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Pixel 8 Pro owners complain about display bumps
- jeffbee 3y agoI cannot feel bumps in the indicated place on my P8P, even though I can see them under very bright oblique light.
- gruez 3y agoIt's probably under the glass, so you can't feel it
- croes 3y agoBecause they are only visible not touchable
- jeffbee 3y agoSomething visible but not tangible is a dot, not a bump.
- yencabulator 3y agoIt's a bump in the in the screen, but the screen is under the glass.
- TranquilMarmot 3y agoI tried _very_ hard to see these on my Pixel 8 Pro but they don't seem to be there? Maybe I don't have the right lighting conditions.
- Turskarama 3y agoIt's likely it doesn't affect all devices, the reviewer for mashable also couldn't see them.
- kxrm 3y agoNot all devices have this. I have a Pixel 8 Pro that I ordered at launch and it has zero issues.
- wkat4242 3y agoI wonder what's under there, a teardown should be able to tell. Perhaps some screw heads?
- wkat4242 3y agoI found it! It's not screw heads but some spring contacts pushing against the (metal film) back of the display panel. Probably for grounding purposes: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+8+Pro+Screen+Replacement/165684#s348804 https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Google+Pixel+8+Pro+Screen+Repla... Looks like the springs are so stiff they leave an imprint. Curiously there's a whole lot more of them around the edges but those don't seem to leave imprints. I can imagine this is annoying though. It's hard to unsee something like this. Like when you get the first scratch on your new phone.
- etchalon 3y agoIt seems like every Pixel model ends up having some weird issue.
- ajross 3y agoEvery phone has a list of warts like this. Compare "iPhone 15 reported issues are piling up: 5 common problems we're hearing": https://mashable.com/article/apple-iphone-15-issues-bugs https://mashable.com/article/apple-iphone-15-issues-bugs It's a platform war, everyone has something they hate and if you put up an article about how "XXX sucks" they know they'll get clicks and upvotes on HN. (FWIW: just checked my wife's 8 and I can't see any bumps, but maybe it's only certain BOM components or whatnow)
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- GeekyBear 3y agoOthers have noted this. > Every time a new Pixel phone comes out, we make a whole article summarizing all the problems people have with them. We don’t do this for any other manufacturer. Google has proven over the years that its phones simply have way more issues than others. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-biggest-problem-1119218/ https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-biggest-proble...
- no_carrier 3y agoSince Google doesn't make screens, I don't see how this is their fault? > https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-biggest-proble https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-biggest-proble... That article is from 2020. In my opinion, Pixel is the crown jewel of Android.
- timothyduong 3y agoIt is their duty to perform QA. Just like how car manufacturers don't make speakers but get B&W or Bose, if those speakers are at fault, do we send the car to Bose/B&W or to the car dealership/repair centre?
- mensetmanusman 3y agoThese are all over the apple watch in the right lighting. It has to do with how OLEDs are manufactured.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoMaybe, but I had at least 3 OLED phones till date, all with Samsung panels, and none had these bumps at any lighting condition, and I know because I like to peep at my displays to look for scratches.
- saiya-jin 3y agoYou realize Samsung keeps the best displays for itself and gives Apple second best ones? You can see it in things like resolution, peak brightness, refresh rate etc. I thought its only HW specs, maybe it also includes similar small defects, or Apple (and Google) has simply lower acceptance threshold for this
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>You realize Samsung keeps the best displays for itself and gives Apple second best ones? You are kidding right? Do you have any sources for this? Samsung Displays is a different company than Samsung Electronics, and just like TSMC, they build displays to order for any customers to their specs, since they're in the business of selling as many displays as possible, not catering exclusively to their sister company making phones. They have no interest to intentionally make lower quality displays for non-Samsung customers, especially due to increased competition from the likes of BOE. Otherwise how do you explain the existence of Chinese phones like OnePlus which traditionally shipped with bleeding edge Samsung panels that had even higher brightness than Samsung's own flagships? So if Apple's displays seem inferior in specs to the cutting edge ones in Samsung's flagship phones, it's because those are the specs Apple ordered Samsung to make knowing full well the compromises (most likely cost and other potentially unknown risky teething issues of bleeding edge OLED tech)
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- daniel-s 3y agoSometimes people don't realise that complaining about something is actually a type of compliment. The most newsworthy complaint about the screen is that there exists an optical illusion that causes some users to think the screen is uneven: * When off. * Under the correct lighting conditions. In other words, it's so close to perfect that there is that little to complain about.
- uxp8u61q 3y agoIt's a component whose sole purpose is to show you something. If an "optical illusion" hinders that purpose, then that's a defect.
- lofaszvanitt 3y agoFirst things first. Hire an industrial designer to make this phone look like a modern phone, not something designed by an engineer with no aesthetic sense.
- vimsee 3y agoAnd here I was thinking the design of the phone made total sense to me. Not overdone in any way shape or form.
- saiya-jin 3y agoThat's very relative and subjective, ie Apple users consider their devices beautiful, I personally find them a fugly cheap looking brick. I know I am a tiny minority, and that's fine. Pixel has generally OK design and there are reasons for it, no phone is perfect these days.
- lofaszvanitt 3y agoYeah, but maybe steering it from uglyness towards a more attractive design wouldn't hurt the mud loving hog.