Cool…but remember Apple, we still have to hold these things with our hands. I had a Samsung with curved edges for two years and it was a bit of a disaster to use one handed.
I don’t want to kink shame the tech press, but we got to talk about the bezel fetish. These are functional devices and they need to interact with a human body, not just slowly rotate on a pedestal during a reveal event.
I guess we have no choice but to see this through. Achieve zero bezel, the press will finally be able to finish. And the the customer complaints will drive us back to sanity over the next few generations.
Yeah on the topic of phones I’m less concerned about the bezel being thin. I’m pretty whatever about it. So long as they don’t wrap the display around the edge like some Androids, I don’t really care.
But I use the iPad Pro as a drawing device and when you draw on a piece of paper, it’s pretty impractical to draw to the edge. Same is true with a digital device. You need a bit of margin and in this case that’s the bezel. Having an edge to edge display for an iPad isn’t doing people any favors. It’s just some dumb bullet point for a keynote. I didn’t buy a 12.9 iPad for the small footprint. I’d buy a bigger one if they made it.
I really do think the bezels on the current models is about as slim as is practical in terms of using these things to draw.
I had a OnePlus 8 for about 5 hours before returning it. The curved/edge less screen may look cool in a showroom, but it sucks for actual use. Also, as a dedicated dark mode user, I couldn’t stand the two vertical glare bars where the screen curve started. Especially in office lighting.
Cool…but remember Apple, we still have to hold these things with our hands. I had a Samsung with curved edges for two years and it was a bit of a disaster to use one handed.
I don’t want to kink shame the tech press, but we got to talk about the bezel fetish. These are functional devices and they need to interact with a human body, not just slowly rotate on a pedestal during a reveal event.
I guess we have no choice but to see this through. Achieve zero bezel, the press will finally be able to finish. And the the customer complaints will drive us back to sanity over the next few generations.
Post zero-bezel clarity.
“what the hell is wrong with me? Why did I do this?” - apple
Yeah on the topic of phones I’m less concerned about the bezel being thin. I’m pretty whatever about it. So long as they don’t wrap the display around the edge like some Androids, I don’t really care.
But I use the iPad Pro as a drawing device and when you draw on a piece of paper, it’s pretty impractical to draw to the edge. Same is true with a digital device. You need a bit of margin and in this case that’s the bezel. Having an edge to edge display for an iPad isn’t doing people any favors. It’s just some dumb bullet point for a keynote. I didn’t buy a 12.9 iPad for the small footprint. I’d buy a bigger one if they made it.
I really do think the bezels on the current models is about as slim as is practical in terms of using these things to draw.
Hopefully they add palm rejection for the edges 🤞
I had a OnePlus 8 for about 5 hours before returning it. The curved/edge less screen may look cool in a showroom, but it sucks for actual use. Also, as a dedicated dark mode user, I couldn’t stand the two vertical glare bars where the screen curve started. Especially in office lighting.
LiPo is also lighter. So I guess they’re also looking to reduce the mass of the phone.