We often wonder why more Android manufacturers don't experiment with such specialist shortcut keys - particularly with the increasing scarcity
of physical home buttons.
With a rectangular face and
physical home button at the bottom edge, it looks like a little tiny smartphone, but not quite a pretty one.
Unlike many other 18:9 smartphones, the Honor V10 features a front -
facing physical home button with an integrated fingerprint sensor.
From the images we can see the adoption of a
new physical home button, which is presumably where the fingerprint scanner will be housed.
The only two differences we can find are the inclusion of dual cameras and a more
rounded physical home button (as opposed to a square one).
These images revealed some interesting design changes that include an OLED display screen with curved edges, a larger 5 - inch display screen as well as a
missing physical home button.
Just don't lie to yourself it was almost apple and samsung only who were using
physical home buttons in their devices samsung had all those years to move it away but they didn't because apple was using it and when they are done with it samsung decided to follow, by they way iam not an apple fanboy but iam not a samsung fanboy either.
As smartphone screens have gotten more expansive — think Samsung's Galaxy S8 or LG's G6 — smartphone makers have had to remove
physical home buttons from the front of their phones that could double as fingerprint readers.
So, when
removing physical home buttons could result in lower - cost handsets, with larger screen - to - body ratios, featuring one less thing that could break, why would anybody still want one?
These renders show the iconic
physical home button below the display which is available across all the Galaxy series smartphone to date.
Physically, the device looks similar to Samsung's Tizen - powered Gear 2 Neo, though it has no exterior Samsung branding or the distinctive
physical home button found on the Gear 2 Neo.
On the front the Galaxy A3 retains the typical Samsung design language with a prominent
physical home button sitting in the centre below the display, flanked by the usual recent apps and back keys.
Samsung's well - known design motifs make a return, with the signature
physical home button up front, now with an integrated finger scanner, flanked by the capacitive back and recent apps keys.
While physical home buttons with integrated fingerprint scanners are certainly going to stick around for the foreseeable future, especially in lower cost models, it won't be long before we see flagship smartphones sporting some fancier, hidden alternatives.
While the Mi 5 came with a thin and
long physical home button with integrated fingerprint sensor, the Mi 6 features a big oval shaped home button.
A
single physical home button sits at the bottom of the front panel, bearing the BlackBerry logo and doubling as a fingerprint recognition sensor.
Beneath the 7.9 - inch display is Apple's
standard physical home button, while above the screen you get a 1.2 - megapixel front - facing camera with 720p HD video support and the option to make FaceTime and Skype video calls.
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The front is nicely done, with the 4 - inch capacitive 480 x 800 pixel resolution Super AMOLED display sitting beneath a single - piece front, with a single
physical home button centrally flanked by two touch controls for menus and back.
You'll still find Samsung's
famous physical home button below the display, but it's been enhance on the S6 Edge with a more premium feel and solid clicking action.
Since Samsung used a
dedicated physical home button on all its phones prior to the S8, the method for taking screenshots is slightly different on those.
There's no mistaking the S6 for anything other than a Samsung device though, with the
signature physical home button, flanked by capacitive home and recent apps keys, still present, along with the standard button layout of the power button and volume rocker to the right and left respectively.
A newly revealed user manual also confirms the single front - facing shooter (likely an 8MP unit) will feature its own dedicated flash, while the front -
mounted physical home button is to double as a fingerprint reader.
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