Because the system "knows" when a user is reaching for the controller, menu buttons on the screen are hidden when not needed.
The last time it froze, holding down the play and menu buttons together for several seconds caused it to reset, and the familiar Apple logo appeared on the screen.
Throughout the built- in applications you can have menu buttons appear at the bottom of the screen, be pulled down from the top, slide in from one side, have the hub alert slide in from the other side, or have the hub alerts replaced by yet another menu.
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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.
Garmin's concept positions the screen higher up on the dash in the driver's eyesight and combines it with a rotary infrared controller in convenient reach, a touch pad, and menu mode buttons.
As well as that dominating QWERTY, there are menu and navigation buttons above and below dedicated WhatsApp and camera keys.
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But where the Note 8.0 strays is one of its key improvements: users can now effect the capacitive menu and back buttons using the S Pen.
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Things are, by default, a bit more finger-friendly than your average Windows desktop, with bigger buttons and menu options.
So with Office 2013, you can access those ribbon buttons and menu options with your finger, as long as you have a touch-screen monitor.
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.
For example, on the User Interface for the HM-901, you'll notice that the buttons and a rotating navigation menu cleverly comprise the main interface.
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Large, tactile buttons control basic operation, menu and media management.
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There's a 3.5mm headphone jack next to the power button and micro-USB port, a dedicated camera button and volume rockers on the side, and just below the screen there's the familiar Android menu, home screen, and back buttons.
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.
We also appreciated that most functions remain governed by standard switches, buttons and dials instead of an annoyingly complex menu-driven multimedia system of the sort that tends to hamper most upscale cars these days.
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Windows 95 featured the first appearance of the Start menu, taskbar, and minimize, maximize, and close buttons on each window.
Four buttons arrayed in a circle bring up the command menu, play and pause songs, and shift forward and back.
The small stylish buttons that control the interface are stiff and the animated menu moves like a slide show.
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The only time we noticed a bit of pause was when we tapped the touch-sensitive buttons lining the bottom of the 4-inch screen (these include menu, home and back, in that order).
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Insoo doesn't even have to take the phone out of his pocket to send an SMS. He knows how to slide it open, which buttons to push how many times to reach the "Send SMS" menu option, compose the entire text message, and hit the send button -- all without even looking at the phone.
That 0.1 numbering gives a good indication of just how light the visible feature set might be, though -- other than an existing update to substitute the virtual menu button for a long-press of the home key, the interface changes are mostly limited to dedicated buttons for switching browser tabs and between different cameras.
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The Menu button is gone and there's no physical camera button this time around, either, but the volume buttons can be used as such if you don't feel like tapping on the screen.
On the front face of the unit you've got your standard "back" and "forward" buttons plus a slider, which keeps it simple and works intuitively to navigate in and out of the menu hierarchies.
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