The embodiment of the invention discloses a terminal and a method for controlling the terminal, which relate to the technical field of the terminal, and can solve the problem that the operation is notconvenient enough when a user performs one-hand operation on a
mobile phone through a touch screen or a volume key of the
mobile phone because the display screen of the
mobile phone is large. The terminal can include a rear cover, at least two
capacitance sensing modules arranged on the first inner surface of the rear cover, a first
processing module connected with the at least two
capacitance sensing modules, and a second
processing module connected with the first
processing module. A first processing module, configured to acquire a
capacitance value change set of at least two capacitance sensing modules and send the capacitance value change set to the second processing module; the second processing module is configured to receive a set of capacitance value changes, determine whether theterminal receives an input from a user according to the set of capacitance value changes, and respond to the input if the terminal receives the input.