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Re: Kinoma Play without Soft Keys = Misery

borntochill,

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Charles, if it says so in that manual that you linked to, then it is either unclear, poorly written or I'm a dumbf***, which is certainly possible.
I think the last possibility is the least likely. Another possibility is that we talk to carriers and device makers too much, and that "soft key" is too jargony.

The Phone Scoop glossary entry is (IMHO) misleading. In their entry, the "soft keys" are "Camera" and "Contacts". On non-touch phones, physical keys trigger the soft keys as the illustration shows, but on touch phones they're soft keys as well -- the difference is that you just touch them directly, instead of (or even in addition to) using a physical key.

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If, on the other hand, your manual had said that pressing and holding down the on-screen half-loop arrow icon for several seconds would return you to the home screen (as Malatesta informed me upthread), then I would have tried that and there would have never have been an issue.
That seems totally reasonable, and I'll make sure we revisit that in the next manual update. (Thanks!)

-- Charles Wiltgen
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