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9/21/2016

HTC Ocean, the first full touch smartphone?

Could the next HTC phone have a 

touch-sensitive

Danielle Vermeulen, Designer at HTC unveiled by mistake on his personal website a concept of full touch smartphone without physical button. A clue to the future and HTC Nexus smartphones?

We must admit that the ergonomic innovation is rare today, the smartphone market has reached a certain maturity. Nevertheless, try to re-imagine ways to use his phone is a risk that can be beneficial for manufacturers: it helps to stand out with completely new features. Unfortunately, this is something that has not been tempted by the HTC 10, which includes the design codes of the previous brand of smartphones. Could it be better to innovate with the next model, the HTC Ocean?

Rethinking ergonomics Smartphones

‪HTC Ocean‬‏

After the 3D Touch from Apple, curved screens or interactive LG borders of the Edge range of Samsung smartphones, it is the turn of the HTC brand to try to bring the novelty of its smartphones by offering new concept: HTC Ocean. According to the video released by mistake by a designer at HTC and taken by Evan "evleaks" Blass, the Taiwanese manufacturer working on a concept smartphone with tactile slices to replace the physical volume buttons and locking. This concept is not equipped with visible fingerprint reader, which leaves to assume that it would be present in the touch panel by exploiting a technology similar to Sense ID Qualcomm.