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iPad 3 'Home Button' Parts Start Circulating in China

BTW said:
It would be nice to have no physical button but I understand the engineering aspect of having one. Overriding software with the physical button is the only reason there is one. No matter where you are or what you're doing pressing that button will interrupt the current operation. A software solution may not be the optimal method to override that. I believe all handset and tablet manufacturers have a physical home button of some sort.
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Not all. There is for example Nokia N9. All swipe.

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lucascampelo said:
Apple isn't using any of them. Take a closer look. :rolleyes:
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Apple is obviously using two in the home button alone. The square and the circle. And, I'm sure I've seen an X within the UI somewhere. Obvious copying. Cupertino start your copiers!
 
Shadyriley said:
The home button I'd too iconic for them to take it away, its part of their design and brand. I think they put a led under the white circle for notifications when it's off.
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As much as I feel physical buttons are a good thing, the iPad is an excellent contender for a button-less front face, since it ends up dictating which way up you use it, and you could argue that the iPad should be more of a directionless design than an iPhone, since you don't have to put it to your face.

Though obviously this ground breaking find suggests otherwise (sarcasm, it's a button)

As for being an iconic design, you could say the same about the click wheel and the G4 iMac, Cube etc. They're all iconic to Apple, but eventually their function or design gets replaced with something better/worse/different. The alternative was to use a five finger "pinch in" to get back to the Home screen and for instance, as much as I feel Launchpad is useless, it certainly works well on MacBooks.
 
divinox said:
Not all. There is for example Nokia N9. All swipe.

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Apple is obviously using two in the home button alone. The square and the circle. And, I'm sure I've seen an X within the UI somewhere. Obvious copying. Cupertino start your copiers!
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Nokia N9 has a power button and a volume rocker. Try again.
 
Well seeing as the iPad and iPhone share some similarities, perhaps this is indicative of the fact that Apple aren't ready to move away from a physical button yet?

It's not a significant piece of news of course, but it could (faintly) suggest that the next iPod/iPhone will keep the button too...i.e. no gesture, touch-pad that was rumoured for the iPhone 5.

*shrug*
 
chrf097 said:
Not to be rude, but is this really that important? I mean, they look identical! I hardly see any difference! I doubt the iPad is going to change much. A higher-res screen and maybe some minor visual changes, with all the biggies under the hood. Just my 2 cents. It's MacRumors News and Rumors you care about. Is it really that big a deal if the iP3 has a pretty much identical home button? Not something to really care about.
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It does indicate a few things:
1. the iPad3 won't be button-less, like many posts suggest
2. the iPad3 probably won't have a guesture area, long rumored to be in iPhone 5
3. the iPad3 is coming! :)

I care!
 
Tiger8 said:
It does indicate a few things:
1. the iPad3 won't be button-less, like many posts suggest
2. the iPad3 probably won't have a guesture area, long rumored to be in iPhone 5
3. the iPad3 is coming! :)

I care!
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Agreed, a home button it self is not exciting, the fact that we hae visual proof of the home buttin is kind of exciting, since it is the first visual proof of any iPad 3 part at all.
 
Tiger8 said:
It does indicate a few things:
1. the iPad3 won't be button-less, like many posts suggest
2. the iPad3 probably won't have a guesture area, long rumored to be in iPhone 5
3. the iPad3 is coming! :)

I care!
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Except it's identical. For all we know that could be an iPad 2 button and someone says it's the iPad 3 button.

Plus, 3 was really obvious, considering the iPad is the #1 tablet.
 
3bs said:
And I always thought it was a completely smooth circle with no edges
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It is. What you are seeing is the flange on the bottom of the button that keeps the button from falling out when you turn the device upside down and the flat edge is to keep the button from spinning.
 
divinox said:
Sony should sue. They have a patent on the following shapes and forms. Apple is blatantly copying.

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Apple is obviously using two in the home button alone. The square and the circle. And, I'm sure I've seen an X within the UI somewhere. Obvious copying. Cupertino start your copiers!
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When Apple copies, it's ok, but when Apple sues Samsung because there is an A in it, it will be fair and just. The hypocrisy knows no limits.
 
This revised home button suggests that Apple will be changing out the chip to a quad core running a new 2 ghz on chip gpu. They'll also be bumping the resolution up by a factor of 4, reducing the thickness to half what it is today, using a liquid metal back and internal frame, include new subwoofer 5.1 speaker system and record breaking 20 hour battery life.

At least that's what I'm seeing with this part.
 
mdriftmeyer said:
I don't. A lot of the patent interfaces center around the Home Button.
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Why can't there be a soft "home button"? Why does it have to be a physical button? Android is moving away from mechanical home buttons - just look at the Galaxy Nexus. Apple's home button is like the one button mouse - the industry has moved on with improved designs, yet Apple clings to the old.
 
chrf097 said:
Except it's identical. For all we know that could be an iPad 2 button and someone says it's the iPad 3 button.

Plus, 3 was really obvious, considering the iPad is the #1 tablet.
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From the back it looks different
 
I don't think you can/should get rid of the physical home button. It is the last ditch resort to killing a locked up app, before going to the power button. And it has to be mechanical to overcome a locked up device in which the software is otherwise unresponsive.
 
I don't want to sound mean or anything, but why does anyone care what the home button looks like?
 
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