Two sensors just below the screen detect when you reach toward it and automatically trigger more information to appear for example, play, pause and other controls show up along the bottom of the audio menu.

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To further placate customers that opt-in for the handset, as well as to make up for the glaring lack of Android 4.0, elements of that more advanced system have been incorporated into the Ion: a screenshot shortcut (visible on the power menu) and audio controls on its lockscreen (accessible by swiping the time display to the left).

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Each face of the cube was a menu option for a multimedia app: YouTube, Audio, Images, Browser, Video, and Amazon MP3 downloads.

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By turning on the high quality streaming option in Music Unlimited's settings menu, songs will playback in pristine 320 kbps AAC high fidelity audio.

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