Why get rid of the physical home button though?

[AC Question]

I honestly like being able to identify a Samsung phone from a far, just by seeing that button

 

[jasonandrews25788]

to have more space for the display and apply the concept of Bezeless phone with higher screen to body ratio.

 

[Aquila]

It was an unsightly blemish on the face of their flagship, masking a deep seated flaw in Samsung's device philosophy that has, at long last, been rectified.