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Originally Posted by Dave_S
I thought that all Android devices also had a physical "Home" button? My HTC Desire has one and I have seen multiple mentions of the physical "Home" button on Android forums.
Anyway, I have had a chance to see it's usefulness on some of the early CoolReader 3 for Android releases. Some of those early versions of CoolReader would hang on opening a book, and the touch screen controls would become unresponsive. I just had to tap the physical "Home" button to get back the central window and then use Advanced Task Manager to kill the runaway CoolReader 3 application.
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My HTC EVO 4G has exactly two hardware buttons, (well, three if you count the volume up/down as two); the on/off button and the volume rocker. The four standard Android buttons (Home, Menu, Return, and Search) are off screen and in a fixed location, but still capacitive touch screen type buttons rather than hardware click-click ones. All other buttons are on screen "soft" buttons. Any app that would hang and cause those to be non-responsive would be unacceptable.
Sometimes I would like to also have a camera button, but am happy to forego that in order to have this awesome phone.