A home button with a display

#1

Post by wietsehage » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 3:33 PM UTC

A home button with a display
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Re: A home button with a display

#2

Post by kirillzubovsky » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:08 PM UTC

Interesting idea, but what would they display on this button?

It a way, this is such an old technology. Remember the old flip phones with a secondary screen on the front, displaying time and showing you number of new text messages? Maybe something like this, but then again, why?

Re: A home button with a display

#3

Post by wietsehage » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 5:06 PM UTC

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #2

Interesting idea, but what would they display on this button? It a way, this is such an old technology. Remember the old flip phones with a secondary screen on the front, displaying time and showing you number of new text messages? Maybe something like this, but then again, why?

If it where a small high resolution oled display (32x32) they could show an app icon for when attention is needed for this specific app. You could have a little Facebook icon slowly fading in and out as an extension tot the notification center.

Re: A home button with a display

#4

Post by kirillzubovsky » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 3:32 AM UTC

wietsehage wrote: post #3

kirillzubovsky wrote: post #2

Interesting idea, but what would they display on this button? It a way, this is such an old technology. Remember the old flip phones with a secondary screen on the front, displaying time and showing you number of new text messages? Maybe something like this, but then again, why?

If it where a small high resolution oled display (32x32) they could show an app icon for when attention is needed for this specific app. You could have a little Facebook icon slowly fading in and out as an extension tot the notification center.

Interesting, I guess they could, although personally I'd disable that feature immediately.