For a tablet that's likely to be used for media playback, it doesn't lend itself well to landscape viewing with its
static hardware navigation buttons, and the speakers are both week and positioned poorly for landscape viewing as well.
With industry shifting from LCD to AMOLED displays, and
from hardware navigation buttons to software based, the negative effect on frequently displayed images may become an issue — some UI elements may imprint onto the screen — temporarily or permanently.
While the rear of the phone is reminiscent of the ones found on the S6 and S7, the front end will lack the
familiar hardware navigation buttons and the fingerprint sensor — that component gets kicked to the back, next to the rear camera and heart rate reader.
Disabling of
the hardware navigation button is also a limitation with this OS.
As Honeycomb doesn't rely on
hardware navigation buttons, these three little touchscreen squares are key parts of the Android Honeycomb experience.
At the front, Samsung is still sticking to
hardware navigation buttons, with a physical home button and touch menu and back buttons.
Like other Android devices, the Tablet S has
no hardware navigation buttons, which are all implemented via persistent on - screen buttons.
For instance, HTC kept
the hardware navigation buttons on the bottom of the One, but moved the Home button to the right and placed a logo in the center spot, which does nothing.
While the use of AMOLED displays in handsets is nothing new, this is the first time around for many manufacturers to produce a near bezel-less device that removes
the hardware navigation buttons and replaces them with persistent on - screen ones.
There's a decent amount of bezel above and below the display that makes the handset quite tall, especially considering there are
no hardware navigation buttons.
The hardware navigation buttons are backlit, allowing for easy access at night.
Samsung got rid of
the hardware navigation buttons last year on the Galaxy S8, paving the way for on - screen keys.
The OnePlus 3 has the option of using either capacitive
hardware navigation buttons, or on - screen buttons.
Screen size and ratio improved, one of the dual back camera changed from telephoto to wide aperture, fingerprint sensor moved to back,
hardware navigation buttons to soft navigation.
An added bonus with the switch to the 18:9 form factor is the removal of
the hardware navigation buttons, with Xiaomi now offering on - screen keys instead.