New iPhones to Have Tactile Feedback, says Report

The latest coming from the iPhone rumor mill is that haptic feedback (or tactile feedback) is on its way for the touchscreen phone. An anonymous Apple employee told Palluxo.com that Apple is licensing haptic feedback technology from Immersion Corporation for the iPhone.

Haptic feedback is the ability to "feel" keys when they aren't actually there. One of the biggest complaints of the iPhone is its lack of any kind of haptic feedback. Users cannot feel keys, so it can make it harder to use the touchscreen interface. Using a type of haptic technology, like from Immersion, could answer those complaints by at least providing some kind of a physical response when touchscreen keys are pressed.

The haptic technology being looked at by Apple will likely incorporate very slight vibrations as punch in letters or numbers into the iPhone's software based keypad. It would be similar to that used by Samsung in its U740 European touchscreen phone. When pushing a button the phone provides a very minor vibration letting the user know that a button was pushed.

Add this to the upcoming 3G and GPS and the iPhone is inching its way to perfection.

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