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Xiaomi Unveils New Concept Phone With 'Waterfall' Display on All Four Sides
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A phone without hardware keys? I don't see how this is beneficial in any way. Smudging a flat surface with your fingers. No way to type without closely looking at the "virtual keys", no feedback pressing a key. No, I will stick with my Communicator - It does all I need and the screen is ok, covered by the flip case.
I never laugh about strange ideas. Some of them fail, some will succeed and I will love them - probably
That was immediately apparent to most of us though. Sure, a few without imagination thought otherwise but that’s normal around here.
A good use case doesn’t need much explanation. This thing here does.
It looks like a useless gimmick made to lurk teens and other 'gotta have the newest tech' people into buying the phone.
Exactly! You just gave us a practical example of how we already lived something similar before, and here we are repeating the story.
And furthermore, and even although a lot of MR readers resist, we will see again the flip and foldable smartphones in a massive way in the mid term future, foldable iPhones included.
Well, if that were enough to raise sales, why does a manufacture would not implement it?
I am sure it will attract a lot buyers. To what degree due to the screen itself remains to be seen.
It doesn't interest me at all.
I guess you already use to buy iPhone in a regular way. But for sure as you say, this “gimmick” would attract a lot buyers that not necessarily use to buy iPhone. I mean this could attract new buyers (current Androids) to Apple ecosystem. And of course, you will buy it anyway, just for being an iPhone. 😉
Because this is not an innovation, but an advertisement intended to work for people like you.
This concept has no sense whatsoever and will never be put into series production. Why would Apple show prototypes that it won't sell? If the Chinese make an unbreakable version in hundreds of millions of devices and show the benefit of this glowing side, it will change your mind.
The fact is, yes, iPhone screens have grown more durable. HOWEVER, iPhone screens are less durable in direct comparison with gorilla glass and hence, more likely to shatter when you drop it on a hard surface.
Heck, I might even go as far as saying phone screens nowadays have grown so much in durability that under display damage is perhaps more common than shattered glass on the street.
Regardless, your argument is invalid still, when the ”phone“ in question has glass on all edges, has no means of protecting it without compromising functionality. Hence, this phone is in no ways, “just like any other phone” AND is much more prone to shattering when dropped.
Like dude, it has screen on all sides mate
With you on this. The fact is, this “phone” is just a gimmick for them to showcase their capability in manufacturing.
Implementing technology in production is sure, important. But the utilization of such technology in a functional and actually feasible manner is more important IMO.
The only thing that comes to my mind is how this might be interesting for kids. One reads/ watches something or one side while the other reads/ watches something else on the other side. How they are going to hold the device so they are not "holding it wrong" might still need to be worked out by Apple (probably why they are taking the time to release this) or they may just choose to leave it to people (like Xiaomi just did).
