New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub

Re:New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub by emptyfile on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @03:25PM (#18179052)

Apple made it premium, but phones had notches before them. Sharp and Essential phone come to mind.

Sharp in particular has had fully bezel-less phones for years, I honestly though their camera on the bottom design would be copied way before the weird notch.

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Re:New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub by misterprime on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:25PM (#18179928)

I fondly remember the "2nd screen" of the LG V10 and V20. When I first saw the notch I figured it would be an awesome implementation of LG's 2nd (and 3rd) screen.

I was wrong thought. It's the full screen and part of it is cut out as you can see when watching videos and playing games.

Sad day that it is being copied.

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Re:New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub by ThatPlayer on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @07:51PM (#18180804)

I'm currently still using the V20 and like it, but do think that as the notch gets smaller, you lose the available space for functionality like the LG's second screen.

Of course ideally, the notch gets smaller, not like the Pixel.

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Re:New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub by floatboth on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:44PM (#18180057)

Essential is also rather premium :) but they had a very different notch, very small (just for the camera).

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Re:New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub by notatoad on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:04PM (#18180216)

Essential wanted to be seen as premium, but i don't think they're the ones driving any customer perception of notches being premium.

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