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walsufnir said:
Mmmfishtacos said:
YOUR XBOX ONE WILL PRETTY MUCH DOUBLE AS A HARMONY REMOTE
my phone already does this.


Nothing worse than a phone for a remote, in my opinion. No haptical feedback, no "blind" usage. Fail to me.


Basic haptic feedback, throug vibration and clicks, can be turned on in most smartphones and tablets, although "blind" usage is still not possible, unless they devise a smart gesture convention for the touch commands instead of tapping. Its worst flaw is the touchscreen too little to emulate a universal remote. A cheap tablet, would be much better. About the XBOne system, I can't judge it until I see how it works if one doesn't want to use voice commands. In this case I suspect it requires the same number of steps as any other universal remote with the same number of physical buttons available, so it will surely have one-click commands for the most used functions of the main devices and multiple-step procedures for least common functions and least used devices. And obviously, one-click commands will be faster than voice controls.



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