Motorola does it all the time. LG and Sony have gotten into the habit as well. Samsung never does it and probably won't anytime soon based on their comments. However, HTC is expected to do it this year. The "It" I refer to is use on-screen buttons instead of physical or capacitive buttons. The next version of the HTC One, spotted under the codename M8, is likely to have only on-screen or virtual navigation buttons to access back, home, and multitasking. That's the word from evleaks, who's usually right about everything, so we can probably expect HTC to change things around when its next phone debuts in a few months.
HTC's Android phones typically use capacitive buttons that are placed in the glass of the phone. That's been a common feature among Android devices for years, but Google has been trying to encourage phone makers to use software navigation buttons instead. Now that we can reasonably suspect HTC to switch to virtual buttons, Samsung is the only major company still holding on to that big home button.
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