But the makers of the K1000D did an excellent job mimicking the form-factor of the Nexus S. The buttons look basically identical, and the back-panel has a textured feel to it that prevents fingerprints, much like the Nexus S. The K1000D also sports an external antenna, which the Nexus S keeps tucked away on the inside.
The road back to profit and success, the company argues, now will come from new software for smartphones, called Nexus, featuring the Infinite Button.
Also in that game, it drives me insane when I swipe my finger across the screen and hit the soft home button on the Nexus S, dumping me out of the app.
It's the closest yet to the iPhone in terms of sleekness, but whereas the iPhone is almost one smooth surface except for the one button indent, the Nexus One has a face that is broken up by its frame and the silly trackball that Google keeps insisting manufacturers include.
(Of course, the Galaxy Nexus still has a wake/power button of the right side).
In the increasingly competitive tablet wars, Amazon may have successfully differentiated itself from the other tablets -- namely those from the big players like Apple, Samsung and Asus (the manufacturer of Google's new Nexus 7) with the Mayday button.
- Home, back, menu and search buttons being moved onto the touchscreen, especially important as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has no physical hardware buttons.
The Nexus one has four functional touch buttons at the bottom of the screen (back, menu, home, search) and a navigation trackball pointing device.
Unlike pretty much every other Android manufacturer (including Google's Nexus models), Samsung chooses to put the menu button on the left and the back button on the right.
Instead of the one button that the iPhone employs, the Nexus One sticks with the standard 4-button (not including the scroll ball) Android approach.
