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What I learned from carrying a phone with "2.5d" screen edges: They make the screen effectively narrower in terms of usable area, while making the phone physic
by dsr_ 16d ago
What I learned from carrying a phone with "2.5d" screen edges:
They make the screen effectively narrower in terms of usable area, while making the phone physically wider.
Do not want.
Please go back to 9:16 or 10:16 screen ratios. If you need more space for the battery, gently round the back. It feels nicer in the hand even when it's 50% thicker than your competitors.
Also, a fingerprint reader / power button on the back is superior to all other placements, and cutouts of any kind are distracting and wasteful. OnePlus managed a motorized pop-out selfie-cam and it's still working for me seven years later.
- belowavgiq 16d agoHuawei was this close to making the perfect 16:9 phone, now, in 2026. I would have gladly used all my apps in a half broken Android VM (they no longer use Android themselves). It's too bad they had to be extreme about it and ruin it with a huge screen and a 5:3 aspect ratio. it's almost a cube. https://m.gsmarena.com/huawei_pura_x_view-14887.php https://m.gsmarena.com/huawei_pura_x_view-14887.php
- jazzyjackson 16d agoPersonally I like the 21:9 ratio of Sony’s Xperia 1. Big but skinny enough to reach my thumb across.
- belowavgiq 14d agoI agree, I like both. Thankfully for us, both are dead and the only options left are 19.5:9 or 20:9. Hooray!
- geokon 16d agoIsn't HarmonyOS a fork of Android? I've never seen anything about the apps being half broken - do you have more info?
- belowavgiq 14d agoThe newer versions of are no longer based on Android. So it's either quirky VMs with hundreds of papercuts or nothing. Huawei Global is still a thing, and in some markets they keep releasing phones using Android 12 and no GMS. That is probably even worse.