Why Two Buttons?

[KneeDragr]

Anyone know? Why not just stick a third button there? There has to be some engineering reason.

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[SenseMonkey]

Maybe it looks cooler? lol. I still think my 3 buttons on my evo lte look cool but 2 looks cool too.

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[frellingfrakker]

Who knows? I personally think it was a really bad decision, especially with the delays in getting the phone out. When Joe Schmo goes into the Sprint/ATT/etc. store he'll pick up the S4 and intuitively be able to use it if he's had a smart phone before. He'll pick up the One and be confused by the lack of a menu button and why that "HTC button" doesn't work. . .

 

[Gabriel Gimenes]

android is deleting the back button ; )

 

[warpdrive]

I hear Google no longer supports the home button anymore.

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[calvin35]

They did it to be different. Same reason they do most things.

 

[americasteam]

They did it to be different. Same reason they do most things.

Exactly, and to me it's a really bad decision. Same as the lack of a hardware menu button.

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[homanh]

They're conforming to google's phasing out of the menu button and moving it to the application layer:

Google Phasing Out the Android Menu Button

Its actually a step forward and future proofing it.

 

[anon(21022)]

on my One X, before HTC added the option to turn the multitasking button into a menu button, the following would often occur:

wanting to show something cool to a friend, hand the phone over, they accidentally hit the multitask button and panic and hand the phone back to me...

even when asking others to take a pic!

that's the only reason I can come up with, maybe HTC had so many metrics showing this that they decided to remove it altogether?

 

[Phil Kulak]

They built the _worst_ multi-tasking screen in history (that stupid cover-flow-like thing where you could see maybe 2 apps on the screen at once), then when no one used it they yanked the multi-taking button because they had data that people don't use the button. Well, people don't use it when you ruin it. Now it looks like Sense 5 has a pretty nice multi-tasking window, but they've yanked the button, so too bad, I guess.

 

[return_0]

They're conforming to google's phasing out of the menu button and moving it to the application layer:

Google Phasing Out the Android Menu Button

Its actually a step forward and future proofing it.

No, they're moving backwards by removing the multitasking button.

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