Android has actually been able to recognize pressure over an area but it hasn't been widely used. Furthermore, implementations like Apple's 3D Touch require pressure sensitive displays, which only ...

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3D Touch is one of the iPhone 6s’s coolest new features and now Marco Chiappetta has shown that it’s possible to add this feature to at least some Android phones by hacking their barometers.

Sign in to your Android Police account Read update After removing the '3D Touch' experiment, we've confirmed that Instagram has added the feature back in the latest version of the app.

The ability to detect pressure in touch screens and turn it into functionality: whether you see it as a gimmick or not, we can’t deny we do need more layers of interaction to make smartphones flow ...

Most of us have heard of the 3D Touch features of iPhone, but quite few of us have heard about the 3D Touch on Android devices which is also called Quick Shortcuts. Today we have for you a video ...

3D Touch is one of the big new features in the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, as it allows the devices to know how hard you're pressing on the screen. This has obviously led to many iOS apps now ...

Apple wowed the world with its own 3D Touch, alternatively called Force Touch, on its iPhone 6S last year that allows users to configure commands based on the "force" of their touches on the ...

An Android phone with '3D Touch'? (hands-on) Gionee's newly unveiled S8 makes an appearance at Mobile World Congress touting a feature that previously belonged only to Apple's phones.

Back in 2017, Google brought long-press actions with Oreo that mimicked Apple's 3D Touch without the need for pressure-sensitive screens. Despite the result being similar, Android users needed to ...