“It may be six months before we see the Samsung Galaxy S7, but rumors are already appearing that it’ll have a screen similar to those in Apple’s new iPhones,” Scott Webster reports for CNET.
“According to an I Ice Universe account on Weibo, a popular Chinese social network, Samsung has tapped Synaptics to use its ClearForce technology to respond to various levels of screen pressure, similar to the 3D Touch on Apple’s recently launched iPhone 6S,” Webster reports.
Webster reports, “Like 3D Touch, the future S7 would provide contextual menu options in response to light and heavy screen presses.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Shameless Samsung is nothing but a den of increasingly desperate thieves.
Hopefully, Apple’s patents mean something and can protect Apple’s investments in R&D for a change.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Edward W.” for the heads up.]