Interactive fingerprint scanner: One of the grievance we had with the last G4 Plus was that the fingerprint scanner on the front was just meant to unlock the device and did not
serve as the home button.
A Touch - Sensitive Reading Interface The Nook Color comes with few physical buttons: just Volume controls on the right panel, a Power button on the left, and the «N» logo below the screen that
serves as your Home button.
There's only one button on the front: the stylized n that
serves as Home button in most instances.
The Nook Color comes with few physical buttons: just Volume controls, a Power button, and the «N» button that
serves as your Home button.
A button with a lowercase»n' beneath the screen
serves as the home button (in addition to activating the GlowLight).
The back of the Nook HD has a shallow indent with a recessed Nook»n', while another tiny»n' sits beneath the screen and
serves as a home button, while the tablet comes in either grey or white.
Just below the 7 - inch LCD display sits a metal stylized «n» that
serves as the Home button.
That Nook «button»
serves as a home button that turns the color screen on when it's asleep; for energy - saving purposes, you can set the screen to turn off after 10, 30, or 60 seconds when not in use.
There's a small «n» logo button underneath the display that
serves as the home button for the device.
You can just rest your finger on it to turn on and unlock the phone, but it doesn't
serve as a home button.
Sporting a round metallic exterior and a digital crown on the side (also
serves as the home button), the Movetime is a good standalone watch.
The battery leaves much to be desired at only 3,000 mAh, and it will also have a fingerprint scanner that
serves as the home button.
The Digital Crown also
serves as the Home button and a convenient way to access Siri ®.
Once on, it displays a button that
serves as the home button.
Not exact matches
The film does lose steam in the
home stretch with Niccol
serving up some dialogue that is too on - the -
button (such
as a line where Viktor lays bare all his reasons for creating Simone) and some mechanical plot twists that are less than surprising.
Adding to the inconsistency, while the touch screen works with gloves, these capacitive
buttons — which
serve as shortcuts to the
home screen, the audio source, navigation and destination input, and track skip controls — do not.
And that's all to say nothing of the fact that the BlackBerry Motion's mushy, poorly built
home button — that also
serves as the device's fingerprint sensor — is inexplicably built on a hinge.
Now the n
button on the Nook Color sometimes
serves as Home, but within apps it acts
as a Back
button.
We also love the aesthetic touches: the thin chrome strip around the edge that widens on the top and bottom; LEDs ring the
Home button and
serve as the notification light; a holographic pattern graces the back and reminds us of the Nexus 4 and original Optimus G.
Slightly above the bottom grill sit the three touch - sensitive
buttons that
serve as the primary means of navigation through the Axon 7's hardware: «back,» «
home,» and a shortcut to the multitasking menu.
Triby IO, a new smart
home product from French company Invoxia, is a speaker that also doubles
as a HomeKit switch, allowing HomeKit scenes to be added to the five
buttons on the device.Designed to be attached to the wall or placed in a room to
serve as sort of a
home hub and entertainment unit, Triby lets users listen to music and radio.
Instead, the
home button on the front which acts
as a fingerprint sensor also
serves the navigation functions on the phone.
The device will be backed by a 3300mAh battery and a physical
home button that also
serves as a fingerprint scanner.
The left side holds the dual SIM slots, one of which can also be used for a memory card, and the volume and power
buttons are on the right — the power
button also
serves as a notification
button, glowing when a notification comes in (a neat touch we think, and once again bringing back memories of the Z9 Mini, which had a glowing
Home button).
In addition to
serving as the
home key, this
button doubles
as an astonishingly quick fingerprint reader which can be used to unlock the phone, launch locked down apps, or view locked down files.
Below the display, the usual two soft keys (recent apps and back) sandwich the physical
home button, which also
serves as the phone's fingerprint reader and Google Now call - up (press and hold for Google Now, the search giant's voice - command answer to Apple's Siri).
Credit: Jeremy Lips / Tom's GuideThe right side of the S3 has two
buttons: The upper one works
as a universal back
button, and the bottom
button serves to return you to the
home screen or the app menu.
There's a
button on the left side that
serves as a
home and back command, with two on the right that can be used for volume controls for music.
The mBack
button actually
serves as a physical
home key, capacitive back
button, and also a fingerprint scanner.
Above that are four touch - sensitive areas of the screen that
serve as back, menu,
home and search
buttons.
You can tap this on - screen
button, and it will
serve you
as a back key, while you can press it (force touch), and it will act
as a
home key.
Having such a large chin below the display is generally reserved for phones with something there to
serve a purpose; a fingerprint reader,
home button or a speaker
as we saw on the previous two generations of flagship Nexus devices.
The
button itself actually
serves as a capacitive back
button, hardware
home button and a fingerprint scanner.