Rumors affirm expectations of radically changed bottom of iPhone 7

The next iPhone is coming up fast and depending on whether or not you’re itching for the Plus model, you’re looking at some interesting bottom parts for this “7” or “6SE“. But besides Schrodinger’s Smart Connector pins, ...

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The rear-facing buttons are the worst part of the LG G3

Back when I owned my very first smartphone, I never paid any attention to the placement of any of the buttons or ports. But that quickly changed as the smartphone itself evolved and as I noticed how different button and port configurations affected how I used each device.On the Moto Q, the call and end buttons were exactly where you would expect them to be – on the face of the device, flanking a d-pad in the center. The end key doubled as the power key. There was no manual standby function we now associate with the power key.The Curve 8330 I later owned, however, did have this function. ...

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Loving edge-to-edge screens? Get used to buttons on the back

We’ve been begging for it for quite some time: screens that span the entire front of our phones. The hated “bezel” used to be a place where we could hold on to our devices without accidentally touching the screen, and there was a point in time when the bezel was a necessary component to actually hold our screens in place, with the screen and digitizer both recessed behind it. Fast-forward to today and our phones have a single slab of glass that occupies most of the front of the device. The bezel is now an area of black around the screen that taunts us. We want that area ...

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