Hmm... am I the only one that liked the magazine?
Anyway, Samsung must be under pressure from Google to remove those hardware buttons. Somehow I feel the Android team is going from bad to worse. The main reason why I'm still using Samsung devices is because they still have hardware buttons for home, back and menu, unlike almost all other manufacturers. Google should leave good enough alone. And don't get me started on the stupid security "enhancements" that they made to SD card access. First they removed our ability to install/move apps onto external SD cards. Then they removed our ability to write to our own SDcards with ordinary file explorers. What's next? No more SDcard support? Don't know what those geniuses are thinking back in Google.
The hardware buttons are the reason why i'm not buying Samsung phones anymore.
it's so "not android" and "low tech". Everyone else is using software buttons already, LG, Sony, Motorola, HTC, everyone except Samsung.
as for the SD card access, Google’s Android does not like external storage, even when it’s your internal SD Card – it never has. Possibly out of simplicity, after all, it is much easier to control the file structure in one place, especially when it comes to removing an application – those pesky files all need to be removed for a nice clean uninstall.
Google said in their documentation that this was done to ensure “the system can clean up files when applications are uninstalled.” The important thing to realize here is that Google is saying that when an application is uninstalled, any information written in its private folder will be erased.
