There's something at the bottom of ice cream sandwich powered devices that really bug me. It's the bottom bar, where the home button, multitasking button and the time live, see having this on all the time losing a lot of the devices screen real estate, it's only a little less than a centimetre on the screen but it's one centimeter could be put to better use.
Now for the bottom bar isn't really that bad for tablets as Google have conviently put the home button and the notification centre in a easily approachable area but for the smart phones especially the Google nexus, i appreciate what Google have tried to do with the introduction to virtual buttons rather that physical ones but it's waste screen real estate at least Google had the common courtesy to make the bottom bar black so it wasn't using as many pixel power as it needed to.
i prefer physical buttons over soft touch buttons or virtual buttons, if you take the shell off a phone that has soft touch buttons it will reveal that it's only a touch screen... that touch screen is antipicating when you're going to hit which is wasting but not a lot of battery life. physical buttons are the way to go for any smart phones.
i'm a bit hypocrital here because I've got a pre 3, the pre 3 or any other webos device expect from the touch pad has got a gesture area, that's a soft touch button that has three ambient sensors and depending on which way you swipe the lights will follow. swiping up on the gesture area is basically a home button so i can't really talk but what i'm getting at is phones with virtual home buttons waste so much screen real estate and should be put to better use.
sorry if it doesn't make any sense but you get the idea of what i'm trying to say.
there's nothing been going on in the tech world this week that have got a lot of coverage or nothing that i have no opinion on
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