Samsung Galaxy S III to arrive with a home button, after all the internal debates, and a five-row UI
0. phoneArena posted on 10 Apr 2012, 02:20
A last minute design change kept a single rectangular home key on the Galaxy S III, and the handset is to have a five-row UI like on the Galaxy Note, the latest rumor from Korea reads...
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1. barondebxl posted on 10 Apr 2012, 02:23 15 3
I'm not sure how I feel about the home button but regardless ,I will be getting the phone.
2. Mark.J.Linskiy posted on 10 Apr 2012, 02:23 9 9
I really hope there won't be a physical button, at least not on the U.S. variants.
15. mad5870 posted on 10 Apr 2012, 06:45 5 0
The US version could be like how the Galaxy S2 is. where they have just the four.....crap i'm drawing a blank on what they are called.........
Whatever i'm sure you know what i'm talking about
28. Mario1017 posted on 10 Apr 2012, 12:41 1 0
Of won't have the 4 buttons, they would be the back home and recent apps buttons
34. mad5870 posted on 10 Apr 2012, 14:12 0 0
Yeah it would probably be the three like you said. I was just saying that it would probably be similar to those style of buttons. Mostly because look at the US version of the S1 and S2 then compare it to the Other Variants
32. Jeromeo posted on 10 Apr 2012, 13:38 1 2
Set a North American Galaxy S family phone down on a table or desk.
Now, try to quickly* or easily unlock it without picking it up, using more than one finger, or without picking it up.
My sister can unlock her iPhone 4S at work while it's lying on her desk at work simply by pressing down on the home button with one finger. I can tap the home button and swipe to unlock my Android HP Touchpad without picking it up and with only my index finger.
A single unlock button on the side or top, with no alternative button, forces you to use other fingers to grip a phone side to compensate for pressure on the opposing side (to keep it from sliding). I need a second hand to tap the power button on my mom's Galaxy Tab unless it has its gel case on (which creates resistance) when it's lying on the granite counter or glass table--without sliding it all around which scratches the back of it.
Also, Samsung's right side only unlock/power button is much easier to use for a right-handed person than it is for a left handed person. A centrally located screen activator (home button) is equidistant from either hand.
The hardware home button is not a technological blunder or ancient technology until we find a true, convenient replacement for it. Possible solutions might be smart forward facing cameras/proximity censor gestures/sonic sensors (Nokia was experimenting with those)/capacitive surface recognition/etc.
42. dsDoan posted on 11 Apr 2012, 14:20 0 0
Me, too. No physical or capacitive buttons on my ICS devices, thanks.
5. anywherehome posted on 10 Apr 2012, 02:33 2 3
better to make the phone smaller or display larger....wasting of space
and the rotten apple can not sue it so easy
13. bobfreking55 posted on 10 Apr 2012, 05:33 5 2
yeah, apple might go suing for it again, and if this becomes the phone that destroys the iphone's sales, they will try to ban it and they won't stop.
design wise - buttons are good, but i think they are not really needed.
buttonless!
plus, if it goes buttonless, people would all be like: OMG IT HAS NO BUTTONS, and if apple decides to go buttonless, people would be like: APPLE COPIED SAMSUNG.
lol. :)
6. PackMan posted on 10 Apr 2012, 02:36 4 1
i hope its just rumor, home button means bigger bezel and loss of potential screen space .
7. KingKurogiii posted on 10 Apr 2012, 03:11 4 1
i'm with the buttonless design team. the u.S. Variants have never had the home button so there's nothing really iconic about it over here.
8. plgladio posted on 10 Apr 2012, 03:31 3 2
I too go for buttonless design, because my Samsung Galaxy Spica have 7 +4 way physical button, I'm too tired of this when I really need a new mobile I've to think about SIII, Samsung please release with buttonless...
9. GeekMovement posted on 10 Apr 2012, 03:49 2 2
buttonless sounds good. i personally don't like the physical home button (i even prefer the standard 3/4 android touch keys instead), but the galaxy nexus looked really nice without anything so hoping that will be the case with galaxy S III.
10. Sniggly posted on 10 Apr 2012, 03:52 2 4
Dumbass choice to include a home button on a phone with ICS, because it's ridiculously redundant. It's like rocket fins or "spare wheel humps" on cars. It could look right under the right conditions, but often just looks ridiculous.
11. ScottSchneider posted on 10 Apr 2012, 04:03 1 1
Whaoooo.... I couldn't sit on the Chair while Reading this above... The Whole World is Trembling with THe News of SGS3...
12. anywherehome posted on 10 Apr 2012, 04:53 3 1
Samsung is maybe the only company who deserves that :)
17. nyamo posted on 10 Apr 2012, 06:52 0 0
the only good thing with the s2 and the home button was the ability to get it to pulse for notifications
18. Atrixboyyy posted on 10 Apr 2012, 09:10 1 0
I had no idea that button lit up lol that's cool I'm not a fan of the button+ICS idea but if I could get it to pulse too that would be great.
19. PostalJim posted on 10 Apr 2012, 09:27 5 1
If it was raining $50 bills, there'd be people complaining they weren't $100's.
