Old back button on the HTC One M8
I noticed that HTC still has their old back button on the first screenshot of the HTC Zoe app. I'm wondering why they decided to change it. At least to me, their old back button makes the interface look so much better.
Posted Mar 28, 2014, 1:32 AM UTC
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Because the old back button makes no sense among the other two. The Sense buttons are essentially a rounder, condensed interpretation of the stock AOSP ones. The old Sense back button looks nothing like the standard navigation, so it looks less consistent. It's like the difference of the letters "a b c" in Helvetica Neue and Roboto Slab: they're different glyphs representing the same letter which has the same meaning, but are stylistically different. The old HTC back would be if "a" was represented with "P", but had the same meaning.
What makes more sense, having "a b c" in a different font, or "P b c"? I personally prefer the standard navigation glyphs anyway, but the final Sense ones work well together and are stylistically consistent. At the very least, the buttons are more familiar to those that have not previously owned HTC devices.