Not exact matches
But the
buttons on the wheel spokes,
which you touch all the time, are plastic and much less
tactile
It gets controls for the audio and calls, the
buttons for
which feel
tactile.
Therefore, you'll now find 11
buttons and controls instead of 27 along with a wider, 8 - inch touchscreen
which comes to replace the old 7 - inch
tactile display.
The
buttons and knobs move with precision and offer a delicate
tactile feedback - and there is an optional TFT display
which allows drivers to project an extra-large navigation screen right in front of the driver.
I like that it has a knob, instead of hard or soft
buttons, but didn't have the
tactile feel that I was looking for, just nearly imperceptible clicks,
which made it hard to nail down a station.
There is also physical page turn
buttons,
which should appeal to people who dig the
tactile approach.
The power and volume
buttons have a good
tactile feel, and are placed on the right where they are easily accessible with a thumb or forefinger depending on
which hand you are using the phone with.
If you're looking for a phone that can stand up more drops, dings, and dirt than the average smartphone, and you like the idea of
tactile buttons, there's no reason not to snatch the Galaxy S5 Active up (provided you're on AT&T), as it's priced the same $ 200 on contract as the standard Galaxy S5,
which has nearly identical internals.
To compensate for the thin bezels, Samsung joined most other Android phone makers in ditching the physical home
button and replaced it with an icon,
which can sometimes even be hidden, but
which (as on the iPhone 7) has a
tactile response built in to make it feel like you're pressing a
button.
Our panelists preferred the M590's near - silent
buttons,
which provide
tactile feedback without a loud click, but at the time of writing the M590 was more expensive and harder to find than the noisier M585.»
There's also a
tactile Windows
button on the bottom bezel
which can be used to access the Start Screen.
The
buttons are designed to give you
tactile feedback,
which makes it easier to use the device without looking at it.
Samsung has eschewed the physical
buttons,
which I thought added a nice
tactile touch to the Active lineup, and went with the capacitive
buttons found on other Galaxy models.
I definitely enjoyed the power and volume
buttons,
which feel pretty solid and provide good
tactile feedback.
The limited
tactile feedback of these
buttons makes typing slower and far less satisfying than other keyboards in
which the
buttons rise higher from the surface.
The best
tactile indication of
which side of the phone youâ $ ™ re holding is probably the side - mounted power
button,
which protrudes from the middle of the right side, has a satisfying amount of travel, and is flanked by the phoneâ $ ™ s volume rocker and Micro SIM card slot.
On the right you will find the power
button and the dual Nano - SIM tray, while on the left there is a power rocker and also the famous alert slider, back with its signature
tactile pattern
which makes it extremely easy to identify.
The middle
button itself bears a hint of gold in the form of a small ring around it as well, and all three
buttons are solid and springy, but not clicky,
which is a perceptible difference in the
tactile feedback of other smartwatches.
Change has also made its way to the touchpad,
which offers integrated, not
tactile,
buttons.
The weak
tactile feedback was not as much of an issue with the Redmi Note 4, but with the Mi A1, the unsatisfying click on the power
button often prompted me to inadvertently half - click it again,
which led to situations where the camera app opened up when I expected the phone to have its screen off.
For quick response, the case is equipped with
tactile buttons,
which can be pressed easily.
The only real physical annoyance about the X Play is its loose volume rocker,
which rattles when I move the phone around and feels nowhere near as nice and
tactile as the ridged power
button.
We're mixed on the new design,
which trades The Dash's touch controls for
tactile keys; The
buttons are much more accurate, but pressing them with the «buds in your ears can put even more pressure on your inner ear than before.
Most of the
buttons offer a nice, solid
tactile feedback, apart from the standby
button,
which has a sense of looseness to it.
The display looks as good as any other smartwatch and the
buttons are
tactile and programmable
which is nice, but the real area this watch stands out is with its accurate fitness features.
Of course, some changes had to be made to the Galaxy S formula to make this feat a reality — gone are the Samsung logo and the
tactile home
buttons,
which shift the fingerprint reader to the back right next to the camera lens.
Lenovo found that out the hard way with last year's version of the X1 Carbon,
which introduced a unique row of touch - sensitive function keys and ditched
tactile touchpad
buttons.
It's also got a deeper
button press,
which has a much more
tactile experience compared to the shallow push of the
button in the original 2016 model.
The
buttons also have a nice
tactile feel to them and are a tiny bit loose,
which might bother some, but it wasn't an issue for me as it didn't affect the functions of the
buttons at all nor did it make them too easy to press or anything like that.