Whether you touch buttons on the screen or on the keyboard is a very small part of your interaction with the device.
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.
The cheap looking capacitive touch buttons aren't much out of the norm for Android, but interesting the phone doesn't have any haptics to let you know if you've clicked one.
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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.
According to a pamphlet obtained by datacider, the MEDIAS family will soon be welcoming a Gingerbread-powered N-06C, which closely resembles the N-04C except for the extra 0.2mm thickness plus 10g weight, as well as touch buttons instead of physical ones.
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The gear selector comprises a vertical row of P-R-N-D-S touch-screen buttons on the left of the central LCD touch screen (shades of the '64 Plymouth Valiant).
As we turn the corner into popularizing touch interactions, buttons will still have a place.
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In touch mode, buttons and menus are spaced farther apart to reduce the chance of accidentally hitting the wrong one.
The card has touch-sensitive buttons and the ability to create a "one-time password" - doing away with the need for a separate device sometimes needed to log in to online banking.
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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We're liking both the black chrome bezel and the touch-sensitive buttons, which eliminate virtually all of the visible gaps on the front of the phone to give it that smooth, slate-like appeal that full-touch handsets typically want to shoot for.
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At first glance, there were definitely some things we liked about Samsung's 10.2 megapixel NV24HD: the UI's touch-sensitive buttons (as opposed to a crowded touchscreen), the 2.5-inch AMOLED display looks great (even in direct sunlight) and the camera shoots generous 720p, 30fps video.
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Some of us could barely complete a thought without touch pads or scroll buttons, but we understood that high-speed data systems did not belong here.
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It was a touch darker than the Apple buttons, and it drove him "crazy" for weeks.
The Cybook Odyssey is one of the few readers to offer a perfect touch screen management AND mechanical buttons.
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The device snaps over the back of the Vita while allowing access to all buttons and the rear touch panel.
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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.
It's a neat idea -- 10 customizable screen-packed buttons headlining a small touch display for using custom apps, creating macros and launching applications -- but not much has changed about the interface over the last eight months.
Whether or not the keyboard cover will feature buttons or a flat, touch screen setup is unknown.
The buttons were distinct to the touch, and had a tactile feel when being pressed, and there weren't too many by any means.
Sadly, with a mess of WiFi signals and Bluetooth devices at the Las Vegas Convention Center (TV Connect included), navigating TV Connect's Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean interface could only be done via physical buttons -- the TV Touch remote is otherwise advertised to interact with the camera by placing a cursor on screen, navigable by physically pointing the giant remote at your screen.
Toggling through all of this using the device's buttons made us really miss the touch functionality on the Nook and Kobo.
Other exclusive features include vibration feedback so you know it received your touch-screen commands, tilt sensors and buttons programmable for both short and long presses, doubling the available functions.
There's not much else to be found on the tablet: four customizable buttons (for mouse clicks, touch toggle, application launch etc.), an LED indicator (dim white in standby, bright white in touch mode and orange in pen mode) and a fabric tug to store your stylus.
This is great example of taking simple tech and making it better without adding more buttons, or worse, adding a touch screen.
It's a natural positioning once you've got your fingers firmly positioned in the crook on the back of the device (of course there are no physical page turn buttons here, unlike the Nook Simple Touch).
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Touch screens have particular appeal in portable devices because virtual buttons and other controls appear on screen only when required.
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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