I could accept buttonlessness but I see a few issues
1. It will make rugged cases hard to do, probably involving conductive rubber, and extra types of materials add cost. I guess they'll have to have a cutout, and sticking your finger in the touchy side hole might be not be as nice as the designers who probably think caseless phones are a sane idea want it to be.
2. Holding real power buttons for is how you hard power cycle things.
1 can be fixed if people just kind of get used to a shallow hole as the new definition of a button, 2 can't really be fixed unless you want water to accidentally reboot your phone, or your sensing is really amazing.
If they make the sensing good enough, and case designers make it work without compromising ruggedness, I'm fine with it, as long as the implementation is good by the time it comes for us Androiders. But i don't see how unless you're doing some kind of optical sensing or something.
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I could accept buttonlessness but I see a few issues
1. It will make rugged cases hard to do, probably involving conductive rubber, and extra types of materials add cost. I guess they'll have to have a cutout, and sticking your finger in the touchy side hole might be not be as nice as the designers who probably think caseless phones are a sane idea want it to be.
2. Holding real power buttons for is how you hard power cycle things.
1 can be fixed if people just kind of get used to a shallow hole as the new definition of a button, 2 can't really be fixed unless you want water to accidentally reboot your phone, or your sensing is really amazing.
If they make the sensing good enough, and case designers make it work without compromising ruggedness, I'm fine with it, as long as the implementation is good by the time it comes for us Androiders. But i don't see how unless you're doing some kind of optical sensing or something.