man, when i read 'waterfall' i figured text would flow off the screen and move towards you until you absorb it. that would be cool, and this is just a sad excuse for a waterfall...
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Xiaomi Unveils New Concept Phone With 'Waterfall' Display on All Four Sides
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Indicator lights that show up on the edge of the display and don't get in the way of content?
Is it that hard?
You don't want it, then don't use/buy it.
What is it with people wanting or even accepting of designs with waterfall screen edges? They have absolutely zero functional use. The idea that you can have notifications show on the thin slice of the edge - how is that even useful? It only would be usable at times when you set your device down screen first, which of course is not actually the smart thing to do in the first place. Who was it that made the one device where the screen wrapped all the way around? That too was really cool, because you had this glowing slab, but in reality, only other people would ever see the glowing back side of the device, so the only reason to have the back of the device active as a screen when the front is as well, is to show off? But even in this case, why does it matter to have the edges of the device active screen?
These waterfall screened devices are effectively jewelry - offering features that do nothing functional and are just there for visual impact.
These waterfall screened devices are effectively jewelry - offering features that do nothing functional and are just there for visual impact.
This isn’t usable. Apple probably doesn’t care about concepts to fluff peoples desires. Internally Apple has many concept phones it’s not like have gone to market with the one and only product they create.
Apple has done so much more than any of these companies; like create iOS and MacOS and many products that all work together as well as a cpu in a phone that rivals most laptops.
I didn’t see anywhere they were reinventing the watch or making an automobile but maybe I just glossed over it.
You don’t tilt it to see the bottom or sides it’s an effect. You look at it like normal. It’s why the sides are 88 degrees.
This is a fine concept that means nothing and is not useful. Take a minute and think about how to use it, how to store it, what it can do that a current phone can't. Think also about what an average user wants in a phone.
I don’t want this. How do you hold it withput activating the touch screen?
It’s like the curved tv’s a few years back. They were hyped but I never understood why. They only give you a better angle if you sat right in front of them, id you were a little bit off angle, the view would be deformed. Also a useless gimmick
Apple: please don’t make this
It’s like the curved tv’s a few years back. They were hyped but I never understood why. They only give you a better angle if you sat right in front of them, id you were a little bit off angle, the view would be deformed. Also a useless gimmick
Apple: please don’t make this
Apparently there are couple of people who want this.
Nice. A solution to a question no one asked.
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Since when gimmicks are considered innovative?
So let me ask you, what purpose does this serve? Apart from looking cool?
Since when gimmicks are considered innovative?
So let me ask you, what purpose does this serve? Apart from looking cool?
Yeah - why not - alone having the status bar sideways or on top is nice.
Apple snuffs up all the profits - so companies have to come up with some physical innovation.
Am actually a huge fan of folding displays - i think next year the tech is mature enough
Since when gimmicks are considered innovative?
So let me ask you, what purpose does this serve? Apart from looking cool?
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It’s as long a gimmick as apple does not use it - right?
If hp had a touch bar. - 100 percent you would call it gimmick!
Infinity displays are quite popular - having it 4d is just a logical step
Yeah - apples concept of hiding everything is so 21 century - and is such a good example of a open society sharing their innovation!
Apple reinvents flat sides.
Xiaomi takes it one step further with display on the sides.
Xiaomi takes it one step further with display on the sides.
This is awesome!! I so want part of the image I’m viewing or the video I’m watching to be down on the edge of my phone where it is difficult to see.
Xiaomi has announced a new concept phone featuring a display that curves around all four sides of the device, with no room for ports or buttons.
The "quad-curved waterfall display" refers to the phone having 88-degree "waterfall" curves not only on the left and right sides of the device, but also on the top and bottom of the handset. As the press release describes it:
The sum total effect looks to include display-based touch controls on the sides and scrolling content that when viewed at eye level appears to sort of dribble down beyond the bottom of the screen. Based on the promotional material, the corners of the device don't exhibit the "waterfall" effect, and instead have rounded cutouts that lack any display features.
Xiaomi says the concept aims to "extend the limits of the display to infinity" and realize "a true, port-free unibody design." This feat is said to be a result of "countless breakthroughs in glass bending and laminating technology" and "an innovative screen stacking design adopted through our breakthrough 3D bonding process."
It's worth mentioning that while this is being called a concept phone, Xiaomi has told The Verge that the device does actually exist and indeed, reassuringly, they've "used it themselves."
Xiaomi's recent decision to ship upcoming smartphones without a charger and its newly announced "Mi Air Charge" remote wireless technology would seem to make more sense given the lack of ports on this device.
That said, who knows whether it will ever make it to market. Xiaomi's 2019 Mi Mix Alpha phone had a display that wrapped around almost the whole of the device, and that hasn't become commercially available either.
Article Link: Xiaomi Unveils New Concept Phone With 'Waterfall' Display on All Four Sides
Have you ever experienced a „horizon“ - yes - then make fun of god and blame him that you cant see the whole video!
Same here! I can’t wait to have the first foldable/flip iPhone in my hands. 😃