• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Good lord people, it uses a weight on a spring that’s magnetically actuated. Stop spreading dumb rumors.

    People refer to vibration motors using that phrasing regardless of the actual technology used to achieve the vibration. No one gives a shit that Apple call theirs a Taptic Engine, or that it uses a linear resonant actuator as opposed to something like an offset spinning weight. It is a vibrate motor to 99% of people, even though it doesn’t technically have a motor.

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      24 hours ago

      While that may be a valid observation, at the end of the day magnetic actuators don’t heat up like motors do, so it’s actually a pretty relevant difference.