My guess it would be similar to video playback. Touching the very bottom area of the screen would invoke the buttons menu and they disappear after a delay.
If you're playing Angry Birds, how do you get out ASAP? You know, like when you're at work and you need to hit the Home button fast so your boss doesn't know you're not paying attention at a meeting?
Yes you may be right there's some gesture or whatever we have to do to invoke the menu, but when something's full screen like a video, how do you get the navigation buttons to come out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvsXyeY0HVEAren't the buttons there all the time?
I'd certainly hope that only video apps (where touching anywhere would bring up the buttons) would have access to hide the soft buttons.
It's likely that the companies decided to postpone as a mark of respect to rival Steve Jobs, who passed away earlier this week.
Man. The Galaxy Nexus really has me thinking about cancelling my Sprint service, selling my brand new Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch, and going to VZW for this monster. What an amazing device.
I just hope I can put those buttons back in the proper order (menu first!).
I thought about that but is it really worth it? Screen size is about the same, the CPU is slightly slower. Beyond NFC and higher res, what is the point? You end up /w higher pricing for a pretty similar phone. I actually am happy it doesn't have more as these specs helped me go hmm ok thats not that huge and I can live /w my E4GT until the next "big" release which will probably be quad core.
Tell me this is a joke. For all they they may have been buddies, Apple is and has been playing for keeps. (Ask Samsung.) If this is true and actually pushes back the launch date I and a lot of Verizon customers will be furious.are you kidding me?
Tell me this is a joke. For all they they may have been buddies, Apple is and has been playing for keeps. (Ask Samsung.) If this is true and actually pushes back the launch date I and a lot of Verizon customers will be furious.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...s-a-good-look-at-polished-ice-cream-sandwich/
More screenshots as well as boot animation. I like it.
I thought about that but is it really worth it? Screen size is about the same, the CPU is slightly slower. Beyond NFC and higher res, what is the point? You end up /w higher pricing for a pretty similar phone. I actually am happy it doesn't have more as these specs helped me go hmm ok thats not that huge and I can live /w my E4GT until the next "big" release which will probably be quad core.
My guess it would be similar to video playback. Touching the very bottom area of the screen would invoke the buttons menu and they disappear after a delay.
Well, this at least gives the option of having the buttons gone for video playback while still being there for games thus solving both problems.in video playback that's fine, but in gaming that makes that part of the screen useless. in essence this goes back to the question, why not just have buttons in the first place if the bottom of the screen is reserved to bring the menu up.
Sure you get to enjoy more screen real-estate visually, but you can't use it with your fingers. I dunno. Plus the demo of the Nexus showed the guy having problems pressing those buttons as well..
Feh. I don't buy the 'mark of respect for Steve Jobs' line one bit.
I'd bet it's more like they originally rushed the announcement date as much as they could get away with because they thought they'd be announcing an answer to an iPhone5 or something.
Now it's like, "Why are we rushing to compete with a updated iPhone 4? Screw it. Let's actually work all the kinks out first and then announce it when it's actually ready."
First thing that popped into my head too.
I'm also guessing that VZW & ATT want to milk the 4s sales for a couple weeks before they announce better hardware.
And they should've known this. Everyone knows Apple was due for a launch in the fall. The invites came out after everyone knew Apple's announcement date. And it doesn't take rocket science to figure out Apple usually gives like a 1-2 week heads up before the actual release, so Google/Samsung knew EXACTLY what they were getting themselves into when they penciled in October 11th. I'd be very disappointed if they flaked out on us, but the rest of the tech world won't give a rat's ass because who really cares about Android announcements anyway? Only Apple announcements people follow minute by minute with live blogs and videos and twitter and Facebook feeds all clogged up....
wouldnt steve want us to be using the best and most up-to-date btechnology?
Pretty sure Google and Samsung had no way of predicting that Steve was die when they booked their event. If Jobs was still around, the event would go ahead as planned. They didn't want to have to compete with the media over funeral arrangements either.