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Android TV and Google TV devices let you remap silly streaming buttons like Netflix to open other apps, but they're not worth ...
The first Android phones had physical buttons below the screen for home, back, menu, and search functions. More recent phones and tablets are button-free, but feature on-screen buttons which move when ...
The past few Android N Developer Previews haven’t exactly introduced anything too different, feature-wise or design-wise, but that may be because Google is saving the best for last: The new flavor of ...
While gesture-based navigation is the more fluid and intuitive solution for interfacing with phones and tablets, I have a soft spot for Android's traditional three-button navigation setup. The ...
Future Android phones may be button-less monoliths, according to a Google spokesperson. Google could ditch the requirement for the traditional Android buttons -- home ...
There’s a trend among Android phone makers that I’ve seen reach its apotheosis at this year’s Mobile World Congress. The capacitive touch buttons that have been a signature of Android devices for many ...
It’s been a few months since I started using Android’s take on gesture navigation, having enabled it on my Pixel 2 XL smartphone as a beta feature back in May. Now that the feature is out of beta ...
Smartphones might be hurtling towards a port-less, button-less future, but if there’s one button that remains a constant (for now), it is the humble power button. But what purpose it serves seems to ...