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I'd rather take that risk than have some dumbass notch blocking the screen.

by swebs 6y ago

Twirrim 6y ago
I'd rather not have something so needless as an edge to edge screen, and thus not worry about the notch at all. I really don't see the value proposition of an edge-to-edge screen being that significant.
- soulofmischief 6y ago
  That's fine if the value proposition is not right for you, and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today. One person's aesthetic preferences are not always the only way to do things. I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles.
  - Twirrim 6y ago
    > and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today We really don't. Apple came up with the notch, everyone copies it and obsesses about edge-to-edge display, managing to implement it to very varying degrees of success. > I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles. I forget which phone I had with a display that went to the vertical edges, which were curved slightly. Damn thing was almost impossible to hold without it thinking I was trying to actually touch the screen on the edge. The best case I could find stopped that from happening, with a slight trade-off that I couldn't touch anything right on the edge of the screen (very rarely ever needed that)
    - soulofmischief 6y ago
      We have dozens of flagship models, and hundreds of models in use today. The notch is a pretty stupid design decision and I'm not obsessing over it. I have this phone now because I went through four Google Pixels this year just trying to get one that wasn't defected out of the box. My current phone was a cheap sub-$400 flagship model with support from Paranoid Android meaning it has a much extended lifespan. It's not because I obsessed over an edge to edge display. I didn't know about the touch-sensitive issue bc I've never purchased a phone with rounded screen edges. That sounds very frustrating.

I'd rather take that risk than have some dumbass notch blocking the screen.

by swebs 6y ago

I'd rather take that risk than have some dumbass notch blocking the screen.

I'd rather not have something so needless as an edge to edge screen, and thus not worry about the notch at all. I really don't see the value proposition of an edge-to-edge screen being that significant.

soulofmischief 6y ago
That's fine if the value proposition is not right for you, and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today. One person's aesthetic preferences are not always the only way to do things. I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles.
- Twirrim 6y ago
  > and that's why we have such a breadth of phones available today We really don't. Apple came up with the notch, everyone copies it and obsesses about edge-to-edge display, managing to implement it to very varying degrees of success. > I think the only thing we should all be able to agree upon is that rounded screen edges make it extremely difficult to design a good phone case which protects from all angles. I forget which phone I had with a display that went to the vertical edges, which were curved slightly. Damn thing was almost impossible to hold without it thinking I was trying to actually touch the screen on the edge. The best case I could find stopped that from happening, with a slight trade-off that I couldn't touch anything right on the edge of the screen (very rarely ever needed that)
  - soulofmischief 6y ago
    We have dozens of flagship models, and hundreds of models in use today. The notch is a pretty stupid design decision and I'm not obsessing over it. I have this phone now because I went through four Google Pixels this year just trying to get one that wasn't defected out of the box. My current phone was a cheap sub-$400 flagship model with support from Paranoid Android meaning it has a much extended lifespan. It's not because I obsessed over an edge to edge display. I didn't know about the touch-sensitive issue bc I've never purchased a phone with rounded screen edges. That sounds very frustrating.