Phones with the best screen to body ratio - Here They Are

[macTW]

We know they fear bashing Apple because of the influence Apple holds in the tech industry...
Good grief, the X notch is what it is, a bad design. And that's not just my opinion, it's a fact.

You, sir, are hilarious.

First, there is quite a bit of money to be made in bashing Apple. People have preconceived prejudices towards Apple and will seek to find any article that makes them feel better about those prejudices. And secondly, the notch being a “bad” design is purely your opinion. To call it fact is to call yourself blind and ignorant to the world.

 

[Droidbricker]

I take nothing away from S8 other than the edge screen that causes accidental clicks. I know this from experience.

Unless you’re making this up, you should return that phone or inform the owner that his/her S8 is not working properly. The software that Samsung implimented to prevent accidental touches is almost flawless and has been touted as working extremely well on every other forum except MacRumers.

 

[IGotOne]

I responded to this. “I'd argue the actual ratio isn't tough at all as it's simply geometry. Argue what the number itself actually means in daily use but the number is infallible.”

The NUMBER ITSELF does NOT represent an accurate measure of usable display area with various smartphone screen designs we have in 2017. Get it?

THE NUMBER ITSELF does not represent???

Are you kidding me? Look, we can argue "usable space" and whatnot, but numbers are numbers. Bigger is bigger. No one is arguing that Samsung's edges are "exactly the same" as a flat screen area would be, just that they allow for a BIGGER display.

They also eliminate the bezels, have a higher PPI, and don't include a (subjectively ugly, but at minimum it's controversial) NOTCH, either.

If we are being intellectually honest instead of just being fanboys, I have a hunch the vast majority of users would prefer the "larger" and technically better OLED screen of the Android flagships, without bezels and without notches, but only if Apple made it and only if it included iOS.

That's fine, but it doesn't change the REALITY that for an "all screen" phone (Apple's words, not mine), there are already phones from two quarters ago that were objectively MORE "all screen" than the iPhone X. A phone they felt was sooooo cutting edge they had to skip 8 and 9 naming conventions and call it the X (10). They brought this point on themselves.

It just is what it is. It doesn't mean they won't sell tremendously. It doesn't mean I won't buy as many as I can get for 11/3 delivery (if any). It just means that there are already devices with a higher percentage of "all screen" out there.

 

[Bane-Thunder]

Unless you’re making this up, you should return that phone or inform the owner that his/her S8 is not working properly. The software that Samsung implimented to prevent accidental touches is almost flawless and has been touted as working extremely well on every other forum except MacRumers.

I owned the S8 for 3 months and sold it, not because of the accidental clicks, they were few and far between so wasn't my gripe. But it Does happen especially in the YouTube app suggested videos would be accidentally clicked when I did not want that to happen. Something I don't experience on my iPhones.

I could have lived with the edge screen again accidental clicks wasn't my biggest gripe. Android was, I tried living with Android and after 3 months in that ecosystem I couldn't take it anymore. Sold the phone bought a much cheaper second hand 6S cause I knew the iPhone X was coming.

Just cause you don't experience something stop thinking no one else does. Maybe my hands are bigger than yours who knows.

 

[Droidbricker]

I owned the S8 for 3 months and sold it, not because of the accidental clicks, they were few and far between so wasn't my gripe. But it Does happen especially in the YouTube app suggested videos would be accidentally clicked when I did not want that to happen. Something I don't experience on my iPhones.

I could have lived with the edge screen again accidental clicks wasn't my biggest gripe. Android was, I tried living with Android and after 3 months in that ecosystem I couldn't take it anymore. Sold the phone bought a much cheaper second hand 6S cause I knew the iPhone X was coming.

Just cause you don't experience something stop thinking no one else does. Maybe my hands are bigger than yours who knows.

My hands are 8 3/8” from palm to middle finger, almost a full inch above average. Sounds to me like the one with little hand syndrome is the guy who can’t grip the phone and is inadvertently touching the screen when he’s adjusting grip, like what is discussed here. Sorry bro, these larger phones aren’t for everyone. Vibes.

 

[IGotOne]

My hands are 8 3/8” from palm to middle finger, almost a full inch above average. Sounds to me like the one with little hand syndrome is the guy who can’t grip the phone and is inadvertently touching the screen when he’s adjusting grip, like what is discussed here. Sorry bro, these larger phones aren’t for everyone. Vibes.

My one hand is 20" from palm to first knuckle. The other is 4". I am a marvel of modern science.

I still can't get the S8+ to malfunction in the way described with either hand.

Outside of it running Android, it's a killer piece of tech. Unfortunately... Android...

 

[nfl46]

Who in a million years would have guessed Apple would finally be near the top of that list. Lol.

 

[MrX8503]

There's one thing that Apple is doing that the other vendors aren't, and that's a folded OLED display to tuck the display drivers underneath.

This is why all Android phones have SOME kind of chin/forehead.

 

[WilliamG]

Samsung got it right. Stop defending the Notch.

Yes Samsung got it right. I just wish my eyes bent on the corners as well, to be able to see the point of the screen bending round the side.

 

[upandown]

There's one thing that Apple is doing that the other vendors aren't, and that's a folded OLED display to tuck the display drivers underneath.

This is why all Android phones have SOME kind of chin/forehead.

Until next year.

 

[DreamPod]

Samsung is the only company that knows how to properly make a bezel less phone. Props to them.

...by having bezels instead of a notch? Weird way to be a bezel less phone...

 

[profets]

Samsung is the only company that knows how to properly make a bezel less phone. Props to them.

Interesting. Do you have any photos or can you link to this supposed bezel-less Samsung phone?