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Android Ice Cream Sandwich switched to a buttonless standard with the Galaxy Nexus. Sure, Android scales well for many different devices and ICS has backwards compatibility for phones with hardware buttons, but that's just a patch for the baggage.
Android evolved with virtual buttons in the System Bar (for Honeycomb, ICS, and beyond) for good reasons like:

• hardware button inconsistency between devices
• not having to guess whether the physical "Menu" button is useful in a context or not
• quick access...

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It says here http://blogs.computerworld.com/19133/android_ice_c... it will won't get the on-screen nav buttons and will still use the hardware buttons the same way.
That kinda sucks, though. ICS switched to on-screen navigation buttons for good reasons. I don't like the chore of holding the home button just to load the multitasking tool.
It would still be easy to force having those buttons on the screen, right? How do you think would that work?
I'm planning to buy a new phone in the...