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Azu10157, 27 Apr 2024Okay, sure. But for budget phones, they add a thick chin an... moreHere is how phones are designed. They decide to make even small bezels on 4 sides. but they need to connect the display to the motherboard via connectors and cables which requires additional space. They decide to put space in the bottom instead of the top for aesthetics. Their options are to 1. put a chin, 2. fold the display, and connect the motherboard similar to iPhones (this increases cost). Since it's a budget phone, they go for the chin. Your suggestion is to provide symmetrical bezels on top and bottom, but has certain issues: it increases phone size but offers no increases in screen size, which affects the screen-to-body ratio (companies used to compete for this ratio a few years back). It increases the cost of manufacturing. Another thing is phones like ROG, Sony tried putting phones with even bezels on top and bottom, but Ytbers criticized those phones claiming the design is old especially since those were flagships. So now companies don't give bezels on top to make the phone symmetrical to the chin on the bottom

    Anonymous, 27 Apr 2024with LED you can use different colors for different things,... moreActually, you have those options with AOD. Check Motorola's AOD. You can see all notification badges and you can interact with them which is more functional than a notification LED. The AOD will show the app icon and if you hold that icon, it expands and shows you that notification. Also, there are Apps in PlayStore that use display pixels as notification dot. Dedicating another hardware for something that already exists along with additional software support does not make sense. Companies just need to more ergonomic AODs

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      • 30 Apr 2024

      Not worth the money. Should at least have telephoto sensor and faster charging.

        blabla, 27 Apr 2024given that AOD exists, adding additional hardware such as a... moreOkay, sure. But for budget phones, they add a thick chin and an unnecessary notch. Why not add another thick bezel up there? It'll make things symmetrical, and with that added bezel you can add a LED. It's helpful since budget phones do not get these premium features like AOD.

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          • 27 Apr 2024

          blabla, 27 Apr 2024given that AOD exists, adding additional hardware such as a... morewith LED you can use different colors for different things, so example. missed call - red, message - blue, certain contact send you something - green etc.. you can configure at will. Its more practical, costs less and you know with just a glance from afar if you need to pick up your phone and look whats happend or if you can ignore it - no such option with AOD.

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            • 27 Apr 2024

            Anonymous, 25 Apr 2024Sure , but consider that unlike apple utilizing two differe... morenot true, they nerfed the G2 on the 7a, look it up, prety sure they gonna do it again

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              • 27 Apr 2024

              Danish07, 16 Apr 2024google tensor is a worst processor in the history of the un... moreIn PCs AMD's Ryzen gen1,2 series processors used to be slower and less energy efficient compared to intel's offerings. but now AMD CPUs are more energy efficient and just as fast or more compared to Intel. Any hardware's first few generations are always gonna run with issues, lesser efficiency, driver issues, stability, and performance issues, that is how usually new products are introduced. after 3rd or 4th generation, they catch up. The same is true for Mediatrek Processors. Also, google is able to offer 7 years of Android OS updates since they can control the CPU drivers of tensor unlike snapdragon, whose drivers are controlled by Snapdragon itself limiting future updates. Soooo.... perhaps, Tensor will get better in Gen4

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                • 27 Apr 2024

                Azu10157, 16 Apr 2024You act as if I thought that's ever going to happen.given that AOD exists, adding additional hardware such as an LED does not make sense. Unlike AOD, it cannot show multiple notifications at the same time, and cannot show any details about the nature of the notification. The hardware and software requirements don't make sense to put a dedicated notification light when AOD exists. The Nothing phone implemented it for aesthetics over functionality, but no one uses glyphs as much as AOD.

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                  moerutoukon, 23 Apr 2024The price increase is definitely a negative factor. This ph... moreSure , but consider that unlike apple utilizing two different series of chipsets for buyers and literally dividing the whole market into two main buyers the less wealthy mid and the absolute riches of us ; google gives all of their buyers the same main chip weather wealthy or not and goes around to play with secondary features such as camera , battery and display . It is worth nothing that Google's phones in all price ranges except for the high-end get to become the best quality photography camera phone .

                    The price increase is definitely a negative factor. This phone is not expected to hit as hard as 7a.

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                      • 22 Apr 2024

                      NeonHD, 21 Apr 2024But the bezels thoWho cares? Got my phones in thick wallet cases

                        Hshs, 19 Apr 2024Please maybe you saying this because you couldn't or c... moreBut the bezels tho

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                          GOS, 20 Apr 2024Samsung processors are certainly not the best, but the diff... morePixel isn't comparable with other Android phones , pixel is the sense of quality , I love it !

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                            • 20 Apr 2024

                            Samsung processors are certainly not the best, but the difference here is that Tensor was designed by Google. To have better control and offer support for years! (Firmware update - you don't get that with Xiaomi or Samsung).

                            The latest processor brings MTE is a security milestone, even Apple doesn't have that.

                            The biggest plus the ability to install GrapheneOS
                            Just

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                              NeonHD, 18 Apr 2024Ironically it looks even cheaper than the Pixel 4a.Please maybe you saying this because you couldn't or cannot get your hands on more recent pixels than your pixel 4a

                                Andi, 17 Apr 2024Its excellent for regular Pixel and A series. so shush! B... moreNot Samsung and Google flagships have phones there's not perfect all around.

                                  Anonymous, 17 Apr 2024The design of display looks like a cheap chinese phone Poco... moreIronically it looks even cheaper than the Pixel 4a.

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                                    Anonymous, 16 Apr 2024You are absolutely right ! I still cannot understand why go... moreIts excellent for regular Pixel and A series. so shush! But for XL model .... Snapdragon all the way or Taiwan's TSMC foundry is the best! Much better than Korean scamming company exynos. haha

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                                      • 17 Apr 2024

                                      The design of display looks like a cheap chinese phone Poco X3 NFC from 2020.

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                                        • 16 Apr 2024

                                        This phone will be in competition with the Nothing 2a. Deciding factors will be camera quality, number of years of updates(still yet to be known for the pixel), price(128&256 variants) and looks (bezels vs glyphs).

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