The physical home button has been the focus of current affairs in the field of smart phones for several months. Before the launch of the iPhone 4S, and when it was believed that it would be the iPhone 5, there was already talk of the possibility of dispensing with this point to opt for a one hundred percent tactile surface, or having a key that allows interaction using gestural commands.
This recurrence has also carried over to the Samsung Galaxy S3. The new high-end phone from South Korean Samsung will work with the native Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich system, a platform that, among other issues related to platform management, dispenses with physical buttons for its operation.
However, according to the latest rumors that have been known about this terminal, the new Samsung Galaxy S3 will not ignore the presence of the central start key that has been installed in all the terminals of the family. It was the Asian publication Korean Digital Daily that has highlighted the intention of the manufacturer to maintain the presence of the classic mechanical button.
Thus, the Samsung Galaxy S3 would be the first mobile designed to work with Android 4.0 that integrates a front key to control the system, while the rest of the devices use capacitive buttons or, directly, dimensions in the lower strip of the touch screen.
In this way, the Samsung Galaxy S3 would satisfy a good group of users who, despite the significant penetration of touch technology in the field of telephony, have not yet completely shed the need to control some functions of the terminal using buttons. traditional.
With this, it remains to be seen how Samsung solves the management of the system, designed to operate with the aforementioned capacitive buttons. In this sense, the installation of the native layer of the South Korean firm, TouchWiz, installed on Android and Bada mobiles developed by this manufacturer, will have a lot to do with it.
Using the aforementioned interface, Samsung could respond to the operation of the system by integrating the central start button, which would presumably be guarded by a pair of capacitive keys on each side "" as in the two previous editions of the Samsung Galaxy S "", with which that, for practical purposes, the triad of controls of the rest of Android 4.0 devices would be repeated.
On the other hand, and since we are talking about the TouchWiz layer, since the aforementioned Korean publication they have also alluded to the distribution of elements that this interface will display on the Samsung Galaxy S3. Thus, as we have seen in the Samsung Galaxy Note, the new flagship of the Asian company would opt for a grid designed in five columns, compared to the four columns that have been presented in most of the mobile phones in the Galaxy range. The doubt before this would lie in knowing if the management of the interface would allow the user to change the configuration to distribute the icons in four columnscompared to the five that from Korean Digital Daily maintain that they will be predefined.
