Apple along with its much awaited Apple Watch also announced its new version of MacBook. At the Spring Forward event, it also revised its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro editions. The new MacBook holds some revised features like being super slim and having no fan. It also sports the innovative ‘Force Touch’ trackpad for maneuvering. This Force Touch trackpad works on the amount of pressure exerted by the user to provide a range of controls to the palette. MacBook Pro will also get the Force Touch trackpad.
Force Touch trackpad has inbuilt sensors that allows users to customize his usage of trackpad depending upon their personal habits relating to amount of pressure exerted. In layman terms, it will enable the device to differentiate between light tap and a hard press. This has added a new gesture option for user called as Force Click. This turns out to be a click followed by a deeper press and can be set for specific tasks like checking the meaning of a word or browsing the location, etc. It can be used as an alternative to the conventional right click.
While the industry is pondering at the new features and products, there are already reports suggesting that Apple is considering to impart its Force Touch feature in the next line of iPhones. Such speculations were made earlier in January. While the Apple Watch holds a flexible OLED display unit enabling it to use the Force Touch feature, iPhone too might require similar revisions on its display units. A report by Wall Street Journal covers a varied range of new details on the next generation devices. These are likely to be called iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus.
The reports claims to be sourced from Apple suppliers also speculates that the new iPhones will be available in 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch screen sizes. Screen resolution for the devices is also said to remain the same. Apart from the features, the new range of devices might also offer a pink coloured option in addition to the existing space gray, silver and gold lineup.
Although not much is known about the technical upgrades these devices will receive, one might expect the newer versions to hold more RAM space, improved TouchID and some camera feature upgrades. Integrating Force Touch sensing to iPhones will definitely open a new set of possibilities. Presumably the upgraded devices can be expected by the last quarter of 2015. More such exciting features being planned by Apple include its latest patents on a joystick integration with the Home button and Siri getting lessons on Indian English. It would be interesting to see how many of these Apple actually integrate.
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