ForcePhone can bring Appleā€™s Force Touch to Android smartphones

ForcePhone is bringing Apple’s Force Touch tech to Android smartphones

Force Touch was introduced back when Apple announced its Apple Watch and its 12-inch MacBook. After the technology was ported to the companyā€™s iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, other manufacturers decided to bring the technology to their own handsets. Huawei Mate S and Meizu Pro 6 are examples of Android running devices that feature this particular technology, but ForcePhone has decided to do the Android smartphone community a huge favor by bringing this cool new feature to their devices.

A small group of University of Michigan engineering researchers have pulled off what with what they call ForcePhone. ForcePhone is an experimental piece of software that doesnā€™t need any special screen or built-in sensors to enable 3D Touch. In short, any smartphone in the world that features a microphone and speaker will be able to run this software, which pretty much means every single smartphone in the world released so far.

Here is how ForcePhone works; it sets your speaker to emit a tone at a frequency higher than 17kHz, which cannot be heard by human ears, but can easily be picked up by your handheldā€™s mic. This will still be able to recognize the vibration caused by the near-silent sound, and thus detect weaker and stronger presses on the screen, plus squeezing actions of the phoneā€™s body.

This will allow a whole new world of user interaction to open, allowing you to clutch your device in a specific pattern to dial 911, for instance, or push slightly harder than usual on the screen to activate options similar to a computer mouse right-click.

While ForcePhone sounds extremely cool, it will take a very long time for the technology to be placed in smartphones.

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Muhd. Omer cannot control his love for tech, so he became an author at Techworm to report on the latest happenings in technology, and to educate others

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