The ASUS Zenfone 4 Selfie Pro
actually has a home button which doubles as a fingerprint scanner.
Not exact matches
The centering of the Back /
Home / Recent
buttons means I can no longer comfortably reach them with my thumb — it becomes painful,
actually, and impossible in landscape mode — so now
have to use my other hand to access those
buttons.
But my biggest gripe regarding this new
home button is how hard it is to know if you
have actually pressed it hard enough when the phone is resting on a table off hand.
You also
have to
actually press the
home button to wake the phone up before it will scan your fingerprint, which means an extra step over phones like the latest Nexus devices which unlock with a single touch and no press.
I wouldn't mind the height increase if it meant significantly more usable display, but, due to the removal of dedicated areas for the bottom
buttons (they are now part of the display), when you line up both Ones on the
home screen you will find that the original
actually has more height available on the display.
Then when you
have the FLIRC dongle plugged into your media center and you press the remote
button the media center is tricked into thinking the FLIRC USB dongle is
actually a keyboard and that you
've just pressed the «
Home» key.
A display embedded fingerprint sensor
would actually make the Apple
home button with TouchID sensor redundant, so it is safe to conclude that Apple
has actually taken steps towards getting rid of its proprietary
home button, which
has been there on every iPhone since the first iteration.
Unfortunately, unless you
actually have compatible
home control products, those
buttons will go unused.
Often when this happens, you haven't
actually set the new launcher as a default, so it may be confusing when you press the
home button and it reverts back to your old launcher.
It can
actually work as both the back and multitasking keys by swiping it sideways and long pressing the
home button, which is quite cool to
have.
Unlike traditional
buttons however, you don't
actually have to press the
home button as it's capacitive.
Such a
home button would be flush with the body of the iPhone and
would not
actually depress when a finger is placed on it.Instead, when a user presses on the
home button, haptic feedback will mimic a press, much like the Force Touch trackpad on Apple's most recent MacBooks.
These devices do not
have a
home button that you can
actually press.
A new report may change that, however, by revealing how the removal and replacement of the
Home button, which
has existed on every iPhone since 2007, will
actually work.
A bigger change is the internal strengthening of the casing, Apple
has actually increased the thickness along the power and
home buttons up from 1.14 mm to 1.9 mm.
You
have to swipe the finger down from the bottom of the display, continuing over the
home button (which
actually has the fingerprint scanner).
Without
Home button, here's how new iPhone 8 UI will work A new report may change that, however, by revealing how the removal and replacement of the
Home button, which
has existed on every iPhone since 2007, will
actually work.