Why doesn't Google move all the interactive stuff to the bottom in the screen? Pull up for notifications, menu bottoms placed at the bottom. Settings tabs placed at the bottom. Basically, anything we can interact with/button press/gestures etc. be placed at the bottom. With phone trends going in the direction of larger screens with smaller bezels, it seems more practical for one handed use.
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Do you think this is a good idea? A slider phone. It has a top screen and a bottom screen.
1) Both screens are touch screens.
2) Bottom screen only displays virtual keyboards, menus, and settings
3) When the top screen is slide out, the bottom screen is active.
4) When the bottom screen is active, the menus and buttons will migrate from top screen to bottom.
5) When the menus and buttons migrate from top to bottom, you can see more on your top screen (when browsing web and when watching movies, etc).
6) You can change settings and do stuff without having to switch from full screen to normal screen (because of the bottom screen), and without having to pause or without having to have the menus and buttons to appear on the top screen.
I just got Honeycomb tablet and confused about new launcher. While I go the basic I still don't understand how can I place widgets and schortcuts on the edge of the screen. Seems to me once I move shortcut to the edge it assumes that I need to move it to next screen. With this setup I'm loosing both left and right probably 20% of real estate on the screen (impossible to use those areas on the screen).
Yes, the stock HC launcher does cut off a column on both left and right sides, which does allow you to click on either side to switch pages (which can be nice for holding in both hands) but it does cut down screen real estate.
You can use any number of launchers (ADW, Launcher Pro) that allow you the extra sides to add app shortcuts/widgets.
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artisticcheese said:
I just got Honeycomb tablet and confused about new launcher. While I go the basic I still don't understand how can I place widgets and schortcuts on the edge of the screen. Seems to me once I move shortcut to the edge it assumes that I need to move it to next screen. With this setup I'm loosing both left and right probably 20% of real estate on the screen (impossible to use those areas on the screen).
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Dont go so far to the edge
Hello XDA-ers.
I have a Moto Atrix MB860 and I can never really find a comfortable way to hold the phone which allows me to single-handedly thumb navigate and type like I could on my old HTC Vogue. I think the issue (and it's the same for most of the candy-bar smartphones) is that the menu buttons and keyboard live at the bottom of the screen, which occupies most of the phone's length. When I grip the phone high enough so that it's not at risk of falling out of my hand, my thumb can't comfortably reach down to the bottom of the screen. If I turn the phone upside down - so the business end is near my fingers instead of the heel of my hand - I can reach the menu buttons AND the soft keyboard quite easily. The only problems with this are that everything is upside-down on the screen and the hard buttons, etc. are in the wrong place. Does anyone know of an alternate keyboard, or a way to configure an existing keyboard so that it lives at the top of the screen instead of the bottom? I can't imagine that there isn't a single implementation either by a third-party or by a handset manufacturer.
Thanks.
So I've gotten used to the swipe up gestures for the navigation bar over my past few phones but going to the fold 2, on the big screen, the swipe gestures are too far apart for convenience. I see that there is an option for the traditional nav buttons to be offset to the right or left but i don't see an option for swipe gestures to be offset to the right or left. Is this even possible? Either within the Samsung settings or even a third party app?
The swipe gestures are new to me... never used them on my last phone (Note 8). I'm getting used to it on the small and large screens. I thought about switching back to include the buttons, but then it takes some of the video away which I think defeats the purpose of spending all this money on a phone with a large screen.
It's quite a bit easier if you go into the navigation options and switch to the gestures where you swipe from the side for back and bottom for home. When you do that anywhere up on the bottom will take you home so you can make both gestures in the lower right or left corner of the screen.
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It's quite a bit easier if you go into the navigation options and switch to the gestures where you swipe from the side for back and bottom for home. When you do that anywhere up on the bottom will take you home so you can make both gestures in the lower right or left corner of the screen.
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Thanks. I've been using this method. Although not my preference is the best option so far. I appreciate the recommendation.
It would be nice if they'd let us fiddle with the placement and type of nav gestures, it's true about any phone but I think more so with this one due to the form factor.
I prefer having my clock on the right side of the top bar. Doing that, all my status icons are pushed towards the center. I usually have enough of them that one gets obscured by the hole punch (on outside and inside display, in portrait mode). Usually it's the alarm or bluetooth icon that gets hidden. The hole punch is in the exact right position and size to perfectly hide an entire icon.
Is there a way for the icons to 'skip' the hole punch? Maybe a way to add an extra icon that will always appear on the 4th position, only in portrait mode?
I expect this issue to have come up on other phones as well (S20?), but this is my first phone with a center hole punch camera.