The iPhone 8 could be presented on September 12. The new Apple smartphone will have a new design, similar to that of the Xiaomi Mi MIX, with a screen without bezels. The iPhone 8 would end up with the Home button. However, can Android do without the Home button on smartphones?
An iPhone 8 without a Home button
The iPhone 8 will not be a very innovative smartphone, because in reality it is only going to recover all the innovation that has come in many smartphones so far. The iPhone 8 is the iPhone that should have been presented in 2016. However, in any case, the truth is that the iPhone 8 will be presented as the best mobile that has been presented so far. One of the novelties of the iPhone 8 will be that the Home button will not be included. There are also mobiles without a Home button, right?
However, in reality there are no Android phones without a Home button, because phones do have virtualized buttons on the screen. In the case of the iPhone 8, it simply would not have buttons, but the functions that until now existed for the Home button, which the truth is that there were not many, will be integrated into the screen itself. Currently, the Home button on the iPhone does not have many functions: go to the main menu, go to multitasking, activate Siri, or activate the one-handed use mode.
However, Apple will no longer have a Home button. And it seems obvious that he will present it as a novelty. Well, on Android, even though the buttons have been virtualized on the screen for a long time, they are still buttons.
Could the buttons be removed on Android? Maybe yes. In the future. But of course, it would have to be Google who removed the buttons from the operating system. It would be good progress, since the buttons on the screen could be removed, and then it would be a screen without bezels, not even virtual ones.
However, now an iPhone 8 without a Home button will arrive. And we will see if it is not presented as a novelty of the iPhone 8, and an innovation.
“Well, on Android, even though the buttons have been virtualized on the screen a long time ago, they are still buttons. Could the buttons be removed on Android? Maybe yes. In the future. »
Let's see, first, in Android the HOME button is not necessary at all, but manufacturers like Samsung put it in because people who came from IOS found it easier to adapt, but come on ... Google has not released any mobile with a button never physical ... in the first NEXUS it was a touch button inside the terminal buttons or inside the screen in the most modern mobiles, not a physical button.
As far as they are going to remove the button, Apple refers only to the physical part of the button, not the functionality that they will end up putting in a button on the screen.
On the other hand, saying that there are buttons on android even if they are on the screen and implying that IOs will be the first to remove them then is a bit of a laugh.
In android, the buttons are for the terminal's own navigation (for example, the back button) and that is why the apps do not have to put it (in fact it is not recommended to Iphonize the apps in that way since there is a button for it). In Android the "back" button is at the bottom and is typical of the terminal. In IOs there will continue to be a back button within the apps just like there is in Android, only they will continue to make it specific for each app. You cannot ask to remove that button / functionality, neither in IOS nor in Android.
And finally, that IOS removes the button from the terminal does not mean that they are going to remove that functionality, it is just that they are going to include it on the screen in some way, including the fingerprint sensor, and all the functionalities of that button, Let's go, as I see that 80% of IOS users already do, who end up putting the floating button according to them because "it is easier to press" and above all SO THAT THE PHYSICAL BUTTON IS NOT BROKEN, which is quite delicate and more than one is it has cracked him.
Be that as it may, that the Iphone continue to have a physical button underneath is something obsolete and a shame for Apple, really, especially because of the failures that having moving parts can give and on top of that it forces them to have the largest cell phones on the market because Apple In its design principles, it wants its cell phones to be totally symmetrical, so in an iPhone, the upper part of the frame is exaggeratedly gigantic, because they have to make it as big as the lower part where that horrendous button goes.
Regardless, I applaud Apple's decision to remove that button. It is a good step forward THAT GOOGLE GAVE FROM DAY 2 on Android. xDDDDD