Touch Buttons Cost Half As Much As Physical Controls
CEO Benedetto Vigna says production costs for touch controls are 50 percent lower than those for real buttons. Ferrari will put more traditional controls inside its cars. Existing Purosangue and…
Polestar Is Finally Giving People What They Want: Buttons
With new regulations taking effect overseas and customers still fed up with screens, automakers are finally starting to dial back the touchscreen overload. Even Polestar—a brand that launched with nearly…
Story behind PlayStation’s decision to go with symbols over ABXY buttons on its controllers
Walk into any video game store and you will see game controllers sporting the familiar A, B, X, and Y face buttons. These became the standard, with Nintendo laying the…
Mazda Explains Why It Removed the CX-5’s Buttons
“Never change a winning team,” as the saying goes. The CX-5 has racked up precisely 4,761,329 sales since it arrived in 2012, making it Mazda’s best-selling vehicle in the current…
Ferrari Admits It Made a Mistake When It Deleted Real Buttons
When Ferrari showed the Amalfi last night, we were pleased to see that the Roma’s successor received a more powerful V-8 without resorting to a hybrid setup. Another highlight is…
iPhone 16 Prototype Mockups Hint at Redesigned Camera Layout, Modified Volume Buttons
Apple’s purported iPhone 16 series of smartphones might feature a new external design, according to a report. Mockups of the rear and side of the successor to the iPhone 15…
Jenson Button’s McLaren P1 up for sale
It’s not terribly often a McLaren P1 surfaces on the pre-owned market. Now one is available and its first owner was a former Formula 1 champion. Jenson Button’s P1 is…