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What is this 'flagship design' nonsense. The notch is a horrible idea, iphone or not. Glass everywhere makes it less grippable. And now we see the complete lac
by peterbraden 8y ago
What is this 'flagship design' nonsense. The notch is a horrible idea, iphone or not. Glass everywhere makes it less grippable.
And now we see the complete lack of originality in the phone industry as the manufacturers compete to clone the iphone design.
The pixel was pathetic, with it's pandering lack of headphone jack. And now we see Nokia continue the race to the bottom of cloned design phones.
- tareqak 8y agoI always buy a case for my phone since I consider it a kind of physical insurance.
- microcolonel 8y agoI must say, most manufacturers sure don't act like they want to beat Apple, they seem to just want to be up to date with Apple's most contentious and unpopular design decisions (probably because they're the easiest to copy shamelessly). At best, they are providing fodder for the next time Apple goes to court to argue that competitors are ripping off the designs. The Razer Phone is actually interesting for not going the shameless copying of trivial design elements route. In my opinion their symmetrical, reasonably-sized device is very attractive. The one major complaint I have about the Razer Phone is their choice to go with a 1440p display, which more or less forced them to ship the device with the display downclocked to 90Hz (from 120Hz) by default, probably for power issues with scanout; I feel they could've sidestepped this issue by just shipping a 1080p display instead, which they could run at 120Hz with lower scanout bandwidth than 1440p at 90Hz. The display runs most things at 1080p anyway, and 1080p displays are already very high resolution in that form factor. If they shipped it with a 1080p display at 120Hz, they wouldn't have thrown away the immediate responsiveness advantage they should've won with the other hardware work.
- yawgmoth 8y agoGlass everywhere makes it nice and easy to slide out of your pocket.
- Dirlewanger 8y agoWas that a problem before?
- simlevesque 8y ago> The notch is a horrible idea I never got this. Why is it worse than bezel ? How does it affect usability / performance of the phone ? I have a notch on my phone and it's notch is the last thing I care about.
- rpeden 8y agoSome people really hate screens that aren't symmetrical. Or they just think that the notch is ugly, or distracting. And I think those are all fine reasons to consider the notch a horrible idea. I don't mind the notch myself. I don't think it hurts the performance or usability if a phone. I try to keep things like this in perspective. I feel that mushrooms totally destroy the performance and usability of a pizza. And yet many people love mushrooms on their pizza, and think I'm a complete weirdo for feeling the way I do. So whenever I don't get why people dislike something, I try to think of things I strongly dislike that lots of people seem to enjoy. Then it all makes a little more sense. :)
- paulddraper 8y agoA notch gives you an odd, asymmetrical screen. Virtually all digital graphics are based on a rectangular viewing area, whether apps, websites, videos, etc. Honest question: What would you think you went to a movie theater and the entire time there was notch removed from the corner of the movie?
- nextos 8y agoI do prefer smaller phones too. And unlockable. All Nokias are locked down. Which is a pitty now that Treble ROMs are starting to surface.