Friday, 28 April 2017

The Galaxy S8’s home button moves, and there’s a good reason for it

One of the biggest changes to Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is the removal of the physical home button — a decision made in order to squeeze as much screen as possible onto the front of the phone. But S8 owners have noticed something very unexpected about the device’s new pressure-sensitive software button. It moves.

This movement isn’t particularly noticeable on a day-to-day basis, but if you stick something onto the phone’s screen as a reference point, you can clearly see the button shift back and forth, ever so slightly. These photos via Dutch site GalaxyClub show it more clearly:

But why is this happening?

The best explanation (and one that’s been sort-of-confirmed by the Samsung Netherlands official Twitter account) is that the home button...

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from
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/4/28/15467302/samsung-galaxy-s8-home-button-moves-screen-burn-in

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-galaxy-s8s-home-button-moves-and.html

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