When the iPad mini was introduced on Tuesday, much was made of the device’s thin bezel surrounding the 7.9 inch screen, a feature that caused a little concern about inadvertent “touch events”. Don’t worry folks, the iPad mini knows the difference between “bad touch” and “good touch”.
In order to deal with the thinner bezels, Apple is employing advanced touchscreen software that ignores unintended touch events, such as hitting the side of the display when reading an e-book.
While the full-size iPad has symmetrical bezels around its edges, the iPad mini design more resembles the iPhone or iPod, large bezels at the top and bottom of the device, with thin bezels on either side of the screen.
Apple’s iPad mini webpage says:
Rethinking the screen meant we also had to rethink the software behind it. iPad mini intelligently recognizes whether your thumb is simply resting on the display or whether you’re intentionally interacting with it. It’s the kind of detail you’ll notice — by not noticing it.
Apple doesn’t go into details as to how the software decides between a good touch or bad touch.
