The Back button takes you back until your reach home, just like a web- browser.
Menu button allows you to save some real-estate on the screen. Blackberry users are used to it. WinMobile users are used to it. All your points are valid, but they are a specific choice of UI-design and i don't think that either choice (iPhone vs Android) is wrong. They're just different. On Jan 26, 8:56 pm, Peter Eastman <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I instead press home and open my calendar then as you say, pressing back > > takes me to the home screen. > > As it should. That is consistent with the interpretation of Back as > "take me back to where I was before." Before opening the calendar you > were on the Home screen, so that is where Back should take you to. > > The example I gave was a different situation: you press Home, then > Back without opening any other application. In that case, it ought to > take you back to where you were when you pressed the Home button. > That is consistent with the idea of "take me back to where I was > before." But that isn't what it actually does. In fact, it doesn't > do anything at all. > > Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
