Simon Chaput, founder and CEO of Boréas Technologies, is quick to point out that the smartphone industry has been stuck with the mechanical button paradigm since the first smartphones revolutionized ...

SL and SR button failure can render a Joy-Con unusable. Remapping the SL and SR buttons can save an otherwise functional ...

After years of speculation and false starts, Apple’s ambitious plan to eliminate mechanical buttons from the iPhone may finally become reality in 2027 with the 20th anniversary handset, according to a ...

Rumors that Apple is hoping to switch a future iPhone model from physical to capacitive buttons persist. Now, a new supply chain report suggests that Apple has placed a supply chain order for a new ...

Apple has offered to replace faulty on-off buttons on the iPhone 5, a rare glitch that it said on Friday affected "a small percentage" of the previous-generation smartphones. The button, also known as ...

If you’ve been following Apple for a few years, you know that the company loves to remove buttons, ports and everything that sticks out. According to a new report from Mark Gurman, Apple plans to ...

The CY8CMBR2044 CapSense Express capacitive touch-sensing controller enables designers to achieve mechanical button replacement (MBR) without having to write firmware or learn to use new software ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. They all have the ability to sense various degrees of presses in parts of the phone that do not look or feel like a clickable ...

Along with the dumping of the headphone jack, Apple could also be preparing to replace the iPhone's physical Home button with a touch-sensitive "Force Touch home button." The claim was made by ...

Apple's upcoming iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models will introduce a new button press combination to power off and force restart the devices, according to an anonymous source who claims to be ...