Did I lose you? OK, watch the video from Android Community:
Basically, if you move the phone (with your two thumbs pressed against the screen) toward you, the browser will zoom in. If you move the phone away from you, the browser will zoom all the way out. It’s nice to see in action… until you realise you’ll probably never use it. Whenever I pull out my phone, it’s typically at the same distance everytime. I don’t like it when it’s too close or too far, this new experimental zooming feature would make me change my phone position every time. So it’s cool in theory! But silly nonsense in real life. [Android Community via MobileCrunch]
martyfmelb
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 11:51 AMSeems they have it kinda backward; I would have expected the image to “fix in space” and thus shrink as it comes closer, and enlarge as it recedes, compensating for the optical size at different distances.
Justin Doyle
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:17 PMSo like Samsung to come up with a poor interface solution to a solved problem. I had a Samsung phone once. Great hardware, horrible, horrible interface.
Anthony Tam
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 1:53 PMSamsung should simply toss out TouchWiz and replace it with stock or LauncherPro.
aimless
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 4:33 PMI can imagine how retarded it looks
NaE
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 6:12 PMHey, don’t dismiss something that appears silly. It makes perfect sense for people with impaired vision. And it’s what they would do normally, move the item closer.
I can see the oldies getting used to this interface.
jarrard
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 6:51 PMwhy are people whinging about this?
take your thumbs off the screen and it locks?
so you can move your screen back to wear you like it.
all its basically doing is letting you use your wrists as well as your fingers to control your phone
Steve Tran
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 4:03 PMWho ever said Samsung didn’t make KIRFy phones? This is even more of an IP4 wannabe than the original Galaxy S. I had to do a double-take when I saw the picture and thought they were working on IOS.