In many cases, the phone can be operated without directly touching the screen, via gestures.
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It's difficult to move the text back without touching the screen, something Smart Scroll is supposed to eliminate.
Swiping with your hand to the right (instead of touching the screen) to scroll through photos for instance.
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You can choose to listen to the voicemail in any order, by touching the screen and the message plays.
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Jobs had come with one of his software engineers, Bill Atkinson, and Atkinson moved in as close as he could, his nose almost touching the screen.
The Touch AF Shutter function allows users to instantly select the exact location they want to focus on simply by touching the screen on the rear of the camera.
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The concept is roughly the same: by waving your hand left and right over the front-facing camera, you can answer calls and navigate through pics and music without touching the screen.
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The touchscreen monitor prototype is capable of 10-point multi-touch option, allowing users to perform multiple gestures at once simply by touching the screen, which is especially useful for portraying and interfacing with images, graphics, complex visual elements or architectural designs.
Windows 8, released in late October, can be controlled by touching a display screen, as well the more traditional use of a keyboard or computer mouse.
The company is working on something similar for computers, so you can, say, point and click your way around the screen without touching anything.
This is a nice feature, but unfortunately sometimes is required because touching small points on the screen do not respond without using the pen.
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You can also move your cursor by touching the spot on the screen where you want to insert a paragraph into a Word document or edit a formula in an Excel spreadsheet.
Orbotix CEO Paul Berberian walked me through how you could control the movement of Sphero through an app for the iPad, iPhone or Android, by simply touching a wheel on the screen or tilting the device in the direction you want the ball to go.
Instead of simply being a phone, he envisioned a tool with no buttons, and a natural user interface that we would interact with using our fingers on smooth glass, as if we were directly touching whatever was displayed on the screen.
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By simply touching icons on the PC's screen, consumers can launch applications, movies, music, zoom in and out on photos and websites, resize windows and handwrite notes.
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It's sort of interesting -- Palm similarly extends the touch area beyond the screen on the Pre and the Pixi, but not quite like this -- but we can't see how touching the bezel next to an on-screen label is much better than just pressing the screen.
You'd wear a simple armband and control what is on a screen in front of you simply by touching your fingers together.
In other words, the screen was overly sensitive, thinking I was touching it when I wasn't.
For instance, users can select a color by touching a virtual palette and then "paint" images on the screen with fingers or a brush.
Instantly activate the Touch AF Shutter function to select the subject you want to focus on and activate the shutter simply by touching the swivel 3.0 inch, 920, 000 dot LCD screen.
If we had a complaint here, it'd be that the screen isn't flush with the surrounding bezel which can making touching the extreme edges and corners a challenge, but we didn't find it to be a big deal.
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