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iPhone X Notch: Everything You Need to Know

itguy06 said:

Double tap and put in the PIN. That's what I do when it's on the nightstand. Or I have to pick it up to look at it anyway and the finger on the back isn't that bad.
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If you can tap in a PIN while half asleep then you're a better man than I.
 
Hedwigg said:
camera bump. Now nobody even thinks about it.
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Are you familiar with the phrase beating a dead horse? That's why no one talks about it. Apple is clearly not going to fix it. That doesn't mean it isn't to this day horrid looking and incredibly annoying. I have scratched so much paint off things in my house and have a few gouges on desks/tables from that bump. I actively have to consider its presence every time I set my device down or pick it up, careful not to slide it. And the one on my iPad Pro is leaving an ugly depression on the flip cover.

So no. You're wrong. The bump is still a p.o.s. design decision.
 
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votdfak said:
We, as humans, are built to get over anything. You get over the most horrible things, notch is like nothing to get over.
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yeah we are a remarkable species when it comes to adaptation however I am not going to pay 1000+ to then have to adapt to a black notch in my screen. especially if the next generation will be black notch free.
 
macTW said:
"Make a bezelless phone! Smaller bezels the better!"

"Why didn't you make thicker bezels to hide the necessary cameras and sensors? Nobody asked for bezels that small."
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Yup, people are never going to be pleased either way they went although I'm surprised Apple didn't simply reduce the top and bottom bezels physically, upgrade to OLED and leave the rectangular constraint display as is. Now, instead of having a physical top and bottom bezel, we have "onscreen bezels" that do as much as they physical counterparts at the compromise of a rectangle with curved edges and a weird 'notch' on the side.
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Avatar74 said:
It's an optical illusion caused by the "heavier" packing of objects on the right side... of course, that itself is a bit of an aesthetic error. They could have scaled the icons differently to make it look more uniform to the clock on the opposite side.
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Or convert the time into 24 hour time .:. 9:41 would be 09:41 and that time component would always be centred correctly.
 
xpxp2002 said:
This is all I've been asking for the entire time: just higher screen resolution and the Plus camera without having to go to the Plus.

Don't want OLED, don't want to lose a front-side Touch ID, and don't want these godawful compromises to squish everything into the extreme edges and ears of a compromised design. And to pay more for it than ever before? There's no way.
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I don't really care about the dual camera but why don't you want OLED? It's a massive improvement. iPhone 8 with a 1080P OLED display would've been perfect.
 
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hell, i hope they keep it static with the time (and date!), network and battery life. I hate exiting apps just to check those things. Its like being in a casino (which never have clocks).
 
Classic film moments featuring the notch. I'm sure there must be a way around this.

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Mildredop said:
Great solution!

(Until you actually use your phone rather than just stare at your home screen)
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I understand that. It is called a little bit of humor.

I am getting the iPhone X because I really do not care about the notch, and want the better OLED screen and cameras.

:apple:
 
Hedwigg said:
"Controversial"... just like the iPhone 7/7+'s "controversial" camera bump. Now nobody even thinks about it. People always have to make something out of nothing. Ugh.
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The camera bump is one of the dumbest engineering decisions in the whole phone design. Totally unnecessary, easily fixable, and it forces everyone to use a case if they want a smooth back on their phone.
 
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This is right up there with the iHump Battery case Apple designed. It might serve a purpose but its ugly and bad design imo.
 
Anybody remember the reaction on this very site when Motorola had the nerve to introduce a watch with a notch at the bottom?
Motorola-Moto-360-smartwatch.jpg
 
jedifaka said:
Anybody remember the reaction on this very site when Motorola had the nerve to introduce a watch with a notch at the bottom?
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probably similar to the reaction here. maybe not as bad though cause who spends alot of time staring at a watch to play games, watch movies, web , etc?
 
redscull said:
Are you familiar with the phrase beating a dead horse? That's why no one talks about it. Apple is clearly not going to fix it. That doesn't mean it isn't to this day horrid looking and incredibly annoying. I have scratched so much paint off things in my house and have a few gouges on desks/tables from that bump. I actively have to consider its presence every time I set my device down or pick it up, careful not to slide it. And the one on my iPad Pro is leaving an ugly depression on the flip cover.

So no. You're wrong. The bump is still a p.o.s. design decision.
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I appreciate you stating that my opinion is "wrong". Hah
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votdfak said:
Every time I put my iPhone 7 plus on the table I am reminded of awful design. Camera bump is ****. Notch is ****. Let's not pretend it's awesome.
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Oh, nobody's pretending it's awesome. What I'm saying is... the camera bump and the iPhone X notch won't stop anyone from buying their precious new iPhone. Let's not pretend that it will.
 
Loge said:
Reading, PDFs for example, where the text may be too small to read in portrait, but can be read in landscape and vertically scrolled. This is an area where the Plus is superior.
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I'll be honest text in a PDF is never to small for me to read in portrait - I have the plus set to the smallest text size available for the UI too.

I just find things too narrow in landscape to do anything useful, it's just lots of scrolling.
 
Gob Bluth said:
We can only hope that Apple starts putting notches on their MacBooks, iMacs, and iPads so that there is uniformity. A notch in every Apple display would take a lot of courage.
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I see a future of U-shaped MacBook Pros.
"We've decided to extend the edges so you have a permanent place to play your cat videos. And look, we've updated iTunes so it fits perfectly!" - Eddy Cue, Senior Explainer of Weird Designs
 
itguy06 said:
Sure you can. Fingerprint on the back. My ZTE has it and it's better than the front of the phone like the iPhone. And it's got better speakers and smaller bezels. It's got a screen the size of a 6+ in the body of a 6....
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So you would rather have a Touch ID sensor on the back? Not user friendly at all. It's just sad that people will go that far for aesthetics. You know bezelless phones have no functional purpose. Taking bezels off a phone gives no functional benefit. In fact, no one cares about bezels. At least normal people. The only people whining about it are the techies. Not regular people. People don't wake up at night and think to themselves "omg those horrible fugly bezels! Doesn't happen :)
 
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