Technically the battery percentage numerics can fit inside the battery icon but it’s up to Apple to make the minor change.
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New Images Show Smaller iPhone 13 Notch Compared to iPhone 12
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lol "fanboys" how small do you think these components can be? The answer is not as small as they'd have to be for this to work.
But people see any kind of mock-up and automatically think is doable... Being a photoshop engineer is so easy 😂
I find it strange that people have a problem with the notch as it’s taking away from unused space in portrait mode but have no problem with the unused area below the keyboard. The only time the notch is intrusive is during landscape mode and that is not the position people use they phones most of the time. Would I welcome any reduction in the notch; sure, is it a deal breaker presently; no.
Please tell me you understand physics. While some sensors can and may be reduced in physical size others like the camera to be decent would suffer. It’s like the same people and bloggers who mention the lack of a 1080p or higher camera on a MBA/P when the thickness of the lid is a fraction of an iPhone and iPad. What has happened to the education in many countries?
If you see the images there is a space between the first sensors and second while sensor 2-4 are tightly spaced.
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tell me which manufacturers are hiding FaceID without a notch. you can’t.
Oh and make a 100% bezel-less display while not being everyday functional. Pipe dreams acquired from movies. If a bezel-less phone falls on the ground (which happens) that thing will shatter and if a case is on it then usability suffers (along with user complaints).
That waterfall display that Samsung introduced was horrible and I see some Android manufacturers are still pushing it.
They're engineering the notch smaller when they should just eliminate it. I'd rather have a slightly thicker bezel or even a hole punch than a notch.
It’s about money. I’m sure apple can eliminate it completely by now. There’s other companies that have working phones with it done already out there.
Apple knows that they can give small updates that will make people upgrade so they won’t release a full screen phone till they have milked all those upgrades.
ooo smaller notch I want that.
next year- ohh no notch. Bye bye 1200$ phone that’s perfectly fine. I want that.
They know what they are doing.
You like a physical chunk of screen out of the thing you look at?
that’s just crazy to me. Have you not watched video or played a game where there is nothing there but stuff on the top left and bottom left?
its like putting dead pixels on top of your tv and you say you like it? Common now
Except there is a problem with your example. When watching TV it’s in landscape mode and having a notch on the top would be distracting however most movies have black boxes on the top and bottom as the screen is not 21:9 ratio and some content is not 18:9. Regardless with the black bars too and bottom you would not see it.
When playing a game in landscape mode the notch cuts into the right or left side of the display depending on how you hold your device and most of the time that area is covered by your thumb.
I am not making an excuse for a reduction or elimination of the notch, what I am saying is that people are making a big dea out of nothing when the phone with notch is designed to be use in portrait mode majority of the time and it’s not the problem then. What I do hope Apple brings is the unlock in any orientation from the iPad Pro to iPhone.
This seems “the definitive notch version” before it goes away.
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I'm not lying when I say it doesn't bother me.
Apple knows, that’s why they hide it in all marketing adds for the Pro version.
the notch to me is a bad idea and more over now a days that you cant unlock iphone with masks.
though touch id wasn’t better but just different, a fingerprint scanner in the side as the ipad would be much preferible for many.
The notch as developer is a real PAIN and as user you can get used to it, as humans get used to many unconfortable things (as wearing glasses) but you can’t say “I dont care it anymore”
is like that annoying noise in airplanes you get used to it but once it finished you feel the relief.
Apple doesnt allow developers to black out the sides of the notch area so full screens apps look that weird always in iPhones, that is a total disruptive way of design and customize frames.
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After a year of mask wearing a great many of us are totally disillusioned with FaceID. I wouldn't mind at all not having it anymore. And the notch remains an unsightly abomination that I still cannot unsee after 1.5 years with my 11 Pro.
Yea, I'd love to see that extra screen real estate take advantage of. I know we'll probably never get the level we do on android (I live in notifications, so having icons for each app helps the hell out of productivity) but at the very least, having some more system level icon statuses would be fantastic.
Apple is such a cheap company they wont even use a holepunch for the camera. Its 2021 and still using a notch.
It’s 1/20th of a millimeter taller. That’s less than the thickness of a sheet of paper.