Software home buttons, which typically
replace hardware home buttons at the center of the display, are used by many manufacturers for several reasons.
Not exact matches
The new Ice Cream Sandwich interface features an onscreen navigation bar that
replaces the
hardware buttons for Back,
Home, and Menu found with older Android - powered phones.
The updated Ice Cream Sandwich interface features an onscreen navigation bar that
replaces the
hardware buttons for Back,
Home, and Menu found with older Android - powered phones.
The
hardware touch
buttons for
Home, Back and Menu have now been
replaced by sofware
buttons that appear at the bottom regardless of the XOOM's orientation.
The latter is an odd addition since it's meant to
replace the soft
Home, Back, and Recent Apps
buttons in Jelly Bean, which the Vital does not utilize since it has
hardware ones.
Its cameras are loaded with new
hardware to support facial recognition, and the
home button is
replaced by gesture controls.
With the newly launched flagship smartphone, Samsung has removed its traditional
hardware home button and
replaced it with software
buttons.