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Originally Posted by dole
the bottom portion of the screen (with hard keys) is capacitive, which means it can tell where you're pressing on the bottom portion and (i believe) it's just not hardware switches right underneath the home/back/call/end "button" on the screen. so when you press the home, call or left "buttons" on the left side, it's pressing the same button and it can tell if your finger's between the home and call buttons and interprets it as a "left". if you want to press "left", you're better off staying farther away from the rim of the center button than you think (especially for palm converts). rich's pic above was the one i wanted to find and reference. interesting the "arrow" goes all the way to the sides, though, didn't know that.
check the following link, may also explain things a little bit...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/20/h...t-not-how-you/ |
This is great. And with no technial knowledge of this but just experience, I would second this claim. I've known that the ring is a arrow d-pad the whole time, but have had a heck of a time getting the left and right to work properly (up and down was never a problem). Whenever trying to go left or right I would always inadvertantly hit the select (center) button. After reading this post- he's right, you can click almost directly between the home and call or back and end and it will treat it as a left or right. Very helpful!!