Comments on Hardware Buttons

[Airmaxx23]

I haven't used the hard "Menu", "Home", "Back" and "Search" buttons in quite a few months. I found an app called zMooth which replaces the buttons with swipe gestures.

 

[VoidedSaint]

this thread is over a year old!!!

 

[vr4]

Yes....it is. Lol

My hard buttons are showing some wear. Don't really like them now. Really preferred them when I got this phone. Still not really used to using my moms galaxy s when I do but I'll have to get used to it when I get my next phone.

 

[jpgoggin]

I like them well enough if the phone is naked. I really don't like them with my otterbox. So I use ButtonSavior.

 

[Doit2it]

...Really preferred them when I got this phone....

I'm just the opposite. I didn't like them when my DX was new. Now I hardly notice them. But the search key should have been left off. I NEVER use the search key. I've probably pressed it less than a dozen times in the past year. Really!

 

[dirkbonn]

I would have preferred capacitive buttons instead of hard buttons.... but I knew that when I bought my "X" on launch day. Being hard buttons, it is more difficult to push the buttons when my phone is in the car dock. Minor issue for me.

Now my next phone......

 

[Hrethgir]

I like the hard buttons, keeps me from accidentally hitting them when doing something like playing a game or on the web.

 

[Lunacy]

Still new to the physical buttons so I'm not sure yet. I would never give up my physical camera button though.

 

[notaguru]

I use the POWER or HOME buttons to turn on the device, and that's about all.

Zmooth provides a right-thumb swipe for RETURN, HOME, and MENU (never got OFF to work). I use Circle Launcher to create two barely visible spots on the Home screen; one evokes a 10-contact circle, the other a 10-app circle. That covers 90% of who I call and what I do. For OFF, one of those apps is ScreenOffX.

Works for me, and I need a hardware button rarely.

 

[bigbadwulff]

The search button is a waste of hardware.

 

[bouchigo]

The search button is a waste of hardware.

It sure is, I never use it.

 

[stereoeclectic]

i like them. probably will be gone on future phones, though.

 

[Deleted User]

The hard buttons is one reason I upgraded from the Incredible. I kept hitting those soft buttons by mistake and backing out of whatever I was doing. I have no problem with the DroidX implementation.

Yep. Love the HW buttons.
Now going to the Nexus with no buttons will be strange.

 

[ewoking]

Hardware buttons lead to easy access for thieves.