Samsung Galaxy S III to have a home button, 5-column UI

10 April, 2012
Samsung has decided to keep the hardware home button on the Galaxy S III and go with a Note-like UI.

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  • bolblizt
  • Ui{
  • 11 Apr 2012

Samsung Galaxy is just another iPhone inspired design.

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    • Anonymous
    • TfX
    • 11 Apr 2012

    In a few months I'm gonna make a choice between the S3 and HTC's One X.But then again if the S3 comes out with a 2gb RAM, then S3 it is!

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      • Anonymous
      • TfX
      • 11 Apr 2012

      Trash cans R lovely, 10 Apr 2012I'd rather like it if it would be virtual. I've had two pho... moreI think you're lucky that the phones even worked AT ALL considering it's not supposed to be submerged underwater.

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        • Anonymous
        • nId
        • 11 Apr 2012

        Anonymous, 10 Apr 2012The home button is the one which pulls you out of the app/t... moreIndeed, Home should NEVER be capacitive. Capacitive buttons just mean that you keep exiting games because you accidentally touch the home button. Some games also use menu and back too, so I personally think that making ALL buttons real hardware buttons is best.

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          • Anonymous
          • 9yk
          • 11 Apr 2012

          whatever number of icon and home button...samsung should give us portable charger for extra battery

          their battery usually suck

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            • Anonymous
            • 3pr
            • 11 Apr 2012

            Amazing looks! It just looks like the Samsung Galaxy S2... and Galaxy S...
            LOL, now seriously, very dull design and I bet the SGSIV will look just like this one too
            Guys, what is the point of having a new smartphone, specially if you trade it in every year, if it just looks exactly like your previous?
            When I get a new phone I want it to look new.
            But then again, if I wanted a fresh design... I would not look for it on a Samsung

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              • AnonD-9017
              • 3pr
              • 11 Apr 2012

              Waw!So the big news is that the SGSIII has 5 icons? LOL
              people... my Arc always had 5 of them on the home screen and the Ios also so what else is new and exciting?

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                • ArcUser
                • 3pr
                • 11 Apr 2012

                David, 10 Apr 2012hahaha... are you serious? Sony (ex-Sony Ericsson) Xperia p... moreYes, you are right.
                My Arc has 5 icons on the home screen so there is nothing new about this.... as if anything new, innovative and exciting would ever come from Samsung.
                About having 5 columns of icons on the layout I think is a bit more confusing

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                  • Anonymous
                  • nyT
                  • 11 Apr 2012

                  There's rumors the samsung galaxy S III will have a pop-out cheese grater and cork-screw. It will also have an 8 core cpu and a 1080p display.

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                    • AnonD-10979
                    • xy8
                    • 11 Apr 2012

                    AnonD-47382, 10 Apr 201210 inch screen ...10 GB RAM ...Android 10 Popeye Spinach...... moreha ha ha Popeye Spinach .....awesome name....they should consider this.

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                      • DAVE the BRAVE
                      • pJg
                      • 10 Apr 2012

                      People complain about HTC but WOW, is Samsung boring! And don't get me started on TouchWiz. Sense might be bloat but at least it looks good and is consistent.

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                        • GS3
                        • 49x
                        • 10 Apr 2012

                        I think galaxy S3 will kick all phones. U never know.

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                          • AnonD-8044
                          • mX0
                          • 10 Apr 2012

                          AnonD-5197, 10 Apr 2012I prefer the home button over the 4 capacitive buttons beca... moreFully agree about tactile buttons and waking the device,,that my main usage waking the device its superb solution.

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                            • David
                            • TuF
                            • 10 Apr 2012

                            hahaha... are you serious? Sony (ex-Sony Ericsson) Xperia phones have had home buttons and 5-column UI's... what's new about this?

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                              • nik
                              • 3GT
                              • 10 Apr 2012

                              the nexus looks so cool with a button-less front face, cant believe they're not bring it over to the SIII!!!

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                                • AnonD-5197
                                • qbY
                                • 10 Apr 2012

                                I prefer the home button over the 4 capacitive buttons because you can feel it and press it without missing it. I also find it more convenient to wake the device up with the home button than the lock/power button. Keeping the home button is a good thing in my opinion.

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                                  • Trash cans R lovely
                                  • p33
                                  • 10 Apr 2012

                                  Bohannon67, 10 Apr 2012Judging by the comments so far, it shows everyone looks to ... moreI'd rather like it if it would be virtual. I've had two phones (SGS and SGS+) literally soaked underwater. When I took them out, guess what happened. Both were perfectly fine, EXCEPT for the home buttons. SGS+ home button was barely working, had to press it very hard to work and SGS' home button completely stopped functioning. Almost everything is sealed on the phones, so if all the buttons would be virtual, nothing would have happened. I mean, what's wrong with virtual buttons? Nothing ever happened to back and.menu buttons to me and it's more pleasurable to touch them than pressing the home. :D

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                                    • AnonD-5197
                                    • qbY
                                    • 10 Apr 2012

                                    Anonymous, 10 Apr 2012I certainly hope that ASUS will kick Samsung's a** with the... moreWhy can't people hope for something more useful now days?

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                                      • DAVe^^
                                      • iIR
                                      • 10 Apr 2012

                                      All the samsung threads just get trolled by haters, i dont own one my self but god please fill these pages with something interesting haters

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                                        • come on!!!
                                        • L1i
                                        • 10 Apr 2012

                                        Wake up,Samsung and do it something new innovation,intuition...!.