Yes that 6.2 inch display is too good to pass up and yes if the iPhone 8 only has a 5.1 inch display then I will either keep the 7 plus or get the 7S plus if the iterative updates are worth it.
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Thats just one month until the release date. Might be another couple of weeks before it starts to ship...so 6 weeks before we get them....
I'm not a fan of the black bars on the sides when watching traditional HD video---reminds me of watch SD video on 16:9 ratio screens. Yes, just a personal preference/pet peeve but still, It would really irritate me after a while.
Same goes for the rounded display corners--not a fan of this latest trend either.
What's a guy gotta do to get a simple, flat, rectangular display? (Said in my best 'Get off my lawn you kids!! grumpy old man voice')
I think there are several of us with you on that. Would love to have a flat S8 and Note 8....I'm not a fan of the black bars on the sides when watching traditional HD video---reminds me of watch SD video on 16:9 ratio screens. Yes, just a personal preference/pet peeve but still, It would really irritate me after a while.
Same goes for the rounded display corners--not a fan of this latest trend either.
What's a guy gotta do to get a simple, flat, rectangular display? (Said in my best 'Get off my lawn you kids!! grumpy old man voice')
In principle same here. But actually maybe those black bars could be turned into something useful. How about housing sliding controls for brightness or sound, or whatever? So you don't have to pull down a menu or fidget with hardware buttons while watching?
Or even just let them be without controls at all! At which point they would become exactly those bezels which some of us miss so much on bezel-less phones because they're actually needed for holding the phone without obstructing the display while watching vids...?
In principle same here. But actually maybe those black bars could be turned into something useful. How about housing sliding controls for brightness or sound, or whatever? So you don't have to pull down a menu or fidget with hardware buttons while watching?
Or even just let them be without controls at all! At which point they would become exactly those bezels which some of us miss so much on bezel-less phones because they're actually needed for holding the phone without obstructing the display while watching vids...?
LG's doing amazing things with the extra space. The camera software features look pretty useful and clever.
Yeah I saw that too, I'm really liking that stuff.
I wasn't that keen on this weird narrow format but the more I think about it, the more cool functionality I see.
The leaked video proves software keys can be customized. At last, the back button can belong on the right side. And by the right side, I mean the left.
Software keys FTW.
Software keys FTW.
God forbid
I might still pick one up to play with it but I'm too invested in Apple to seriously think about switching. I've tried before. Samsung has some great features. Love the theme store. Hate the stupid things like the pop up if I simply want to turn the volume up.
It says on the official invite that it's launching on 29th March. It'd be pretty amazing if they actually did release it straight after the event.
Hate that, too. Luckily, they got rid of that during Nougat update. I think it only warns you once now and you can choose to never warn again, if I remember the Nougat beta correctly.
No that ************ is still there.
Also, what's the word with any potential camera improvements? Will they save it for the S9?
No way... I could've sworn I saw in the Nougat Beta something that god rid of it. It was the Nougat Beta though, so maybe they changed it back for the final build? I could have remembered wrong, too, but I remember being so relieved that was gone cause I hated that useless warning, too.
Ugh, if that's true, that's annoying.
Yeah. And not to make a big deal out of something small but when I connect my phone to my car, the iPhone volume is already pumping a pretty good volume that only needs to be adjusted via car volume. The S7 Edge comes in too low and needs to be adjusted via the phone volume buttons first. When I'm driving the last thing I want to be doing is messing around with not only volume buttons but then a volume warning.
It's little crap like that that keeps me on iOS.
The thing I really like on iOS that android needs to do is iOS remembers the volume level on your Bluetooth devices. So in my car I need the volume full blast on my phone to get normal sound from my stereo, but ok my jaybirds I generally keep it at half volume and the iPhone remembers this. Can't tell you how many times I forget this on my Note and when I connect my jaybirds the music is at full blast in my ears.
And also the battery meter for the Bluetooth device is shown on iOS, nowhere to be found on android.
But that's a little addition. I rather not have that intuitively happen than have a lobotomized Siri. It's all about trade offs.