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** The Blackberry Storm tried to remedy this by making the entire screen a button. Needless to say, the phone didn't really take off.
** Nokia addressed this by using the vibrator to gently shake the phone when a "button" is touched.
*** This is an option on many Android on-screen keyboards, including many by Samsung.
** Talk to any serious typist and you'll find just how important physical and auditory feedback is... it's why some people will shell out $70–$100 for Model M keyboards.
** In fact, The Coconut Effect is an ''essential'' component of user-interface design. People (there are ''extremely'' rare exceptions) get frustrated when devices don't behave the way they expect them to, which includes fake buttons clicking.
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** [[Mass Effect]] addresses this by stating that a man typing on a holographic keyboard usually wears gloves which provide feedback. A real hacker implants chips in his fingers.
** The Wii remote had an interesting method to simulate the "feel" of buttons: every time your cursor passes over a button, the controller makes a very slight vibration.
*** A similar effect is provided by Oculus controllers.
** The [[ZX Spectrum]]'s command-line editor played a short click through the speaker every time a non-shift key was pressed. The duration of the 'pip' could be changed.
* Many low-end digital cameras attempt to simulate the old-fashioned shutter click when taking a picture - some even have inbuilt mechanical contraptions specifically to that effect.
** Consumer digital cameras still ''have'' an old-fashioned shutter click, what with them having shutters, although the noise is practically inaudible in comparison to a $5 disposable camera. The sound they're emulating is more like the action of the reflex mirror in an SLR camera, with a hint of motor-driven film feeding, which is the stereotypical "taking a photograph" sound.
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