The side button on your Android smartphone offers quite a bit more functionality than simply turning the power off, by ...

The power button on our Android devices is most commonly used to turn the screen on and off, as well as restarting or ...

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 ...

If you’re a long-time Android user, you’re used to long-pressing the power button to (logically) power your phone on or off. For a while, long-pressing the button while the phone was on also enabled ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the Power Options button has gone missing on your Windows 8.1 Start Screen, then this registry tweak will ensure that you get it back. Using the Registry, you can make Windows show or hide the ...

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 ...