According to the mainstream media (#fakenews), the next iPhone will no
longer have a home button, pushing the screen all the way to the edge of the phone to make it look sleek and modern.
Next year's tenth - anniversary model isn't quite expected to achieve that vision, but mounting evidence suggests that the device will no
longer have a home button, instead embedding the Touch ID fingerprint scanner into the screen itself.
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If the
Home button becomes a software feature or we
have to activate Siri by
long - pressing the power
button but the features remain roughly the same with a few tweaks, we might all rebel.
I
'd love to be
long - pressing on a
Home button to activate a digital assistant in 2030.
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In younger grades, accidental touches of the
home button will no
longer interrupt usage, and teachers will not
have to fear inadvertent trips to the App Store.
Since the Nook doesn't
have a
home button you
have to
long - press the
home icon on
button savior.
You no
longer have to tap the
home button to bring up all of your quick options, instead they are persistently at the bottom of the screen.
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.
You
have the seminal
home button that will call up Siri if you hold it
long presses and otherwise will automatically exit all apps to bring you back to the main screen.
For starters, there's no
longer a physical
home button on the device so you
have to use the
home button from the menu instead.
So you are free to add shortcuts, widgets and bookmarks to your heart's content, but Samsung hasn't stuffed it full of widgets - there is a useful task manager widget that will let you dive in and see what apps you
have running and quit them, although the widget isn't really necessary, as a
long press on the
home button gives you a modified multi-tasking menu with access to the same task manager as the widget supports.
Do i really
have to
long press
home button and then choose google??
One step up from the Paperwhite is the $ 199.99 Kindle Voyage, which is also six inches
long but replaces the plastic back with a lighter magnesium material,
has a sleeker design, and uses PagePress haptic
buttons, which are basically page turning sensors that vibrate when touched — similar to the
home «
button» on the iPhone 7 and 8.
The
home button is a physical
button and the back and recent
buttons are sensors, and all three
have dual functions for
long press and short press.
Coupled with this are some of the
longest load times I
have had to endure this side of the elevators in Mass Effect — the screen will go black for so
long that I often wonder if my Playstation 4
has died, and will
have to hit the
home button just to be sure nothing terrible
has happened.
Homing attacks, this time around, are much more responsive and Classic Sonic's jump
has been increased depending on how
long you hold the jump
button.
On other Android devices, you may
have to double - tap or
long - press the
Home button.
«For a
long time,
having a smart
home meant you
had to unlock your phone, open up an app, and press a
button within that app just to turn on a light.
Noted Apple tipster Guilherme Rambo says he
has seen the source code and that the iPhone 8 will allow users to launch Siri with a
long press on the Sleep / Wake
button, instead of the
home button.
To access the keyboard in Assistant, just
long - press your
home button as you normally
would.
Whereas until now you
've needed to
long - press the
home button in order to trigger the virtual assistant, with the update, as
long as you're either using the tablets or
have them plugged into a power supply, Alexa will listen out for her keyword.
This might seem like it doesn't save much time, after all, you can setup Cortana as your default digital assistant on Android devices and can set your phone to summon it with a
long press of
home, pressing a
button, or squeezing your phone, depending on what hardware you
have.
Like the 6X that came before, the Honor 7X doesn't
have a front - facing
home button, and its skinnier bezels go a
long way toward giving it a real premium look.
On every Android phone before it, there
has always been physical or haptic
buttons for back,
home, menu, and search, but since the new version of Android
has onscreen navigation, it no
longer requires these.
No, we
would not call it as easy to use as the Zen UI or stock Android but it definitely packs in more power in terms of features — we still love the way a
long press of the
home button on the lock screen activates the torch, as we do the control we
have over the way in which different screens in the theme shift.
Google Assistant is baked right into any phone running Marshmallow and above, and can be accessed by
long pressing the
Home button or by saying «OK Google» if you
've got voice activation enabled.
As it is now, Apple can't ditch the
Home button as
long as it hasn't fixed the Touch ID problem.
I
would bet an arm that Samsung
would have preferred a
long press of the
home button if it wasn't for them wanting to give their users the option to use the Google Assistant.
From now on, whenever you
'd like to learn more information about something on your screen, just
long - press or swipe up on your
home button to trigger the Bing snapshot function.
As we touched upon, the S8's screen - centric design means there's no
longer a physical
home button, as there
has been in Galaxy S devices for years.
It can be launched with a
long press on the
home button — just as you
would to open Google Now — and reinforces Sony's focus on delivering and selling multimedia content.
If you're the owner of a Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8 +, you
've probably noticed that
long - pressing the
Home button toggles Google A...
However, if your movie marathon
has you exhausted and you can no
longer resist the urge for sleep, you can give your device the same rest by simply pressing the
Home button for a
long time then select Sleep.
Apple's Siri
has become synonymous with iPhones and iPads because
long pressing the
home button on an iPhone or iPad fires up Siri, ensuring that the service is always at the, well, service of the user.
To check if you
have Google Assistant or not, just
long - press your
home button.
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.
The
home button also activates the S Voice app by double tapping it, and it also activates the multi-tasking menu by doing a
long press, by pressing and holding the
home button and the power
button at the same time you can take a screen shot, now with screen shots if you are sending them to someone who doesn't
have a Note II, the picture will come out blurry.
In typical Samsung fashion, the Galaxy S6 phones are packed with the latest technology: an octacore Samsung Exynos processor (for the international version, Samsung
would not confirm what processor the US models will use); 5.1 - inch QHD Super AMOLED displays; 3 GB of RAM; 32, 64, or 128 GB of internal storage; 16 - megapixel cameras with optical image stabilization; a new fingerprint sensor in the
home button that no
longer requires a swipe; an infrared heart - rate monitor that Samsung says also helps the camera obtain accurate white balance; integrated support for both Qi and PMA wireless charging; fast USB charging that's 1.5 times faster than the Galaxy S5; a speaker that's 1.5 times louder than the S5's; and integrated support for Samsung Pay, which uses either NFC or MFT (LoopPay) technology for transactions.
That being said, it's time to say goodbye to the
Home button with the introduction of the iPhone X and Face ID, meaning you'll no
longer have to worry about pesky fingerprints to access your precious iPhone ever again: all you'll need is your face!
You may
have to wait a little
longer than you
'd like for a radically redesigned Samsung Galaxy S8, no
home key included, with an AI
button instead.
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.
The physical
home button that
has long been associated with Samsung Galaxy phones will
have no place on the S8 and instead, buyers of this phone will
have to do with a virtual
home button that will reside towards the bottom side of the screen, something that a number of Android devices already
have.
That's not far from the truth, given how that
home button itself
has been a part of Samsung phones for so
long.
That said, Samsung hasn't removed the Google Assistant, so you you can still just
long - press the virtual
home button if you
'd prefer the efforts from Mountain View.
Now that Google Assistant
has taken the place of Now on a
long - press of the
home button,
having Now integrated into the launcher is your best bet.
Like the Echo and the Echo Dot, you can use the Tap to tell Alexa to play music, control smart
home devices, get the news and more, and with a new firmware upgrade, you no
longer have to push a
button first.
Many iPhone 4 users complained about non-functional
home buttons after
long use, and although Apple seems to
have solved this issue, the company details how Liquidmetal will help make the
home button more durable.
Specific to the iPhone X are a couple of changes that come about as a result of not
having that
home button: you now swipe up from the bottom to go
home, a
longer swipe will allow you to access the apps that are open, and then there is a circular thumb motion or left and right swipe at the bottom of the screen to change apps.