Capacitive buttons turn software keys; cramp up the keyboard more – Part 2

The OS incorporates all the physical buttons underneath the screen, in the software. So when you see the Galaxy Nexus with the Option, Home and Return button glowing underneath the screen, don’t get fooled because they are not under the screen but a part of the screen.

Google has take the bold step of including these capacitive buttons into the fold because it will definitely save the manufacturer some space in the circuit and the software buttons are all integrated better with the applications like they rotate clockwise or anticlockwise depending on the direction, when user turns the phone from portrait mode the landscape mode, and vice versa.

However, the problem with this innovation is that not a lot of application developers agree to the ‘indoor’ buttons. It complicates the already complicated platform and the integration has to be done from program to program.

On the other hand, the typing issue still remains unsolved as the spacebar is nestled right above the home button. Now there are a number of suggestions from experts.

Some say that Google should rearrange the buttons with the Options in place of Home and Home button on left side. This way the accidental press of the button instead of spacebar will not exit the application.

Another option given by the tech gurus is a different format for the keyboards. There are a number of applications available in the market with many different options and formats of keyboards. What these experts suggest is that Google should shift the spacebar to someplace safe so that it can be used without errors. There is no hard and fast rule for the spacebar or other keys to be in the same place as the conventional keyboards are.

If Google wants its newest operating system to work and be successful, which for a number reasons it deserves, it has to work on buttons that are now a part of the software.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Apr 18 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.