Weekly poll: are screen holes better than teardrop notches?
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- Anonymous
- v3B
- 29 Nov 2018
Meh I like bezels. Something for my HUMAN fingers to hold on to without smudging the screen or blocking my video watching experience all the damn time
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- AnonD-737741
- 6mB
- 28 Nov 2018
How about no selfie camera? Given the direction things are going, selfie cameras should die out sooner or later. There are alternatives in place, such as a second screen on the back.
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- Leo
- sfU
- 28 Nov 2018
Why isn’t a slider option in this poll? Vivo and Oppo are doing the right thing by putting the selfie cam in the slider.
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- Leo
- sfU
- 28 Nov 2018
Espenegger72, 27 Nov 2018No need for a selfie camera. It ain´t so hard to take... moreAnd what about the millions of people who video call everyday? That’s why selfie cams have not gone away. We still need to see the screen while facing the camera in FaceTime
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- Notchness monster
- 615
- 28 Nov 2018
Phone makers are crazy for notch. But the problem is that it's not the notch or the size of the screen or the bezels or the resolution of the selfie cam. It's the hubris of the pepole.
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- Anonymous
- Kme
- 27 Nov 2018
musicbono, 27 Nov 2018Why not ditch the selfie camera and include a mirror at the... moreExactly, with all the flagship with fragile glass houses, why not a mirror back?
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- kurtdcute
- JBv
- 27 Nov 2018
maybe a hole will work better than stupid senseless notch except iphone there's a reason for there ugly notch unlike copycut android phones
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- Espenegger72
- xhq
- 27 Nov 2018
No need for a selfie camera. It ain´t so hard to take a selfie by turning your phone but I guess youngsters want everything be so easy.
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- Studmuffin
- sxr
- 27 Nov 2018
you guys all know that samsung really hates the notch thing.. thats why there will be "new
innovation" coming from them.. and it's wonderful!
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- Anonymous
- 7AH
- 27 Nov 2018
I honestly dont think we need selfie cams to make holes in our photos and videos.
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- ToonToon
- t@J
- 27 Nov 2018
I prefer slim bezels with camera, sensors, earpiece with stereo support. and bottom bezel should have a always active finger print sensor not underscreen.
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- musicbono
- DkW
- 27 Nov 2018
Why not ditch the selfie camera and include a mirror at the back?.
Or just go selfie less.??
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- viveksubhash
- HsE
- 27 Nov 2018
For what it's worth notches are alright.. If you think of them as extensions of the screen into bezels.. Rather than an intrusion into the screen... As usual if apps ignore the notch and only use the rest of the screen for its use and leave the notch to the system to display status and notifications.. That will be the best scenario
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- Finophile
- 7tm
- 27 Nov 2018
Rdmkr, 26 Nov 2018adding a few millimeters of bezel to make space for useful ... moreagreed
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- Anonymous
- 6jr
- 27 Nov 2018
screenratio, 27 Nov 2018just put a slim bezel where the camera and speaker-earpiece... moreThere is no such thing as slim bezels. They are all thigh.
Note 9 could 150mm and be perfectly pocketable if they were to use a teardrop camera. But instead the went for the whole 160mm making it the tallest Note to date and the most uncomfortable to use. It was probably its biggest problem. A notch could had saved it.
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- Anonymous
- 6jr
- 27 Nov 2018
Anonymous, 27 Nov 2018the diagonal screen length and aspect ratio measure the scr... moreIrrelevant. I just said that bezeled phones are bigger than notched phones of the same screen size. So bezels lose (once again).
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- Anonymous
- 6jr
- 27 Nov 2018
Anonymous, 27 Nov 2018you don't have understood. I am not taking about bezeled ph... moreBut not in a way that matters. A teardrop notch is taking a place of the screen that literally has nothing useful going (center of the notification area). So it is debatable how much smaller screen you actually take. The sides of the top screen (where all the useful info is) is still intact.
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- Anon
- KAd
- 27 Nov 2018
am not sure how much the strength of the glass will reduce if we drive a hole in it... am sure jerryRigEverything will have a field day with it.
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- Anonymous
- Kme
- 27 Nov 2018
Anonymous, 27 Nov 2018You measure this wrongly. We do not hold screen in our hand... morethe diagonal screen length and aspect ratio measure the screen, not the body of the phone.