I fucking love this about Chrome. It's genius.
its a PITA when I'm on a laptop though and I accidentally tap too hard on my touchpad... hahaha but I like the thought they put in. I usually use CTRL+F4 on a desktop keyboard so this doesn't matter as much, but it's good to know they designed this well.
Yesterday I got my S3, which replaced my defective Nexus. I can now say that I definitely prefer the soft keys. I've only had this phone one day and I constantly hit the back key by mistake because it's so close to the edge of the phone that there's no where to comfortably hold on that side. Also I really dislike the bloatware filling up the notification area. I like that Samsung put those toggles in for people, but not having the option to remove it is just plain stupid, and the always there wifi prompt/message is even worse.
Well I commented on the design issues of the S3, and part of it is because its too curvey and the lower bezel is very minimal. You can tell it's crammed in there and the home button feels very short because there's no space. If they went back to the more square-ish button on the S2 and S1 and a larger bottom bezel the phone would be too large. It's more visually pleasing that way as well.
It may just be because the phone is too big or too little bezel that you keep hitting the back button. Like I said, there are some disadvantages to large phones and to minimal bezel, yet mock images always show some giant screen with 0.1mm bezel all the way around. Yeah not sexy and realistic at all.
I do like the notification toggles, but more minimalistic like CyanogenMod. Even the AOKP ones are a little cluttered/excessive for my taste. The Samsung ones are just flat out ugly (from my gf's S3). But I cannot live with stock AOSP that does not have the toggles.
I've kind of been up and down this whole thread and this is kind of what I agree with. When I was 23 I would spend hours flashing roms and trying to pimp my WinMo devices as much as I could. I'm a grown ass man now. I don't want to spend more than 5 minutes thinking about how my phone looks. I want it to be functional and intuitive out of the box. iOS does that for me. Android doesn't.
The only thing I'll even spend any time on these days is jail breaking and installing BiteSMS because quick reply is awesome. I've tried ChompSMS and it's amazing to me how a similar app from the same developer can just be so terribly broken.
And if anyone is looking for a unlocked HSPA Galaxy Nexus next week, and PM me.
Right. I don't mind a quick fix. It's just a PITA when root is different for every phone (I've rooted the Milestone, SGS1, SGS2, SGS3, Nexus S, and Incredible S and they're all vastly different). Yeah. I understand the argument. No one should spend hours trying to make their phone work. It's one thing if you have some extreme preferences and want bells and whistles on your phone, then you probably need a lot of time, but for those looking for decent functionality, it shouldn't be some treasure hunt.
Luckily ICS addresses this issue and post iOS 4 does too. JBing/rooting might still be useful for things like tethering but other than that yeah... Basically my gripe with Android before was that with its crap keyboard, crap SMS app, crap exchange app, crap launcher (pre ICS), I'm spending all my time setting up the phone. I'm not asking for 5 star products. Just good enough stock apps that there isn't this immediate need to get a 3rd party alternative.
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