20. WirelessCon posted on 10 Apr 2012, 09:58 0 1
I like the capacitive buttons on the US versions, but I have no problem with a physical home button.
It's more tactile.
I do NOT like the idea of losing screen space to the visible ICS on-screen buttons.
I want the full screen for landscape browsing.
21. kylehudsons posted on 10 Apr 2012, 10:10 2 0
at least a home button would be nice for easy unlock...
I dun really like to press the side for unlocking a phone....
23. dcgore posted on 10 Apr 2012, 10:29 0 0
From the distribution perspective, i think they should've gone with the buttonless approach. This means that in the US the phone has to be conditioned to the 4 buttons at the bottom.
One, Samsung would've avoided the whole iPhone copycat thing and two, it would be much easier to have a worldwide launch. Why is there a need to complicate things?
25. Droid_X_Doug posted on 10 Apr 2012, 11:31 0 0
If the handset ships with a physical home button, Apple will sue. Better to avoid the whole litigation mess, and ship without a home button. As others ave posted, a home button is redundant with ICS. Unless the handset is not going to ship with ICS?
26. gallitoking posted on 10 Apr 2012, 11:41 0 4
knowing Samsung the Galaxy SIII will come with Gingerbread and possible ICS by the end on 2013
36. taz89 posted on 10 Apr 2012, 17:17 2 0
samsung have already said the next flagship will come with ics so wrong again
27. remixfa posted on 10 Apr 2012, 11:48 0 0
why is everyone so up in arms about this? the american versions have never had a big home button. IF this is true, then it will be an international version. At worst, the american version will have the 4 button bottom deck we are used to, if buttons at all.
im still torn on the whole button/buttonless issue.... hmm...
29. Droid_X_Doug posted on 10 Apr 2012, 13:03 0 0
Since ICS is buttonless, and my RAZR is essentially buttonless (the home, menu, etc. 'buttons' are the capacitive kind), the whole question about buttons vs. buttonless seems to be headed toward buttonless if you want Android.
I suspect for the GSIII, the issue will turn on what O/S it ships with. Gingerbread will have some sort of button setup. ICS will have no buttons.
33. remixfa posted on 10 Apr 2012, 13:51 0 0
capacitive is not buttonless... buttonless is buttonless. means screen only and no capacitive buttons... like the gnexus.
40. Droid_X_Doug posted on 11 Apr 2012, 00:45 0 0
Capacitive would seem to avoid litigation exposure. If the GSIII ships with ICS, there would seem to be no need for buttons. Gingerbread, OTOH, would require buttons of some sort.
31. ohiojosh78 posted on 10 Apr 2012, 13:11 0 1
So lets take a step BACKWARD with our new flagship device and put a physical button back on the front, also adding to the total size of the device. Thanks Sammy, I was actually going to buy 2 x SGSIII for us but you've made my decision easy now. I'll pass.
35. Walter.D.DROID posted on 10 Apr 2012, 16:06 0 0
Samsung don't do it :@ i was afraid that SGS3 would come with home button, damn.. i guess if it turns out to be true, specs must win for this "mistake" and hopefully, a beatiful design.
37. taz89 posted on 10 Apr 2012, 17:18 0 0
hope the physical home button is true...have never like capacitive or touch only buttons...
38. _PHug_ posted on 10 Apr 2012, 19:46 0 0
I prefer buttonless.
If it HAS to have buttons PLEASE go with one physical home button and not capacitive buttons.
One physical button comes off as too Apple-ish in my opinion, opening up the possibility for more legal headaches.
Lord knows Apple invented buttons
39. freakatronic posted on 10 Apr 2012, 21:03 0 0
Oh no no!! I wanted it to be completely buttonless! I hate the excessive bezel at the top and bottom of some phones *cough iPh...* I really hope buttonless is the technology we're heading to. Try drawing a phone with a very small bezel up and down and you'll see it looks great and futuristic.
And unlocking a phone with no hardware keys on the front shouldn't be such a hassle, people. Look at the Nokia N9 with its double-tap solution. Works beautifully!
Now, ok, if Sammy wanted physical buttons, at least they should've added the three basic ones à la One series. But with this "genius" decision, now there's gonna be wasted space both on the bezel and on the screen due to the onscreen keys. Kinda redundant to me. Still want one, though.
41. kylehudsons posted on 11 Apr 2012, 09:15 0 0
then we better hope that S3 can be unlock by double tapping on the standby screen since i really hate to reach for the sides to press the lock button then slide the unlock....
its more efficient to press a button in front then unlock...
43. Crave posted on 12 Apr 2012, 00:12 0 0
WTH are you going on about?
Why would they put capacitative buttons on the GSIII instead of the physical home/on/off button? One has nothing to do with the other.
As someone else mentioned above, the physical button could be there to replace the side/top screen off button found on most android phones.
And the on screen buttons do not waste screen space. They actually give more screen space, as they disappear when you're watching a video (I think?)
Also, when using the camera app the button could be tweaked to double as a shutter button, if they deprive us of one.
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