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iphone 5 mockup - why the big home button?
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I agree with you on the aesthetics part. The going rumor is that its a new gesture based button. With one swipe across the button you would be able to quickly switch between apps much like the four finger gestures work on the iPad in iOS 5.
A bigger home button might be a real thing.
(note the elongated gesture home button)
http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/16/apple...ders-for-next-iphone-on-sept-30-launch-oct-7/
I find it strange that Apple are suing Samsung, for the Galaxy looking like the iPhone, but the main difference is that the Galaxy has the wider 'home' button..
back on topic - I can't see a need for an additional gesture area on the phone, they should be able to add any required gestures to the screen surely?
back on topic - I can't see a need for an additional gesture area on the phone, they should be able to add any required gestures to the screen surely?
The current iPhone 4 is one of the worst phones to actually hold and use as a phone. Too many angular edges.
I assume you know that by trying to be clever like that, it shows that you must actually be worried about it...I wish I had a bigger ... Erm, never mind.
I think all the mockups have it wrong
the cases need an opening that large, because they need to expose the "gesture area"
this doesn't mean the gesture area is also a button. I think the home button will be the same, with the gesture area being around it, but not actually a part of the button.
the cases need an opening that large, because they need to expose the "gesture area"
this doesn't mean the gesture area is also a button. I think the home button will be the same, with the gesture area being around it, but not actually a part of the button.
Agreed. I hate the feel of the i4; it's really awkward. The 3g/3gs is my favorite of them all...it feels great in the hand.
I joined this forum after years of reading to say this bigger button with gesture capability is a warm welcome to someone who is looking to come over to the iphone from BB.
I always believed that a touch screen is great but not for everything. Being able to do a little navigation around the OS with a touchpad like button is nice. This is where I think BB got it right.
Even if this gesture area just acted as a BACK button I would be so happy and would seal the deal for me.
I always believed that a touch screen is great but not for everything. Being able to do a little navigation around the OS with a touchpad like button is nice. This is where I think BB got it right.
Even if this gesture area just acted as a BACK button I would be so happy and would seal the deal for me.
Maybe its a multitouch home button where you squeeze in two fingers and perform pinches and what not. That's the new cool.
Or you could just pinch the screen which is a whole lot larger... As a secondary means to scroll something while holding the phone with two hands and not covering the screen, fair enough, but really, they should have removed the button entirely and made the screen 16:9 ratio, 1280 x 720.
People don't like change. They can't just take the button away from us all of the sudden they have to get us used to using some gestures and then make it an entirely touch button. Slowly convince us we like it. Not that I wouldn't love it. I loved my blackberry trackpad.
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Doesn't look like anything unusual there to me - looks like an iPhone 4 screen without a button and some kind of (inspection?) sticker over part of the empty button hole. Doesn't look "elongated" to me, nor does it look like a new screen size, either, which sounds to now be a foregone conclusion for the new model.
The home button isn't any bigger in that picture. Just look at it, you can only see part of the home button, then it is a square white/black sticker on top of the glass.
I think this, if it happens is finally the final blow to BB, well they've been dying but still by having a gesture area, the iMessage app, and especially if we get a good led notification system, it would be a total blow and wipe them out completely from the competition, plus i'm sure the minute the iphone 5 comes out about 3 android phones will immediately be conceived with intentions to kill the iphone 5, and thus helping end bb completely.
just a question, if this image is real than why has there been such little to no coverage on it, it just appeared in an article almost randomly and no one's really done anything on it specifically, is it real?