I actually think the phone on the left looks better than the ‘full screen’ one on the right.
What’s so wrong about bezels?! I just don’t get it. Some people act like they’re the most disgusting thing. It’s just a part of the phone, and they give me something to touch when I don’t wanna touch the screen.
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Can I just ask why you made this thread? You’ve stated you’re getting an X, so where’s the sense in bashing the 8/8+? What’s the point? Can’t you just go be excited about the X?
What's wrong with bezels? I guess it bears repeating. This is not subjective. Bezels unnecessarily increase the physical size of the device, which can compromise usability.
Smartphones are particularly the types of devices where screen-to-body ratio is an objective, important design factor. We are at a point where we can pack larger screens into small, pocketable devices. By staying with old bezels, while the screens get bigger, the devices become unnecessarily large and to the detriment of usability (e.g., one handed holding/use; use in general; pocketability, etc.).
Again, the fact that Apple has publicly announced that the iPhone X is the future, and that they've wanted to make an all screen, bezeless phone for years, puts the nail in any bezel coffin. In other words, whether you like it or not, bezels are dead. They're dead to the industry. Dead to Apple. Dead to consumers. They're superfluous. They're on the way out. Within a year pretty much all flagship smartphones will have small bezels like Samsung's and LG's current flagships.
Does a person need some kind of bezel to deal with fingers holding onto the device so the screen and user interface elements aren't obstructed? Turns out that all you need is something very thin, like on the X. Apple also does a good job regarding the bezels on the sides of the new generation iPads, which make the original, first generation iPad look and feel extremely dated.
Now, getting to the "top" and "bottom" of devices. This is where Apple is extremely dated on the iPhone 8... the forehead and chin are horribly bulky and chunky. A person does not need that much bezel to hold the device in their hands without affecting the usability of the software on the device. Neither does a person need such large bezels on the forehead and chin of the iPads.
Apple knows this too, but they have no choice. They have no choice because the technology doesn't exist to put sensors, cameras, and other components in the screen in a way that is transparent, which would negate the need to have any kind of bezel on the top and bottom, or notch.
So they balance it out by putting fatter bezels on the top and bottom (the bottom is largely superfluous, as they're no sensors there).
With the iPhone X, they broke away from symmetry and balance, ergo the notch. The notch, for this reason, creates imbalance to the design, which isn't good. But it's what they decided to do.
I am close to absolute certainty that Steve Jobs would have gotten Apple to a point where it could embed the sensors and camera into the screen with transparent components. Or at least would have miniaturized the components to fit them into a razor thin bezel/frame on the iPhone X. And that he would have never released a device like the X with a notch: it would have simply been a prototype. There would be nothing there, just all screen.
Steve led Apple to something similar in the development of the very first iPhone. He got the touch sensor grid required for the screens of the multi-touch iPhones to be
transparent and
densely packed. This feat of engineering has been far too understated in my opinion: it was a breakthrough that served as the foundation for multi-touch, and how the device worked. Prior to this, the touch grids in screens were no where near as densely packed and effectively had visible wires, like you see in your back car window for defrost.
Apple was awarded a patent for such a transparent capacitive layer in and around 2012.
It's incredible that the glass screen of an iPhone or iPad is jammed packed with a grid of wires that you really can't see when you use the device: but they're there.
If anyone has an HP TouchPad, which came out after the first iPad in July, 2011, it's touchscreen technology pales in comparison to Apple's. It simply has metal dots in the glass that you can see at the right angle and with the right lighting. The dots form a grid in a way. But because they're spaced so far apart, the precision of the multi-touch is not good in comparison to Apple (your finger has to pass over one of the dots for a touch to register).
Image original link:
https://gizmodo.com/5473866/apple-now-has-a-patent-on-their-capacitive-multitouch-displays
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You say bezels are dead but now they're substantially smaller. Which one is it?
They are dead. They're getting substantially smaller.
