Hovering touch can replace the accused operation

With the expansion of mobile phone screens, people are no longer content to touch on the screen, and new touch experiences have also been brought into people's lives. However, science and technology are always moving forward quickly. Recently released flagship models are all equipped with gesture operation functions. In addition, Japan’s NTTdocomo held a mobile phone model summer conference in 2013 and introduced in detail the use of mobile touch screens. The new "HOVER" technology, which allows the finger to lightly move away from the monitor, can also be easily operated.

This marks the mobile phone has been moving toward the "air operation era" process. Although this is a technology that looks highly technologically attractive, can hovering touch really replace the finger touch operation and lead people into the hovering touch operation again? For now, it is obviously difficult to achieve the leaps of this era.

First of all, let's take a look at the two phones that have been released with hover touch.

Xperia sola MT27i is Sony's mobile phone product launched in 2012. One of its selling points is the support of floating touch technology. At that time, this technology was mainly used in browsers to view web pages. If the web link was too small, The finger point is likely to be wrong; users just need to use their finger near the screen of the Xperia sola MT27i, and within about 1cm, the link the finger points to will be underlined (or other mouseover effects) so that the user can know Where do you want to go? Sony also said at the time that although this technology can currently only be used on browsers, it has not yet been extended to other applications on mobile phones; however, in the future, the use of hover touch applications will be extended through cooperation with developers and software upgrades.

Despite this, we have not received follow-up related news, and no longer use this technology in Sony's latest mobile phone product Sony Xperia Z L36h.

Another one is the recently very hot Samsung Galaxy S4. Samsung calls this “floating control gesture” “non-contact gesture operation function” because S4 has a selling point of eye tracking technology, so I prefer to group them together into “floating touch”.

Therefore, when using the S4, the user can not only use the gesture to operate the mobile phone, but also perform "Eye Pause" and "Eye Scroll" to control, open and close the browsing page. Although the product has just been on the market, not many users have evaluated this function. However, there have been media reports of this feature of the S4 is very tasteless, not only prone to misuse, and eye tracking technology will feel very strange. Even advise users to turn off this feature when using the phone.