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LG's Upcoming Smartphone G6 Will Have 5.7-inch QHD+ Display Featuring 18:9 Aspect Ratio (koreaherald.com)
Song Su-hyun, reporting for The Korea Herald: LG Electronics' upcoming flagship smartphone will have a 5.7-inch Quad HD liquid crystal display panel with a ratio of 18:9, LG Display said on Tuesday. LG Electronics confirmed it will be the G6 smartphone slated for launch next month. The new display panel, dubbed "QHD+," will be the world's first 18:9 QHD LCD, according to LG Display. The 18:9 ratio will provide users with greater immersion than previous displays and allow consumers to multitask by using the dual-screen feature.
Since Honeycomb, Google has insisted on Android supporting on-screen navigation buttons (home, back, app list) instead of using physical buttons. I've noticed that when an app is displaying 16:9 content, these buttons have to be overlaid on top, obscuring part of the content.
18:9 would allow 16:9 content to be displayed full-size with these buttons placed to the side, no overlay. Calling it 18:9 makes it obvious the screen is slightly wider than 16:9. If you call it 2:1, that may not be obvious to people who don't know off the top of their head that 16:9 is a 1.78 aspect ratio.