What do you think? You want that switch?
I personally like this idea!
I personally like this idea!
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Notch hiding switch on iPhone X [MUST WATCH]
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Yea, that would solve controversial "Notchgate", but I highly doubt Apple will offer that option...
Notch is not going away. It won't be hidden by software updates or app developers. They could have just as easily designed the phone this way without the notch altogether. Apple is embracing the notch and the branding it brings. Nice mockup though.
The problem is that the notch is hardware. The proposed solution is software based. You'd have to ensure videos understand software parameters. Some will and some won't. It would result in a very inconsistent experience.
The notch only ever 'gets in the way' if you watch videos at an incorrect aspect ratio in landscape mode. Other than that it's just style preferences.
The notch only ever 'gets in the way' if you watch videos at an incorrect aspect ratio in landscape mode. Other than that it's just style preferences.
Can't think of any other reason for Apple other than OLED's aren't still that good quality they claim and suffer same burn in problems that before, and instead of using pixelshifting or other techniques, they don't want permanent status bar trying to avoid burn ins. Anyway, not a fan of Notch. It's horrible.
Having this option would make me buy the X. Otherwise, I'll stick to the 8 plus.
If they have that option I would buy it. Unfortunately they don’t and you know what else they don’t have? A sale from me! If they change their mind and offer that option then I would be glad to reconsider but until such time its a hell no
This is how they should have done it, and they should have used 3D Touch in the bottom bezel to act as the home button.
Honestly if they did that I wouldn’t hesitate in buying the iPhone X.
I think it is more ‘magical’ that way, and they could still embrace the notch in places like the lock screen.
Honestly if they did that I wouldn’t hesitate in buying the iPhone X.
I think it is more ‘magical’ that way, and they could still embrace the notch in places like the lock screen.
Ah, So you want the old school bezels back? There are alternate phone models for you.
I am still surprised apple went with notch design. Just like many people i am really disappointed. Dropped the idea of buying X. 8 Plus is still a good option, front and back glass.
Hahah. Yeah don't dare complain about the most unimaginably, embarrassingly moronic thing that Apple Inc. has ever done. Don't dare complain about the fact that you love Apple hardware and software (for the most part), but are forced into buying this piece of trash design. By forced into I mean to say that this is it, if you don't like atrocious design then you're ****ed and you have to switch when you never wanted to switch because you trusted Apple's teams not to be incompetent. Forced into leaving the ecosystem you bought into.
Yes, Rogifan, great input. Truly, great input. Very insightful.
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No. The hardware design of the iPhone X is absolutely amazing, including the notch. The PROBLEM is the software. See, the software could be designed by highly intelligent people who know to hide the notch by placing the status elements on a perpetual black background, but they are not intelligent at all, clearly.
I agree 100%. been with iPhones since 3g. upgraded every two years and now we are here. I have an Apple Watch, mabook pro, iPad, Apple TV. Numerous stands, cables etc...
I am really contemplating switching phones as of now because of this poor design choice. It feels rushed. They could of redone the whole phone from the ground up (like they should of).
I would of started fresh. iPhone 4 style with the sandwiched frame look(not curved design like now).
I would of built all the front facing camera and sensors into the actual frame right over the glass where it meets where the glass is.
Thats the only way I see a full face phone working is to have the frame support all the top section and just a slab of glass built right into it.
Anyway, I don't see apple as having that polished feel much lately. The MacBook Pro new model feels and looks really good, but the phones are slowly losing its preciseness and this design choice is just bad. Fragmentation, and pulls your sight away from the content. thats bad design choice.
I feel like if Im going to switch it would be super hard so I was hoping for them to pick up their clean lines again but they failed horribly.
oh what to do
From an app perspective there is no difference - you can’t draw in that space. So the only difference is the background colour - think of it like an ambient solution to give the feel of more space
Actually you’d have less space with the soft bezel because of the rounded edges
Actually you’d have less space with the soft bezel because of the rounded edges
There is only one way to think of it: a complete lack of uniformity in the display which factually WILL draw your eyes away from the content. Now, personally I think a user's eyes should not be drawn away from the content, but maybe my logical thinking just doesn't cut it
I can't believe that notch went to retail.
It looks like complete trash when watching media in landscape, and by apple's own figures from memory a few years ago, one of the most popular uses for the iphone is media consumption.
It's a massive fail on Apple's part. Video playing should at least blank out the ears as black so that you don't have this massive immersion breaking notch in the side of your content.
And yes, the puck (along with the mighty mouse or whatever it was called with the ball in the top) are craptastic products that prove apple is fallible just like everyone else.
Along with the Anniversary Mac, the Pippin, the butterfly keyboard (due to the reliability issues), etc.
That said, i've used a puck mouse. I'm not sure what would annoy me more to be honest, the notch or the puck. At least the puck was trying to be stylish. The notch is a whole heap of "because we can" with ZERO thought put towards "should we?".
It's a crap-tastic idea and the phone would be FAR better with bunch of other basic choices.
I'm only slightly surprised to see people defending it though.... but seriously guys, Steve is gone, this wasn't his doing... it isn't the work of the messiah or whatever. You can lay off the mindless worship of everything apple does now...
It looks like complete trash when watching media in landscape, and by apple's own figures from memory a few years ago, one of the most popular uses for the iphone is media consumption.
It's a massive fail on Apple's part. Video playing should at least blank out the ears as black so that you don't have this massive immersion breaking notch in the side of your content.
And yes, the puck (along with the mighty mouse or whatever it was called with the ball in the top) are craptastic products that prove apple is fallible just like everyone else.
Along with the Anniversary Mac, the Pippin, the butterfly keyboard (due to the reliability issues), etc.
That said, i've used a puck mouse. I'm not sure what would annoy me more to be honest, the notch or the puck. At least the puck was trying to be stylish. The notch is a whole heap of "because we can" with ZERO thought put towards "should we?".
It's a crap-tastic idea and the phone would be FAR better with bunch of other basic choices.
I'm only slightly surprised to see people defending it though.... but seriously guys, Steve is gone, this wasn't his doing... it isn't the work of the messiah or whatever. You can lay off the mindless worship of everything apple does now...
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Don't look at the notch as if it intrudes into the OLED.
Look at the notch as allowing those two extensions of the OLED on either side of it.
If only. Look up how it looks when playing video. Or games.
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I'd rather NOT have screen there. We don't need edge to top edge screen. If the sensors need to be there, DON'T put totally useless screen around them. Or reserve it for the battery and status indicators. DON'T play video in the notch area, it looks like trash.
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So those games and videos that Apple demonstrated playing in that space when in landscape don't exist? Oh, ok then.