No Home button on the iPhone and iPad? This is why it is not likely ...

In these hours we are talking a lot about the possibility of a new iPhone and a new iPad without the Home key, whose functions would be replaced by multi-touch gesture already on the tablet with the new Apple firmware 4.3. But because this will be difficult to happen?



The reasons are varied, but all important, such as to suggest that a choice like this, if not impossible, it is highly unlikely. Without the Home button will, in fact, several consequences:

* Can not use many features of the iPhone with one hand (to close an application, we would need special gesture for example);
* Inability to launch Voice Control, which now enables holding the Home button for a few seconds
* Difficulties for people without disabilities
* Inability to perform a forced restart, when the device stops
* You can not put the iPhone in DFU, other procedures necessary in case of malfunctions of the device

If we wanted to give credit to the rumor, at best we might think that the Home key is located somewhere else, perhaps on the edges. But this is highly unlikely for other reasons: given that the Home button is placed on the side at the top (bottom would be impossible, since it would be pressed to handle all of the phone), try to put it in DFU or simply take a screenshot pretending that this button is on one side than the iPhone ...