Unlike that device though, there are no physical buttons up front -- be they capacitive or mechanical.
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The textured rubber buttons up front have been reduced from four to three, in keeping with the updated user experience of Ice Cream Sandwich.
On the right, the top and bottom buttons scroll up and down and the middle button selects.
Another quirk that'll surely annoy some folks is how much the buttons light up -- they're jarring indoors, being brighter than the display on its highest setting.
Along the base, the central physical button is emblazoned with the Microsoft's newest logo, with the back and search capacitive buttons taking up the rest of the bezel below the screen.
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It's a good bet, however, that the smartphone (or tablet) will continue to replace "unnecessary" interfaces and buttons cluttering up your home, whether that's through a WiFi-connected TV remote, on-screen home energy management, shopping list reminders through a hooked-up refrigerator or possibly even a dishwasher with remote activation.
You poke big buttons to load up things that you want to load.
He said the focus of Mr Hammond's treatment over the next six months would be rehabilitation - making sure his balance is back and he is able to do learned everyday activities that people tend to take for granted, such as doing up buttons.
Mother Vera came out after him with a coat in her hands, cuffing him across the ear and forcing him into it, while the blacksmith and the fishmonger and the man who sold buttons propped Vladisa up in the snow and gave him water.
Hardware wise, the Nexus does look incredibly thin and sleek, and while there's not a slew of buttons (those four up front are clearly touch sensitive), there is a dedicated volume rocker along the side.
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Its long hem folds up and buttons into the neckline, morphing it into a shorter jacket with what resembles a capacious game pocket albeit one more likely to contain an iPad than a day's haul of pheasant.
In last week's Barbershop, we mentioned some talk making the rounds, mostly on emails, about whether or not you could be turned away from the polls if you show up wearing buttons of T-shirts promoting a particular candidate.
The 10-inch tablet UI has also received a slight tweak, moving closer to the design for phones and the Nexus 7, with centered navigation buttons and the notification area up top.
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The player also doesn't make the most of potential screen real estate, due to the three large buttons and Philips logo taking up roughly a quarter of the its face -- an odd choice, given the GoGear's touchscreen.
Four buttons arrayed in a circle bring up the command menu, play and pause songs, and shift forward and back.
It's not all touchscreen, though -- several buttons (controlling a pop-up flash, power, zoom toggle, and shutter release) are also part of the somewhat bulky build.
You can also use it to perform gestures to replicate the Android buttons -- hold and swipe up for Menu, down for Home and left for Back.
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More than anything, the idea was to demonstrate the unique key design, in which the buttons move diagonally, as opposed to up and down.
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This all-new configurator software for the Razer Nostromo comes with an improved user-friendly interface that belies its advanced macro programming capabilities, allowing gamers to conveniently customize all the buttons with any game command to open up a massive repertoire of commands and combinations right under their fingertips.
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The next row up in the panel contains three buttons that take you to the advanced menus for WiFi, AudioWizard and system settings.
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Both options feature lens-mounted zoom toggles, pop-up flashes and dedicated video capture buttons, but only the P520 offers a dedicated mode dial, and if you're planning to make changes on the fly, that's really a necessity.
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Once up and running, try out the buttons at the top left-hand corner.
Using the Sonos app on my Android phone, I followed the steps to set up the Bridge and Playbar by pressing buttons on each device.
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On a day Ahmed is home, he sets up the laptop, hits a few buttons and -- like magic -- he's transported by satellite into his homeroom.
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Sitting in a tiny glass capsule, Gerard will get to press the buttons and pull levers that operate Samson and lift up loads, the first member of the public to ever take the behemoth's controls.
The Razer Nostromo's all-new configurator software is as easy to use as it is deadly, allowing gamers to conveniently customize all the buttons with any game command or key binding to open up a massive repertoire of killer combinations right under their fingertips.
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The pad can be a bit finicky, too -- while it does a fantastic job of recognizing standard Windows multitouch gestures, its own three-finger swipe, used to view the next or previous page of configured buttons, fails to register unless your fingers are lined up perfectly.
They are kind of small and bigger buttons seems like it would be easier to use along with taking up more of all that empty landscape.
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