Yeah I actually think Huawei's skin isn't too bad. Their stock applications are generally very well designed even if icon wise the skin can look pretty ugly, but thankfully can theme the icons to look nicer and more stock.
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Aspect Ratio Confusion
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Yeah I actually think Huawei's skin isn't too bad. Their stock applications are generally very well designed even if icon wise the skin can look pretty ugly, but thankfully can theme the icons to look nicer and more stock.
I wish they went with the mi mix layout for s8. I would be fine with the wider size.
THIS would have impressed me out of Samsung. I can't wait for xioami to start selling in the states.
On a web page the text has to end somewhere. I'm curious if the narrower aspect ratio functionally hurts the web browsing experience by chopping off text and making for narrower word wrapping. I know there is the positive of landscape web browsing being wider, but most of my web browsing is done in portrait mode.
The point in the taller displays is that you can fit more on the screen at once, which is especially needed when typing as the keyboard covers a good portion of the screen. You don't need a taller display on tablets because you already have plenty of room above the keyboard since the screen is so much bigger and the text is not proportionally bigger.
The word wrapping is the same. Don't think of it as the screen is narrower, think if it as the screen is taller. Left to right word wrapping is the same, but more lines will fit vertically.
Precisely!!!
Screen real estate has long been a fight for OEMs since touch interfaces came in.
I remember old touch phones (Sony Ericsson Pseries, WM Pocket PCs etc...) requiring a Stylus not just for precision but to fit as much content as possible.
When we moved to finger touch it became very difficult, and OEMs have been making Devices with ever larger Displays with higher DPI and allowing more and more DPI adjustments, Samsung especially have focused on fitting more content since the Note 5, allowing DPI adjustments. I personally used to adjust my phones to have the smallest fonts possible so I could fit as much content as possible.
This move to 18:9 in my opinion is brilliant, put together with a High Res display, you can use small fonts, have great quality text and still fit more content. Will be great for Texting, reading Blogs, Documents and eBooks.
The example with a Text, Conversation, Keyboard and Video is a showcase of just how many changes can be fitted in that screen, not that everyone will do it.
People really need to stop taking everything so literally, when tech companies show off particular features it's to give you an idea of what can be done, not that YOU will do it .
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The S8+ feels like a ergonomic wonder compared to my iPhone 7+. It's sublime feeling.
Mind you, in all things there's compromise. So find your priorities and go from there.
Mind you, in all things there's compromise. So find your priorities and go from there.
Not quite sure how this thread got resurrected, I would never find older threads to comment on. Guess my searching skills need polishing.
Anywho, with these tallish androids nowadays what is the alternative to iphone’s reachability feature?
Anywho, with these tallish androids nowadays what is the alternative to iphone’s reachability feature?
On the S8 you swipe up diagonally from the corner with your thumb and the screen shrinks.
The problem with ratios is that as the length gets bigger, it becomes fatter and taller. You reach a limit of width for your hand, at which point, going longer (and increasing the ratio) is the only option.
I have big hands, so i prefer width over length, but girls struggle with it if it is too wide as they normally have smaller hands then men. Once you reach a certain length you need two hands to reach the top without straining yourself.
I have big hands, so i prefer width over length, but girls struggle with it if it is too wide as they normally have smaller hands then men. Once you reach a certain length you need two hands to reach the top without straining yourself.
There are so many crude jokes to be made withing this one post it had to be intentional
It absolutely does. It also makes typing on the virtual keyboard more difficult in portrait view, which most people use almost exclusively outside photos, videos and games. But as others have mentioned, making the display wider makes the phone difficult to put in a pocket as well as hold.
I think the narrow and tall bezelless designs of this year work well for smaller phones but start failing in bigger ones. One-handed use becomes more difficult as reaching both the top (notifications) and bottom (on-screen controls) becomes difficult depending on the size of your hands. For my hands the 5.5" 16:9 on my OP3 is about the maximum size I would be comfortable with.
I'm hoping next year or the one after we get these foldable OLED phones that fold out to tablets as that solves a lot of the issues we face using phones.