Samsung made the right call: we don't need no hardware buttons

Lately, hardware buttons on smartphones have slowly been going extinct. Google pushed hard for that and has always developed its Nexus phones (now Pixels) to have a software navbar with no hardware control shenanigans.

Samsung, on the other hand, pushed hard to keep its hardware controls for years. The classic Sammy smartphone had a hardware home button in the center of its chin, with a couple of capacitive touch buttons for Recent Apps and Back neighboring it.

However, since the Galaxy S8 came out and proclaimed war on all bezels, it also turned a cold shoulder on the physical home ...