On the bottom black bezel, you'll find the Nook's signature lowercase "n" physical home button.
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The Irex also lacks a Home button, a note-taking function, any way to highlight text and a built-in dictionary.
Although the form factor has evolved, it still sports the same touch screen, rounded-edge square apps, and home button.
By hitting the home button and saying "Starbucks, " I got the closest locations.
To use multitasking you just press the iPhone's home button twice and a row of icons representing running apps appears.
The sleek and customizable devices are also differentiated by smart LED lighting around the home button to mirror users' unique styles.
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Along the top you'll see the home button, the percentage of the text you've read, battery life and a button for settings.
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Below it, you'll see a physical home button flanked by a menu key on the left and back arrow on the right.
Hughes spent nine weeks creating the solid gold chassis of an iPhone 5 and then placed the black diamond as the home button.
Android supports comprehensive multitasking, letting you pop from Google Music to Angry Birds and back again with a few long-presses of the home button.
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Whereas the home button was almost completely flush with the rest of the body on the GS3, the S 4's is raised a fair amount.
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).
Users will be notified of incoming calls through the home button.
Devices will also receive the ability to change the home button's LED to correlate with contacts, pause and resume video recording, color emoticons and refreshed QRemote functionality.
Long-pressing the Home button brings you to an app switcher exhibiting six of your most recently active apps, with a Task Manager loitering with malicious intent beneath them.
The handset's got a fairly nice bezel, with the front-facing camera on the top and a home button on the bottom, flanked by illuminating back and menu touch buttons.
Verhoeven points to the home button on the machine.
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New to Claystone 2.0 is the tandem launcher, which allows users to quickly switch back and forth between the Claystone environment and another launcher with a single press of the home button.
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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.
There's a new Google Apps icon which opens up a tray containing a number of featured services put out by the search giant, and long-pressing the home button brings up a vertical Honeycomb-style multitasking menu.
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He said Ubuntu makes it quicker and easier to find apps and content than other smartphones by swiping from the screen edges rather than going in and out with the home button to find and switch applications.
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.
As for the rest of the front side, the menu and back keys flank the home button on the left and right, respectively, which is completely opposite of the layout used on a large number of OEM Android devices.
Earlier this year there were rumors about Apple ditching the physical home button on upcoming iOS devices, and now we have what appears to be a new iPod touch prototype matching such description, courtesy of CrunchGear via Mr. Blurrycam.
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That tail is useful because it adds depth to the OS, in the form of a vertical row of "cards" which appear when you long-press the home button, and which grow intelligently based on what Google can glean about your life.
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We'll admit: we would have preferred to just tap the home button instead of click on it, especially when we were ready to switch apps, but nonetheless, Android makes for an intuitive-enough desktop operating system, what with the home screen full of shortcuts.
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Apple says they've figured out how to implement third party multitasking without hurting performance or battery life, and they're demoing it now -- you just double click the home button and see a list of your apps, and you can just tap to switch between apps.
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Between the plastic and the display is a flush black bezel that gets a bit thicker on the top and the bottom, housing the trademark "n" home button -- a signature, the company explains, that helps people orient the device even when the screen is off.
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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.
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