The home screen launcher still swipes over to Google Now, though you do lose the Pixel Launcher's long - press app functions, as well as the swipe up gesture to access the app drawer — there's the old - fashioned
button taking up space in your dock instead.
Users can choose one of two options: have virtual home
buttons take up space on the display while the fingerprint sensor is dedicated solely to unlocking the device, or use the fingerprint sensor as all three buttons through gestures — long tap for home, quick tap for back, swipe for app list.
Not exact matches
These butterscotch «
buttons» come together fast and don't need to be baked, which means they won't
take up coveted oven
space on Thanksgiving.
But
buttons also
take up a lot of
space on an e-reader's bezel.
Or at least something with a color screen, or a touchscreen, to get rid of those plastic QWERTY
buttons that
take up way too much potential screen
space.
Aluratek
takes up some of that
space, too, preloading the Libre Air with 100 free books in text format, but you can expand the capacity by inserting a MicroSD card (the slot is located on the top - right edge, next to the power
button).
It remains to be seen if the Galaxy A7 (2018) will carry a 5.7 - inch AMOLED display like the A7 that came before it; it could be slightly larger as the elongated Infinity display will allow for more screen estate in a smaller form factor (and on - screen navigation
buttons will also
take up some
space).
Galligan further argues that the standard 3.5 mm headphone jack
takes up too much
space inside the iPhone for Apple to be able to extend the screen downwards to create an iPhone design that would eliminate the home
button.
A permanent search bar
takes up more vertical
space for widgets, and any Android tablet can open a text or voice search immediately by long - pressing the home
button.
It has even done some innovation to retain the form factor — on the current Sony Xperia XZ phones, the power
button doubles
up as the fingerprint sensor and
takes up far less
space on the device than Apple's now outdated TouchID or Samsung rear fingerprint sensor.
The result should be nearly all screen on the front with no
buttons and barely any camera or sensor
space taken up.
It has plenty of customizable
buttons, and it doesn't
take up a lot of
space in my bag.
Apple's tied to its iconic round home
button, while Samsung can get away with a rectangular home
button that
takes up less
space.
Cons: • So - so battery life • Camera may be good for selfies, but less good for other types of photos •
Button configuration disliked by some • HTC Zoe
takes up too much
space • Not everyone likes Sense, HTC's skin for Android
«Displays on the Pixel (1080p) and the Pixel XL (Quad HD) both look great, with deep blacks thanks to the use of AMOLED screens, and both benefit from the new Pixel Launcher, which makes the software navigation
buttons present in Android smaller, and which also has smaller, rounder icons throughout and a new Google launcher that also
takes up less
space.
The bottom bezel has no function and could have housed a capacitive home, back and app draw
buttons (like the Samsung GS7) instead of presenting these as soft keys
taking up valuable screen
space.
The Moto E uses Android's on - screen navigation
buttons,
taking up a small portion of
space at the bottom of the panel.
Luckily, the Windows, back, and menu
button panel pops
up and down on command, so it doesn't
take up as much
space as the Android navigation
buttons do.
There are no dedicated
buttons and on screen
buttons will
take up some
space.
With 5.5 - inch screens and a pretty traditional
button layout they each
take up a decent amount of
space in your hand and pocket, but the smooth curves of the Galaxy S7 edge are in contrast to the sharper lines of the OnePlus 2.
They did this in answer to the complaints from users that the on - screen
buttons took up «too much
space».
Next - generation fingerprint sensors won't be tied to specific
buttons, nor will they require cutouts that
take up precious
space on the phone.
But that's not a great solution either, because they're tiny and easy to miss; even then they still manage to
take up too much screen
space when every pixel counts on a device of this size, and you'll find yourself staring ruefully at the P10's chunky top and bottom bezels wondering why Huawei didn't just put proper
buttons there in the first place.
It's done to save vertical
space, since the navigation
buttons, status bar, and dock would
take up just under half of the display in landscape.
There's one on each earbud, and each one
takes up a decent amount of
space — they're easy enough to find — but there is so little physical feedback with these
buttons that I spent the first week or so thinking they were touch - sensitive pads.
Apparently, by allowing the Infinity Display to
take up much
space on the front, there's no more
space for the physical home
button there.
Some of that
space is likely to be
taken up by a new «function area» (aka a mini Touch Bar) that will replace the physical Home
button.