I just saw this iPhone 8 concept made by Thadeu Brandão, and I have to say I’m intrigued. The phone looks almost exactly like the iPhone 7 from the back, but in front there’s one of those bezel-less screens I’ve been dreaming about. To make room for all that LCD (or OLED?), Thadeu moved the earpiece up to nearly the top of the phone, but left the home button indent exactly where it is on existing iPhones. And then, instead of just pretending like the button isn’t there, the concept video shows a bunch of different imaginative UIs which utilize the button and the bottom part of the screen a little bit like the MacBook Touch Bar.

This got me thinking: is this a good idea? Right now the iPhone home button already has a lot of tasks. You…

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