ICS on RAZR will reduce effective screen size to 4.0" ?

[eps]

If one of the major UI "enhancements" of ICS is to use screen real estate for buttons (effectively reducing screen size of GN from 4.6" to usable 4.3"), then will ICS on RAZR have the same effect? Reducing screen size to 4.0" from 4.3"?

 

[digitalslacker]

I would imagine not. They have buttons already so they'll use them. I similar to how all the ICS ports work now on devices like the Nexus S

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[jlee91780]

I worried about this too. I imagine Motorola will have to put out their version of ICS so there goes the idea that ICS will solve Android's fragmentation issues. However, apparently those screen buttons aren't there all that time so maybe they disappear when you are on a program that needs screen real estate like a browser?

 

[robstunner]

The soft keys will be used, the on screen would not be present.

 

[richardpandy]

Yes ^ - from what I have read, phones with physical buttons/capacitive buttons will still use those for navigation and the on screen software "buttons" will not be visible, which makes sense. Would be stupid having the ICS on screen "buttons" and the physical ones.

 

[csimme01]

The very idea of ICS is to have one Android OS that can be scaled and tweaked to all devices. 3 inch, 7 Inch, tablet, phone, hard keys, soft ect. I am sure you wont lose any screen area to duplicate buttons. I am also sure (with the exception of blur, sense, bloatware ect) the manufactures wont have to create their own version of ICS

 

[dwaynewilliams#WN]

I may be in the minority here, but if ice cream sandwich can be implemented without using the on screen buttons, I would be hot. I would rather use capacitive buttons. This way, I would still have the search functionality throughout the operating system.

Sent from my HTC Rezound

 

[dhendriksen]

I may be in the minority here, but if ice cream sandwich can be implemented without using the on screen buttons, I would be hot. I would rather use capacitive buttons. This way, I would still have the search functionality throughout the operating system.

Sent from my HTC Rezound

I'm with you. I want those 4 buttons available to me at all times, not just when the OS thinks I should have them.

 

[dmcman73]

Google has added the ability for the device manufacture to turn on or off the ICS onscreen buttons so that A: They can use it on older phones that have buttons and B: If the manufacturer still wants to create phones with dedicated buttons.