Good thing my last phones for now should be the 14 PM, I don't exactly know how I feel about that change if true. Not that the quality would be bad but.. how would it work with cases and such? When it was just the home button that was a different situation, but wouldn't cases covering those non-buttons cause issue with how it perceives inputs?

All I can see is it would be rather annoying if more ruggid cases had to have more revealed spots to compensate for the different button design.