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What is the ‘Genius Button’?

What's the Genius Button?

The recent images of the myTouch Slide have given us the best look at the phone to date.  There's one thing we've not seen discussed elsewhere so we're calling on you to help.  If you look to the bottom right of the physical buttons, you'll see a lime green button with a lowercase "G' printed on it.  In one image, we can see what appears to be an application called 'Genius Button'.

This obviously has to be something T-Mobile as opposed to HTC or Google.  A quick check of US Trademarks tells us that T-Mobile filed for the trademark just over a month ago on March 2nd.  We're curious as to what it actually does.  Is it a quick access button to your favorite social networking services?  Does it pull up an all-in-one portal with news, weather, RSS, and more?  More importantly, is this something we'll see on other handsets?

If you have anything to offer in regards to the Genius Button, hit up our contact page!


Scott founded AndroidGuys on November 5, 2007 and has been hooked ever since. His other mobile efforts can be found on AndroidAtlas (CNET) where he covers Google's mobile platform. When not obsessing over phones and tablets, Scott can be found listening to house music, watching the Green Bay Packers, or catching the latest movie.

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  • http://twitter.com/tenkely @tenkely

    It appears to have replaced the search button... I bet it does something like that.

  • http://twitter.com/Bulgaro @Bulgaro

    Interesting, I'll be up all night wondering.... Thanks

  • Nobody

    It's like a combonation of Spotlight on the iPhone and Google Goggles. You launch it start typing while it searches the phone and Internet. Then there's a button to launch the camera so you can use it to take pictures of stuff and search for them.

  • Seth

    the search function of android 1.6 (donut) and up already searches the phone AND internet.

  • just somme dude

    Maybe something to do with Google voice, and Google rolling out number portability. So one touch calling with your Google voice number. This is just a thought.

  • Anon

    I played with it a little today. It's a sort of one stop voice search from what I could tell. The phone did not have a Sim in it.
    The phone is real nice though.

  • Nobody

    This brings it together with a Goggles like app with a slicker interface.

  • Nobody

    You mean like the one Android already has?

  • Seth

    ok that makes more sense

  • http://fognl.com kelly

    Everybody knows that the lower-case g is trademarked by Garth Brooks, so my guess is that when you press the button, Garth Brooks will appear on the screen kind of like the paper clip does in MS Office.

  • BruceJ

    LOLOLOLOLOL LMAO ^^^ !!!

  • http://ekas0615.student.ipb.ac.id eka

    nice info. thanks for sharing. i like it :p

  • bigballer2327

    the button is a voice thingy like if you click it then say "Text "EXAMPLE HERE" i hate you"" then it does that.

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  • Get it off my awsome phone!!!

    genious button sucks with jawbone era!!! no text reading or any thing!!!!

  • Get it off my awsome phone!!!

    genious button sucks with jawbone era!!! no text reading or any thing!!!!

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