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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.
Also known as 2:1
Most people would simply say 2:1.
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That should be much better
18:9? Did someone miss sixth grade math or is this some odd nomenclature/jargon is the display industry?
Why is it called 18:9, instead of 2:1?
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"The new display is 1 millimeter thick, and the bezel width has been reduced 0.2 millimeter on the sides and 0.54 millimeter on the bottom compared to the company’s previous QHD LCD."
MAN, THAT 0.2mm REALLY SURE DID PISS ME THE FUCK OFF ALWAYS GETTING IN THE WAY... SURE GLAD THEY WERE ABLE TO REMOVE THAT UNNEEDED WASTE AND MAKE THE PHONE SMALLER
So I googled QHD (quad HD) and it has a base aspect ratio of 16:9.Ultra wide QHD has an aspect ratio of 21:9 (note that fraction isn't reduced either). This aspect ratio is in between 18:9. For some reason the smaller dimension seems to have stuck at 9 for QHD. Likely some marketing guy doesn't understand fractions. https://www.google.com/search?...
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Removable battery, SD card, AND a headphone jack. They apparently kept all this for the G5, so that is good news, and hopefully the G6 will be the same.
12:50 - press return.
I'm suprised it isn't OLED.
Counterpoint: It's succeeding for many, many people. However, I do understand the plight. I'm at the other end of the spectrum. I want a flagship with 6" screen and they are putting out at best 5.7". Google Nexus 6/6p/Pixel XL dropped from 6" to 5.7" to 5.5". The regular Pixel at least dropped to 5" for those that want smaller screens.
... leave it at a trade show booth and stuff.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
We definitely have plenty of large phones but there is one thing about LG that makes them stand out.. the LG button placement. If Google would use them for their pixel phone of copy the buttons on the back, that is a phone I could go for.
Again, LG is doing something stupid this year.
Last year they tried modules. They failed. Not that it was a bad idea, but everybody knew this was a one shot deal and that the G6 would not support G5 modules.
This time they do a stupid aspect ratio, which will mean many apps will suck on the G6. You've read it here first: the G7 will revert back to a standard 16:9 ratio like all other Android phones of this year. Developers will rejoice and say they were right in not modifying their app to support the 2:1 ratio of the G6.
Whoopie.
Yawn.
I'm going to wait unit they release the 36:18 aspect ratio version...
Are we running out of letters?
QVGA is quarter not quad.
QCIF is quarter not quad.
qHD is quarter and QHD is quad? Come on! You are doing this deliberately aren't you!
For the teeny weeny phone screens are the place where primarily to enjoy movies.
It's a very nice aspect ratio compared to my laptop's 16:9 ratio. I hear that the aspect ratio of 3:2 is becoming popular, which is what some Chromebooks have, and maybe 4:3, the aspect our eyes can see. The 16:9 ratio came about because it is useful for viewing high aspect ratio movies and seems to be the norm for TV sets, but do folks watch many movies using computer screens compared to TV sets? I guess there was considerable discussion about what the ratio should be for TV sets when the flat panels were to be introduced and the compromise was 16:9.
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So, still only Sony? What a world!
Except the last 3 LG phones all have removable battery, SD card, and headphone jack: G3, G4, G5
Though apparently they have a "bootloop" problem even after battery remove/replace. Never happened to me on the 4 or 5, but I also don't update beyond the factory firmware (I need root).
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Give us a powerful phone, with a screen and a camera. That can survive being dropped. And has a battery with excellent capacity. I don't care how many microns "thin" it is. I don't care if I can attach things to the back of it. I don't care if it has modules that come out of it. I don't care if you make it better by making the UI look like it was puked up by a rainbow eating unicorn.
How about 2880:1440? Oh, whoops, ran out of fingers to count on.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Yeah mine failed. They extended the manufacturer's and purchase warranty to cover it although I expect those are all expired now. I am waiting to hear back on the replacement of my original phone since I purchased it out of the country. It was a defect of one of the earlier batches, and the problem was fixed in the later versions as far as I know (my replacement has been fine).
12:50 - press return.
The comedy Phablet market is saturated, but no-one is making small, quality phones apart from Sony.
I agree. I would really like a small 4"-4.5" display-class in the $200-$250 range. As someone who does not consume media on my phone, I find it infuriating that it is so difficult for companies to even consider that there are people out there who would buy phones like this. The only non-Apple device I have been able to find that even comes close to my requirements is the Sony Xperia compact phones, but at twice the price I would be willing to pay. The iPhone SE is even more expensive, as I recall.
I suppose I could buy something a couple or three years old, but then I want something that works on the newly acquired segments of spectrum in the US to ensure I have good coverage everywhere for voice, text, and wi-fi hotspot/tethering data. That seriously limits the possibilities.
And hollywood pushing for wider, soon enough everyone will be carrying what can be described as glass and aluminum swords.
All you will need is an USB 3 hilt.
Yes, I would like to touch one of these before I buy a replacement. So I am frozen for ANOTHER month or so...
My HTC ONE M8 is dying, battery fatigue. And having never used any Android phone other than an HTC, I'm taking a small leap. A replaceable battery is a key feature, and the G6 probably won't have one, but this feature is hard to find.
Other than that, I'm hoping to leap to the latest CPU and more RAM, but then the Snapdragon 8305 seems to be the high water mark for a while.
So I'm again frozen. feh.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
technically not everything is stone. It depends on how rigorous your definition of stone is. With a sufficiently wide definition, you run the risk of all matter that we have access to on Earth being either from the atmosphere or from rocks, stones, minerals (in geology parlance, everything is a rock). And then we have to ask if carbon and oxygen found in the atmosphere were ever part of a rock, given that volcanoes send out huge amounts of CO2 the answer is yes. Is the argon in our atmosphere from decayed potassium?
You can make transistors without silicon. Most of us know of germanium transistors, but there are more exotic semiconductors such as AlGaAs (aluminium gallium arsenide). And carbon is an interesting semiconductor, although it's rarely considered one. But when carbon is doped properly and put into a crystalline structure it can operate as a diode (and possibly as a useful FET, as the bandgap is large).
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