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> So now you get the downside of a fragile glass back without any kind of benefit like wireless charging. Just leaving the back metal would have been better. T
by jbob2000 8y ago
> So now you get the downside of a fragile glass back without any kind of benefit like wireless charging. Just leaving the back metal would have been better.
The entire phone is a knock-off, they've cargo-cult'd the main features from the iPhone X. There's no purpose to any of these designs.
The whole point of the notch was to put a large screen into a small phone. If your screen is going to be small anyways, then what's the point of the notch!?
Edit: I'm just salty I paid $1500 for a phone that I can soon get for $350.
- moocowtruck 8y agowho cares its a decent phone at a great price point?
- simlevesque 8y agoPeople have a irrational fear of notches on the internet. In real life I never saw anyone caring about it but on the internet people get defensive/aggresive when they see one.
- moocowtruck 8y agoso weird... it must be where one lives too, people where i live would love this phone
- UK-Al05 8y agoDoing the same thing cheaper is a perfectly valid design choice
- sh87 8y agoI so agree with this.
- jbob2000 8y agoWould you drive a Chinese car that looked like a German car? When you straight copy a design, it signals that you don't give a shit about what you're doing. Safety? Security? Quality? Fuck it.
- Nokinside 8y agoDoing the same quality cheaper is better. When it comes to signalling with phones, it's losing signalling value at accelerating pace. It's starting to be a bulk screen you carry in your pocket.
- Tsubasachan 8y agoFunny, people used to say exactly this about Japanese cars. We all know how that turned out.
- ghostbrainalpha 8y agoTop 10 Chinese knockoff cars vs. the original designs https://driving.ca/lexus/auto-news/entertainment/top-10-chinese-rip-off-cars-vs-their-original-designs https://driving.ca/lexus/auto-news/entertainment/top-10-chin... I thought you might think this is funny.
- tinus_hn 8y agoThe screen almost completely covers the phone, except the notch and a small bezel on the bottom. That's the point.
- jbob2000 8y agoiPhone XS resolution: 5.8 inches at 2436 x 1125 pixels. Nokia 7.1 resolution: 5.8-inch at 2280 x 1080 pixels. The notch gives them nothing here, in fact it eats up pixels they could have used to make the resolution better. At least the iphone screen is dense enough to say "eh, we don't need those pixels".
- abbe_k 8y agoWhat do you think the notch is for? From your comment it sounds like you think it's just for show. How does it eat pixels? The alternative would be to have a smaller screen. Also the difference in resolution is so minor it doesn't matter.