Honestly, I would welcome a capacitive home button. I have had home button go bad on two phones (even though I usually use gestures via Activator most of the time).
Who are these gorilla hands that ruin their home buttons anyway?
It's not necessarily the users fault. With the iPhone 4 design, dust got behind the button easily which decreased it's functionality. I know for me, I had to click 3-4 times to get the fast app switching drawer to pop up( when it should take 2) on my old 4. Or I had to click twice to go to the home screen.
I don't have gorilla hands by any stretch, and my old iPhone 4's home button has started to become less reliable. I did make heavy use of the multitasking feature, so I did a lot of double clicking. For a near 3 year old device, I'm more than happy to put it down to wear and tear, and my mum doesn't let it get in her way of using it![]()
Yes, really. My old 4's home button completely failed after 6 months and again at 18 months. My 22 month old iPad 2's and my new 5's button is already not registering every push.
I'm glad you've had a good experience, but this a well documented issue with many people that is large enough to warrant a fix.
I had mine fail in my iPhone 4 - it's been dropped, run over, and beat up (and only a couple minor scratches to show for it). The only problem I have had is the home button became intermittent. All I had to do to get it to work was drop it flat, face down and it would work perfectly for a few days. I finally bothered to open it up and reseat the connector a while back and it has been absolutely perfect since then. My iPhones have been my most reliable phones to date - I've had Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and way back, NEC. Reception is excellent and the build quality is great. On the Samsung the volume buttons acted up from time to time, and the Nokia the volume buttons acted up but I had scored a used Nokia which I gutted for parts to keep mine going.
I've never like capacitive buttons on any device I've used - going back to the original Playstation 2 all the way to today's latest Android phones.[/url]
Really don't buy this one at all. Sapphire? Aren't iOS devices expensive enough as it is?
Definitely welcome news if true. I hate the current home button.
I love the home button; the lack of one is one of my biggest complaints about android devices.
I seriously hope this rumor is true. Can you imagine how jealous Android fans would get?![]()
I seriously hope this rumor is true. Can you imagine how jealous Android fans would get?![]()
Yes, really. My old 4's home button completely failed after 6 months and again at 18 months. My 22 month old iPad 2's and my new 5's button is already not registering every push.
I'm glad you've had a good experience, but this a well documented issue with many people that is large enough to warrant a fix.
Forget the home button.
The big story here is the idea of sapphire crystal to replace gorilla glass Sapphire crystal is nearly indestructible.. My wrist watch has a sapphire crystal, and is utterly scratch proof
If true, this is huge
Sapphire-glass is cheap aluminiumoxide, and aluminium is the third most abundant element (after oxygen and silicon) in the Earth's crust.Really don't buy this one at all. Sapphire? Aren't iOS devices expensive enough as it is?
Who are these gorilla hands that ruin their home buttons anyway?
I'm one of them. I had an iPhone 3G that had a home button fail well before my contract ran out, and my iPhone 4's home button is starting to flake on me. It's pretty common, actually. It's the reason I won't buy an iPad until this gets fixed. I'll be damned if I'm going to drop $500 on something that is rendered useless by a broken button.