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Samsung's side button on Galaxy phones can be a power-off button, a key to summon assistants like Bixby or Gemini, and a ...

Is it a controversial design choice or a completely acceptable location for the new Mac mini power button? Credit: Apple The new Mac mini, powered by the M4 chipset, was announced last month. Not only ...

There was once a time when it was obvious what the three buttons on the side of your phone did. One turned the volume up, one turned the volume down, and the final one turned the phone on and off. It ...

Smartphones might be hurtling towards a port-less, button-less future, but if there’s one button that remains a constant (for now), it is the humble power button. But what purpose it serves seems to ...

Samsung lets Galaxy phone users activate voice typing via the power button, and it’s available on older devices too. This could be useful if you think the voice typing icon is in an inconvenient place ...

Apple’s M4 Mac mini sports all-new thermal design for maximum performance and a physical power button on its underside The designers of Apple’s new, diminutive Mac mini have relocated the power button ...

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The most important button on the original Xbox wasn’t the power button: it was the button to eject the disc tray. Conceptually, this doesn’t make sense. Of course the power button should be the most ...

I think a lot about power buttons these days. With modern devices — especially smartphones — we don’t really use them as power buttons, because our phones are never really off. But that’s a ...

I don’t have any statistics on this, but most of the laptops that cross my desk have one thing in common: pressing the power button puts them to sleep (i.e. standby mode) instead of actually shutting ...