The Xperia T places the three Android buttons at the bottom of the 4.55 inch capacitive screen.
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The semi-touch screen is also an interesting variation on the usual touchscreen style, with tactile buzzing feedback when one of the three touch buttons on the external screen are pressed.
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.
The button layout follows the Windows Phone template -- there's the trio of capacitive buttons below the screen, with three physical plastic buttons along the right edge.
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The right side of the phone houses three buttons: the volume rocker, power and the dedicated shutter button.
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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The button layout is also different, as it uses the standard three capacitive buttons for navigation instead of the special tablet-specific menus found in Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich.
The front sports a glass surface with three capacitive buttons and the back showcases the company's Crystal Reflection process -- an attractive patterned glass-like finish that's a bit of a fingerprint magnet.
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The launch screen features three main buttons -- Friends Timeline, Replies, and Direct Messages -- set in front of a cartoon-style city skyline.
The number of capacitive buttons on the front has been reduced to three, with search now absent.
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As we already mentioned, the Nexus lacks hardware buttons, which have been replaced with three softkeys at the bottom of the screen -- back, home and recent apps.
The textured rubber buttons up front have been reduced from four to three, in keeping with the updated user experience of Ice Cream Sandwich.
There were two--and arguably three--buttons that engaged the supply-side revolution, which, in turn, set up the U.S.' long economic boom from 1983--2007.
Three capacitive buttons are tightly grouped along the base of the phone.
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.
But if ten million monkeys sitting at typewriters can reproduce the works of Shakespeare, it stands to reason that three million bored iPhone owners would push enough buttons to find a backdoor this simple.
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