Sunday debate: Curved vs. flat screens
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- Anonymous
- q}u
- 15 Aug 2020
CurvedSucks, 17 Apr 2020The benefits of a curved screen are: 1. They make it easie... moreWell said!
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- Anonymous
- tew
- 11 Aug 2020
Math, 07 Aug 2020Any Android company that decides to release a phone this ye... moreDon't forget to mention a 16:9 display too!
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- Math
- YgM
- 07 Aug 2020
Any Android company that decides to release a phone this year with flagship specs and camera, with a nice high refresh rate FLAT screen, is getting my money + my family and friends money. These companies are not listening to their customers and not giving people options.
Curved screen:
- More expensive to create
- More expensive to repair
- Accidental palm touches
- Expensive and annoying to apply UV screen protectors
- Curved screen does not equal premium
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- Person
- 3EX
- 31 Jul 2020
Stop curved screens, 03 Jun 2020Plz stop making curved screens they are useless and ugly. I... moreThat's a stupid argument. There are other phone brands available that don't have phones with curved edges. Even Samsung only has a couple of those besides that - the others are flat screened.
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- Stop curved screens
- n%0
- 03 Jun 2020
Plz stop making curved screens they are useless and ugly. I have no other choice than to buy an Apple or Sony phone because they dont have that ugly corved screen.
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- Anonymous
- IPf
- 21 May 2020
would be really cool if you could filter out curved screens in the phone finder!
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- CurvedSucks
- 4Au
- 17 Apr 2020
The benefits of a curved screen are:
1. They make it easier to accidentally run applications.
2. Improve readability of documents for people with astigmatism by distorting the edges of the screen.
3. Reduce the chance of accidentally dating someone ugly by making it more difficult to swipe left (or right for that matter).
4. Eliminate the need for a screen protector by making them useless at protecting your screen
5. Increase profits for people that fix phones with broken screens.
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- ProUser
- qaW
- 16 Feb 2020
I will not buy a phone with curved screen again. For me it is not only a pointless feature but ugly in addition. Where are the high end phones with a simple rectangular screen? On my Samsung Note 9 I am reading a lot of pdf documents and also use the stylus quite often. Doing this, the curved screen with its unnecessary reflections is always irritating me. Therefore no Samsung Note 10. When I sometimes use my cheap and old Samsung J5 2016 I realize that the old flat and rectangular display is just perfect (and great aspect ratio which could be even a bit more going in direction of 3:2). If there only would be a modern high end stylus phone with such display. Samsung should have launched instead of the Note 10 lite a Note 10 Pro with flat display, display aspect ratio more for documents and not videos, real dual sim + sd, fm radio, more configurable buttons on the outside or on the pen (maybe a voice recorder in the stylus?)
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- Anonymous
- TbY
- 13 Feb 2020
I will not buy a phone with curved edges again. I really hate them. Makes the phone hard to use and I find I'm activating things I don't want activated.
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- Anonymous
- kvy
- 01 Nov 2019
I dont buy any of the arguements given in favor of curved screens.
-They dont look all that good to me
-Curved screens do not add any USABLE screen area. May as well put a screen on the back of the phone if you just want "more screen area." You can only ever see as much screen area as a flat surface perpendicular to your line of sight. But it gets worse: it actually takes away from the distortion-free screen area. Theres a reason we dont have curved edges on televisions: because nobody wants them. yes curved screen TVs exist, but for an entirely different reason from "looking pretty at the expense of fuctionality.
-It does not effect bezel size.
-As stated in the first part of the article, it does not effect cost of replacing the screen, it effects how often you have to do it. Having the most fragile part of your phone sticking out results in a higher probability of that part receiving the shock of landing when dropped. but it worse because...
-Cases for curved screens usually suck. You are stuck between protecting those curved edges in a raised bezel, making that area of the screen into a crevice that hard to get your fingers into.. or leaving them accessable, but exposed and unprotected.
-And as for accidental touches... hooray, for solving a problem that shouldnt even exist in the first place.
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- Anonymous
- ftM
- 04 Sep 2019
Anonymous, 10 Sep 2018I am using my s8 plus as a daily driver for more than a yea... moreCurved screens are more attractive and make the phone look neat and different from other phones
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- ExFat
- Tkq
- 16 Aug 2019
Just sold my Samsung S8+ because I simply hate the curved screen. They make all these pretty glass phones, than you have to hide them all away in a case because that prettiness makes them so fragile. And until they can make a truly scratch-proof screen, they shouldn't make a screen that cannot be protected properly! Just bought a Huawei Mate 10 Pro, works and looks great. LOVE the flat screen. Everything I wanted from Samsung but it wasn't to be. Now Huawei look to be sticking the curved screens on their phones too, might have to buy an iPhone next time...*shudder*.
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- Anonymous
- X3$
- 31 Jul 2019
I'll only buy flat screen phones. Any phones with curved edge is automatically out of my consideration.
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- John
- NTF
- 27 Jul 2019
I loved Samsung phones. As a head household of the family, I am the one who decides which new phones we will buy for every few years. After we bought Samsung S7 edge phones a few years ago, we regretted so much since we could not get any case that didn't lift up the tempered glass. After that, we never buy any phone with the edge. Samsung lost its royal customers.
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- Super
- j}f
- 25 Jul 2019
EK, 02 Jul 2019I hate curved screen edges too. I also hate having the scr... moreCRT TV's have been curving corners for decades and you want to complain about this now lol
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- EK
- 0pf
- 02 Jul 2019
I hate curved screen edges too.
I also hate having the screen corners rounded off. You wouldnt do this on a television (they probably will one day), so why do it on a smartphone. It clips the corners off video, slightly reduces viewing area. Fashion over functionality these days.
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- Sam
- mK4
- 27 Jun 2019
Plz companies, respect your users and give options for those who don't like or hate curved screens, curved screen may looks cool for some people but on daily use it's really annoying for the eye, also physically while holding the phone especially in one hand, and now most of high performance flagship phones are curved, for example i like the
specifications of the one plus 7 pro but i will never think about getting it as it's curved, if i want a flat screen i will have to go to the regular one plus 7, and so for huawei p30 pro/Mate 20 pro, Galaxy S+.
i used samsung S series phones for about 5 years but now stopped buying samsung because of the curved screens. now the only companies i know that make their highest performance flagship phones with flat screens are LG, Google, Xiaomi, Sony, OPPO, Nokia and Vivo but actually I'm not a fun of their phones, now I'm thinking of switching to Iphone
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- samgrom
- nI2
- 02 Mar 2019
I hate curved phones and stopped buying samsung
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- Person
- c}H
- 28 Oct 2018
This is not a real curved phone. It just has curved edges. Real curved phones are phones like the LG FLex 2.
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- shinmax
- Kg%
- 12 Sep 2018
curve is just marketing strategy and easy to break when accidentally fall....and when you put case guard it will become flat hahaha...... i still go on flat screen. yeah..