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Anyone else wish Apple would ditch the home button?
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Man you're right. You sure told me. Always gettin people with the FACTS. Looks like you told the OP too. THEY are the one with the problem right? FACT!
Sorry, gotta agree with AF. How does one accidentally press the home button while typing on the keyboard/browsing the web/playing a game/watching a movie/listening to music? The home button has enough resistance in it that you have to actually try to hard to press it on accident. Try explaining to the rest of us or show us a video of how one hits the home button on accident during normal use.
I like the home button. When you use a virtual home button, we'll get accidental taps and gestures activating it.
Also, what are you guys doing with your home buttons? I have had an iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. Not a single issue with any of them.
Also, what are you guys doing with your home buttons? I have had an iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. Not a single issue with any of them.
A capacitive button is very different then a touch gesture on the display. I want a capacitive button that rotates to the bottom center depending on orientation.
I don't want them to rid it, touch buttons aren't my favourite things...
But at the same time I would like a redesign, I'm not sure how at all, but something.
Having owned a 3G, 3GS and now a 4S, as well as the girlfriends 4, all the buttons have and do feel flimsy as well as having broken on both the 3G and 3GS and the 4, only a few months old already feels flimsy.
I dunno just a bit of a strength upgrade to it I guess.
But at the same time I would like a redesign, I'm not sure how at all, but something.
Having owned a 3G, 3GS and now a 4S, as well as the girlfriends 4, all the buttons have and do feel flimsy as well as having broken on both the 3G and 3GS and the 4, only a few months old already feels flimsy.
I dunno just a bit of a strength upgrade to it I guess.
No touch home button please. It's annoying. Those galaxy 3 phones with touch back buttons are annoying. You keep accidentally touching them. Sucks ain't it?
In case you've haven't used one, its easy to touch the virtual button - Using the phone in landscape mode for photo taking, videos, game sets.
In case you've haven't used one, its easy to touch the virtual button - Using the phone in landscape mode for photo taking, videos, game sets.
LoL you ok man?
Yes if you're "accidentally" pressing the home button it IS your problem, not the phones.
Home button is ok, but what is not ok is how the home button fails over time.
There's many people I know that has an iphone (of any generation) where the home button has failed, or is at the point of failing. My iP4 started showing signs of this, and I was very careful in the way I used it. These days i use the power button to wake the phone rather than use the home button on my 4S.
It would be good if apple engineers could come up with something bulletproof for the home button - or perhaps this is planned obsolescence.
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There's many people I know that has an iphone (of any generation) where the home button has failed, or is at the point of failing. My iP4 started showing signs of this, and I was very careful in the way I used it. These days i use the power button to wake the phone rather than use the home button on my 4S.
It would be good if apple engineers could come up with something bulletproof for the home button - or perhaps this is planned obsolescence.
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I like the home button. Some actual feel when pressing it. You can push it without looking at it, just by feel. I like that.
I have a feeling if Apple was first to do on-screen keys or capacitive buttons and the competition still used physical home buttons, many here would be singing a different tune...
Just a feeling.
Just a feeling.
Love the home button, I just don't see getting rid of it as being futuristic, it's a st backwards in functionality to me. Worse yet is the horrid way android eats up its own real estate with the onscreen buttons in jelly bean.
Some things just feel and work better mechanically. What's next, capacitive volume buttons? A capacitive mute and power button?
Some things just feel and work better mechanically. What's next, capacitive volume buttons? A capacitive mute and power button?
