The Thrive's got a haptic display and a button to lock the screen orientation.
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Many people who grew up in Waterbury before 1970 remember school trips to the Mattatuck Museum to see the 10, 000-piece button display, Charles Goodyear's rubber desk and colonial era tools and clothing.
Just above the display is a devoted button that will pop up the retractable flash directly above.
The actual operation of the machine, handled by a simple four-button LCD display, was both logical and intuitive.
While this usually works, Facebook fails to display this virtual menu button for some reason, forcing us to live with the annoying default notification settings.
Very rarely does BlackBerry 10 display a "Back" button on the screen, which is a blessing.
Situated beneath that display is a tiny home button, a first on the nano. (Previous iPods had click-wheels or no such buttons at all.) That makes one of five buttons here -- yes, five.
How can companies like Samsung, LG and Dell keep their Windows Phone 7 (WP7) handsets looking cool and different when Microsoft specifies the basic button layout, display resolution and user interface framework these companies should use?
Head-on, the Note 8.0 looks just like any other high-end Galaxy device: capacitive buttons for menu and back hug the physical home button below the display, while the company's logo, a front-facing camera and sensor reside up top.
Adjacent to the display, you'll find a new LV button, which, as you may have guessed, launches the new realtime display mode.
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Customers then have to push a button for the phone to display the familiar grid that Apple claims infringes its design.
The graphical Back button moves around from one display screen to another.
The myTouch series also features the Genius Button, a capacitive key underneath the display that sits next to the menu, home and back keys.
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Samsung had argued that Apple had failed to licence a patent it owned which describes pressing a button to make a handset describe its display.
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We discussed the extremely narrow display bezel, striking RGB notification ring around the home button, recessed camera lens and IR blaster (for the QRemote functionality).
With a press of a button, the dash-mounted driver's display can be toggled between 2D and 3D and the results are quite good.
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Click the E-Fn button on the bottom right, and you can actually reassign the button mapping on the back to your liking on the display.
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' While watching a video, with the touch of a button, the video will become a floating window on the display.
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Normally, this information would be hidden behind several button pushes, or tucked into the corners of the main display, obscuring the action.
"It is operated by a single push button and could not be more simple: one push to display the time, two for the calendar day and three for the seconds, " says designer Marco Biegert.
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However, the glasses have a special button that makes both lenses of one player's glasses display images for the left eye, and both lenses of another player display images for the right, allowing each to have their own 60fps feed all the time for private split-screen gaming.
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Speaking of the display, this one is swipeable, allowing the user to cycle through without pressing a button repeatedly.
There are other off-putting details too: if you press the Start button on the lower bezel while the screen is propped up, the entire display moves.
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One-touch zoom on 5-megapixel images, by simply swiping across the display, is an addictive and welcome addition, allowing you to still use the physical button to capture high-speed images.
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The new, ultra-slim TomTom Runner and TomTom Multi-Sport GPS sport watches feature an extra-large display, full-screen graphical training tools and the industry's first one-button control to make it easier for users to access the information needed to stay motivated and achieve their goals.
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The all-important "back" button in the Lexus is a small box in the top-right corner of the display.
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Hit the power button and you'll have to wait for about three to four seconds for the display to pop on.
Now, there are a couple of obvious red flags here -- using "four or five fingers" sounds pretty unreasonable for a 3.5-inch display, though it'd certainly tie in with recent rumors that Apple's turning sour on the physical Home button and might indicate that the complete redesign we're hearing about could include a slightly larger display.
She left the car in one fluid motion, not even pausing to push the locking button on her security key, and entered the school and walked urgently down the hall, past the display of photographs of "Astronaut Moms and Dads" grinning in their orange pressure suits as they held up models of the space shuttle.
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