptic feedback, an industry first, according to Cadillac.
Cue incorporates screen swipes, haptic feedback, a multitouch interface and what the company describes as natural speech recognition.
