Having a dedicated app switching button is nice. There are some other ways to switch apps on Note that are not bad. If you press the home button, then task manager you can find recently used apps both open and closed. Also, something I like more and more. If you are currently using an app and do a long press of the home button it will superimpose your recently used apps over your currently used app. You can then switch to another app from there and cycle over any set of apps that way. This did not close the apps I was using so I could go from reading an email to editing a file to doing something with a terminal. When I cycled through the applications it put me where I left off.