Is this the design so then they can improve on it and remove adjust or fix the awkwardness of the notch for iphone XI? It seems odd for the notch to stick into the display, and I don't want to sign in with my face since touch Id works just fine.
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iPhone X Notch: Everything You Need to Know
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Honestly, I would have preferred if they either put black around the notch with the icons in white or colored, they could even put the black bar at the bottom so that it was uniform on both sides. It could be labeled the HOME SPACE or something so that it has a purpose.
I mean, the notch is "fine" but it just seems very un-Apple-like in terms of design. Still a beautiful phone for the 10th Anniversary Edition.
I mean, the notch is "fine" but it just seems very un-Apple-like in terms of design. Still a beautiful phone for the 10th Anniversary Edition.
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Even without the notch, it’s still technically not a bezel-less phone. And with the notch it’s definitely not a bezel-less phone.
I don’t understand why Apple couldn’t just make a reduced bezel design. The bezels have been so large for years that I would have been happy with a design that had even half the bezel as before.
The designers at Samsung are probably laughing their butts off having already finalized the Galaxy S9 design with sensors under the transparent display without bezel and no ugly notch.
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This appears to be the only poster who gets it. The notch has nothing to do with good or bad design and everything to do with the phone being easily recognized by others in public.
Seems like it doesn't help the case with that notch. Other phones have more screen space while the iPhone is truly wasting space so you are wrong. Look at the screen to body ratio of the other devices and they still have full use of their screens without a notch in the way of videos and photos.
For all the defenders of the Notch, slap a piece of black electric tape on the side of your iPad, iPhone, TV, computer screen, then come back here & tell us how it looks. How many people would buy a high end TV with a big black notch stuck at the top? Hmmm?
Keep the physical screen as it is. But reserve the notch and the bottom bit for system UI element that always have a black background. They can still have a less rounded cornered 'safe area' to make themselves unique. Like the mock by Mr Klaver. Solved!
Not really. Video games that use TVs have used NTSC safe areas for decades. Technically HDTV has a safe area as well on TVs versus computer monitors.
This is still the basic battle of "Touch" controls versus "pointing devices" and the "war on stylus". You don't have to cram a bunch of UI at the edges for easy mousing anymore. Controls should float toward the usable area, and we have wicked fast processors to move easily between screen modes in your apps. Apple is going for apps being "bigger than your iPhone", the screen is just a look into the app, it's not the limit of what an app can do. I agree, it's new constraints on developers. But constraints are how we move forward.. it just takes time to learn the new form.
Paid shills lol
If Samsung pulled this crap you'd be ripping them a new one.
This should be called out for what it is - garbage!
I'd be more interested to see those numbers reflect only the flat part of the display.
Every part of Samsungs display counts even with the beautiful immersive curve......
I don't think it's just about that. It's also about making honest design. Obviously the goal would be a full screen display, but the engineering reality is that there currently needs to be a dedicated area for the sensors. Instead of hiding this requirement and faking symmetry in software or by adding additional bezels, Apple simply let the notch be true to itself and filled the remaining space with display. I'm reminded of the battery case. It's also being honest about carrying a battery on its back:
its a marketing scam so they can claim a 5.8 inch screen
Sorry, but those Mickey Mouse Ears are a major failure in UI design.
Rounded corners are fine but rounded edges like on the S8 is terrible since you always have a constant glare along the side of the phone thus distracting you and ruining the screen contrast. At work I always see the overhead lights reflecting off the edges of peoples S8. That is a total fail.
I think would look better if they put the Bluetooth icon on the left, right hand side of the clock. Location arrow can go left of the clock.
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Who and how did these number come out about? With that much black bar space top and bottom for the Samsung. Along with a lot of space reserved for their home bar, I just don't see it.
The left right curved screen portion is not really useable anyways either...
At least they make it obvious where you can swipe to bring up either Notification Center or Control Center.
Which also explains why the ear on the right has to be so crowded, as it wouldn't be logical to move any of the icons over to the left.
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