Motorola's phones could soon do away with all physical buttons

The Motorola Moto Z3

Despite the HTC U12’s solid features, the smartphone’s pressure-sensitive buttons were received quite negatively by most users. Motorola, however, seems to think that it can do a better job.

As revealed by a recently-published patent, the Chicago-based brand is researching a new gripping system that individually fingerprints each user’s fingers. This technology could be applied along the sides to smartphones, tablets and even Moto Mods, and would allow the device to determine how it’s being gripped and how much pressure ...