Buttons are one of the most ephemeral parts of modern technology. A text file from a decade ago will still load the same, a dead console’s games can live on in emulators, and as the adage goes, ...

On Wednesday, Apple officially revealed the iPhone 16e, the spiritual successor to the iPhone SE. While the second and third-generation SEs borrowed from the design language of the iPhone 8, this new ...

When the original iPhone was unveiled in January 2007, Steve Jobs introduced its signature home button with a succinct pitch: “It takes you home from wherever you are. And that’s it.” Such a simple ...

Sometimes, it can be hard to believe that it has already been more than 15 years since the first iPhone was launched. At the time, it was a pioneering device that changed the game for smartphone ...

It may sound impossible to imagine an iPhone without a home button. But in some ways, Apple has been preparing users for this eventuality for years. I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now ...

Physical home buttons are all but extinct on modern smartphones, and the Palm Pre ended them. It’s not hard to notice that smartphones have steadily shed their buttons throughout the years: keyboards, ...

A change to the iPhone’s Home button was long-rumored, but when Phil Schiller confirmed the existence of the iPhone 7’s solid state Home button, that’s when you knew it was for real. The iPhone 7 ...

Apple’s introduced the latest of it’s line up of iPhones with no Home button. The iPhone 12 series joins the iPhone 11 series, and the iPhone XR, XS and X with a full screen front and Face ID. But ...

Today the Samsung Galaxy S7 reached the point at which it will likely no longer receive new software updates. The device was first released in March of 2016, as a machine that'd ultimately be ...

Apple took to the stage at an event at the beginning of September and proudly showcased the latest in the iPhone series, the headphone jack-less, waterproof iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. However, it isn ...