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Notch Solution
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iPhone X is all about the notch. It reminds you have facial recognition and not fingerprint recognition.
It's silly to hide the notch when it's Apple's signature. Without the notch, it's just a rounded rectangle like an LG or Samsung.
iPhone X is all about the notch. It reminds you have facial recognition and not fingerprint recognition.
It's silly to hide the notch when it's Apple's signature. Without the notch, it's just a rounded rectangle like an LG or Samsung.
Agree. The masses seem to be saying "do something different", "but don't".
Honestly there could be an option where you can turn on solid status bar, like in the access tab for people with poor vision or something. I honestly doubt Steve Jobs would have let the position of the time/status indicators go what with them not being align horizontally with height of the notch itself.
I don't think people want something different that totally inhibits landscape web browsing or full screen video watching
The problem is that they want something different, seemingly anything to keep their interest, without actually knowing what they want.
I actually hate the notch from purely an aesthetic point of view. But after watching a hands-on video, I feel like it somewhat makes sense due to the removal of the home button. Without the home button you need a way to quickly switch apps and/or get back to your home screen. To do this, you have to interact with the bottom of the screen by swiping. At this point, where do you move the control center to? Another use for the notch is to make it slightly more intuitive to the end-user because on the left of the notch, it brings down your notifications, on the right it brings you to control center. Now for watching videos/content in landscape mode, the notch is just annoying.
well, do something different, but don't just for the sake of it.
the notch isn't beautiful. it's irritating.
Ask yourself this:
Would the Galaxy S8 benefit from a notch?
Of course not, it would seriously mess up its beauty.
Would the Galaxy S8 benefit from a notch?
Of course not, it would seriously mess up its beauty.
The solution above is far from perfect. Now it looks like the phone has a black bezel on top, thus making it visually unbalanced. Apple just got rid of the bezel all around, making it visually balanced. That was the whole point. The solution above puts the bezel right back, but only on top, which looks even worse.
I think they left the notch on purpose so it is recognizable as an iPhone instead of all the new Android phones. What is really strange and bothers me more is when looking at fullscreen video the notch hides part of the video, unless you resize it making it smaller and not taking advantage of the whole screen size. In fullscreen mode it should black out the ears, not cover the video...
Here's a simple solution: Photoshop a wallpaper and make the notches black.
Yes, do something different, but do it for the better, not for the worse.
I agree with both of you. So often people on this forum are crying for an unspecified change and I'm usually a dissenter in those threads.
Palm had the solution way back in '09.
Hehe I don't see how that is a solution for the X. It is just like the screen in 8 and all previous iPhones.
Palm had the solution way back in '09.
Honestly I think that Palm is still a beautifully designed device.
No that would be way too smart for Tim Cook's tiny brain. Instead, lets use misconstrued marketing manipulation to better position the iPhone X as having a similar sized screen as any of the recent android flagships
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They won't ever black out status bar. They have told developers they should not do it in their apps. It's very clear how they want things to be.
Yes, they want things hideous and idiotic.
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Being reminded about facial recognition is the least of a user's worries with the X. They have serious practice to get used to control center, and the home button functionality. Moreover, control center being at the top of the very tall display essentially ensures no one can reach it one-handed anymore. That's the reality.
iPhone X is all about the notch. It reminds you have facial recognition and not fingerprint recognition.
It's silly to hide the notch when it's Apple's signature. Without the notch, it's just a rounded rectangle like an LG or Samsung.
I absolutely agree, and actually like the notch. The problem is only in videos and photos, there they should just hide it. How hard can it be?
iPhone X is all about the notch. It reminds you have facial recognition and not fingerprint recognition.
It's silly to hide the notch when it's Apple's signature. Without the notch, it's just a rounded rectangle like an LG or Samsung.