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Whatever you think about Apple, it has a way of introducing hardware features that are quickly adopted by competing phones. By no means did Apple invent gold phones or fingerprint sensors (and the company does occasionally follow others, as it did with large screens), but once it started using these things in the iPhone they became common features in more and more Android handsets.
Today Synaptics announced the ClearPad 3700, a new touchscreen controller for smartphones that will add "ClearForce variable force sensing" to smartphones that use it. We have no doubt that we'll see it (or a controller like it) show up in some of 2016's flagship phones, the ones that all of a sudden and for no particular reason want to include pressure sensitivity. The 3700 also supports a feature called "SideTouch," which lets you use the bezels of the phone for scrolling and tapping without obscuring the content on the display with your finger.
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