Picture this: you’re sitting in a quiet conference room, engrossed in an important meeting, when suddenly your phone starts ringing at full volume. The room falls silent as all eyes turn towards you, and you desperately fumble to silence the noise. We’ve all been there, and it’s an embarrassing situation that nobody wants to experience. Thankfully, Google has come up with a clever solution to save the day – Adaptive Alert Vibration, a new feature introduced in the recently unveiled Pixel 7a at Google I/O.

Users can customize Vibration Alert Intensity for their Pixel 7a

Traditionally, smartphones have offered limited customization options when it comes to vibration alerts. You could turn them on or off and adjust their intensity for different types of notifications, calls, and alarms. However, the vibration intensity remained constant regardless of the situation. But with the Pixel 7a, Google is revolutionizing this aspect by introducing a feature that allows users to customize vibration intensity based on the phone’s position.

According to a support document released by Google, users can now set the vibration intensity for when the Pixel 7a is immobile and facing up, such as when it is placed on a table. By navigating to Settings > Sound & vibration > Vibration & haptics, users can enable this feature for notifications and alarms. While you can’t define the exact level to which the vibration will reduce, this adjustment is a step in the right direction.

At first glance, this feature may seem inconsequential, as the phone’s screen typically lights up for notifications and calls. However, it’s the little details that make a difference. When your phone is facing up on a table, you don’t need it to vibrate excessively and disturb the peace of your surroundings.

Google’s approach to Adaptive Alert Vibration relies on accelerometer measurements to determine the phone’s motion and data from other sensors to ascertain if the screen is facing up. This ensures that the phone’s haptic feedback remains subdued when it’s in your pocket or flipped upside-down on your desk.

In a world where smartphones are constantly vying for our attention, it’s refreshing to see Google taking steps to offer users more customization and control over their devices. With Adaptive Alert Vibration, the Pixel 7a aims to ensure that your phone never disrupts a moment of silence again.

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Immersion Corporation is a well-known company that is innovating in the field of touch feedback technology (also known as haptics). By providing technology solutions for mobile, automotive, gaming, and consumer electronics, Immersion is accelerating and scaling haptic experiences to create immersive and realistic interactions that engage users’ sense of touch. Recently, Immersion announced that it has taken legal action against several companies of the Xiaomi-Group in Germany, France, and India.

The legal action pertains to infringing on their patents that cover various uses of haptic effects in connection with smartphones. The company has filed complaints against Xiaomi-Group companies and their agents in the Düsseldorf Regional Court in Germany, the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris (Paris First Instance Civil Court) in France, and the High Court of Delhi in India.

Eric Singer, CEO of Immersion, expressed his pride in the company’s almost 30-year history of inventing innovative haptic technologies that allow people to engage with products and experience the digital world around them. Haptics is a crucial aspect of creating an immersive user experience in smartphones, and Immersion’s intellectual property is relevant to many of the most important ways in which haptic technology is and can be deployed.

While Immersion is pleased to see that Xiaomi has embraced the value of haptics and adopted their technology in smartphones, the company is taking steps to protect its business against the infringement of its intellectual property, which it has invested heavily in over decades of its history.

The complaints against Xiaomi assert the infringement of various patents, including the German and French parts of EP 2 463 752 B1, titled “Haptisches Feedback-System mit gespeicherten Effekten” and “Système de rendu haptique avec stockage d’effets,” respectively, and IN 304 396 (India) titled “Haptic Feedback System With Stored Effects.”

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In the past few days, Xiaomi has started to aggressively promote its two upcoming 5G flagships, the Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro 5G, and the Mi Mix 5G. After revealing an extremely curved design for the Mi Mix 5G model earlier today, Xiaomi’s CEO, Lei Jun has revealed one important feature on the second model.

Chinese smartphones have never been popular for their haptics. In fact, even smartphones from OnePlus have fared poorly for haptics feedback. Things did improve with the OnePlus 7 Pro to a great extent but still, neither Xiaomi nor Huawei flagships fare well in this department.

But Xiaomi wants to change that with the Mi 9 Pro 5G.

After announcing that the new Mi 9 Pro 5G will feature strong haptics via a custom-made “transverse linear motor”, Lei Jun reveals that this implementation is probably the best in the Android ecosystem. Currently, it’s smartphones like Google Pixels, LG V30, and Samsung Galaxy Note series models that have the best haptics in the Android market. But the Mi 9 Pro 5G may join this premium list soon.

The earlier teaser revealed that the haptic feedback has a start-stop speed of 10ms, just like a mechanical keyboard. With this Vibration HD feature, the phone will also offer a 4D immersive gaming experience.

So are you excited for the Mi 9 Pro 5G?

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