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Apple's new pressure sensitive screen is the marquee feature for the iPhone 6S Plus.
3D Touch is a new pressure sensitive screen which recognises gentle and forceful touches to do different things on the phone.
The P9 Plus is one of the first Android devices to have a pressure sensitive screen, which Huawei calls Press touch.
The iPhone 6S Plus promises richer interactions with a pressure sensitive screen, a better camera with new "Live Photos" and longer battery life, despite it having a smaller capacity battery.
It's biggest selling feature is a pressure sensitive screen, which allows new gestures and a 12-megapixel camera that can capture Live Photos – still snaps combined with a short video shot at the same time.
If rumors are to be believed, though, the S7 should bring plenty of new stuff under the hood: a 3D Touch-esque pressure sensitive screen, a USB C port, and the rumored return of the sorely missed microSD slot (which Samsung dropped in the S6/S6 Edge to the dismay of many).
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Android might add native support for pressure sensitive screens in the future, but I remain unconvinced by any implementation thus far.
Leaks suggest the new flagships will have pressure sensitive screens — a la Apple's 3D Touch addition — plus faster charging via a new USB Type-C port, camera enhancements and beefier chipset hardware.
This isn't he first we've heard of pressure sensitive screens from Apple: It filed a patent in November last year that described a similar system but with sensors that were placed beneath the screen and reacted to being actually pressed, rather than located in key areas and using triangulation and relative force detection to triangulate input.
The pressure-sensitive screen is interesting on paper, but in practice has no killer application.
The new pressure-sensitive screen provides options for more gestures based on pressing harder.
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