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LG's Upcoming 'G7 ThinQ' Smartphone To Feature Almost-Bezel-Less Display With Notch, Launch On May 2nd (9to5google.com)
Earlier this morning, LG announced in a blog post that it will be hosting an event on May 2nd in New York City, where it would unveil its upcoming "LG G7 ThinQ" Android smartphone, with a public event in Korea on May 3rd. While LG has yet to confirm any other details of the phone in this post, we do have a pretty good idea as to what this flagship smartphone will feature thanks to some recently-leaked renders courtesy of Android Headlines. 9to5Google reports: This latest shot of the phone gives us a clear look at the design on the front and back. Up front, there's the same notched display we saw at MWC with questionably thick bezels on the bottom and top. With those bezels and the notch, users are undoubtedly going to be questioning LG's design choices this time around. There's also a glass back that comes in several colors with a fingerprint sensor and vertically oriented camera in tow. According to the report, LG will be launching the phone in Aurora Black, Platinum Grey, Moroccan Blue, Moroccan Blue (Matte), and Raspberry Rose, but it's unclear which markets those colors will be available in.
Apple has been trying to sue Samsung for "slavishly cop[ing] a combination of several elements of the Apple Product Configuration Trade Dress". It's still tied up in courts and apparently LG feels they can sell a lot of phones before this is resolved
And I think "slavish" is fair when you copy the worst features of a device.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
... applies!!
With bezels like that, why the FUCK do they need the notch?! This is a smartphone design cargo cult.
Seriously. Have S7 with the screen that curves at the edges and the POS keeps thinking I'm poking the screen.
Man, does anyone actually want thinner phones? I still want a modern version of a Fujitsu F-07C, and make it TWICE as thick for 5x+ the battery(removable) life.
Ignoring licensing, I doubt any mass produced phone costs a manufacturer more than $50 to make.. These things are stamped out... Add keyboards and physical features increases the costs somewhat.
I wonder, have we reached the point in cell phone evolution where in your next phone, you ask not "what's the next marginally cool feature", but instead, "to what extent does this equipment and OS protect my info and perform they way I think it should"?
To me, it seems like the industry, and more importantly, we as consumers (well, the ones who have owned a few smartphones by now), are reaching this point of maturity.
It's the same flat interface-style cr*p we had before when MS introduced Windows Phone and everybody at corps fell in love with it even if customers hated it. So next hideous iteration is notch. Do what deranged leaders do!
I don't need a thinner phone. And the last thing I want is a phone that I can't hold in my hand without accidentally touching the screen on the edges.
Getting old and my memory is fading.
I recall going to the AH website housing said TFA yet I don't remember what it was about. All I know is shortly after I stumbled upon a different article about Blackberry Athena. OMFG drool.. Looks eerily like the type of phone I've always wanted.
If only they would release an "insecure" version that would run LineageOS with removable batteries... Would so buy one assuming I ever remember where I left my wallet.
Now we ALL get to enjoy a jagged viewport in landscape orientation.
At least it's not as horrifying as the time Apple's use of glossy displays on their laptops convinced display manufacturers that ALL displays should have a glossy finish. (Hope you like glare.)
The ThinQ is supposed to be 7.3mm thick - as thin as the iPhone 8. But they didn't show the courage of Apple and they kept the headphone jack. I guess their engineers are just not courageous enough to make internal parts bigger so you have to axe the jack...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
The product itself, the so-called smartphone, is a finished product. There is nothing left to innovate, instead it is now in the phase of incremental improvements and arbitrary design differences. Handset makers have saddled themselves with a marketing apparatus which relies on hyping innovations and are therefore forced to try selling these kinds of changes as "revolutionary innovations".
The whole idea that you could build a business plan around "innovation" is absurd and goes along way to illustrate whats wrong with SV and start-up culture. That, and the idea that "changing the world" is always good no matter what, which is completely insane.
Notch? That is the stupidest thing I've seen, right after replacing the headphone jack with closed junk.
Pass.
... means no sale. Yawn.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
hardly matters.
Where is the technical content in this topic?
Forget about the $1100 iShit you don't even want and just look at the thing. To me the bezels look small. Why act as crybabies over something so inconsequential.
Also, a phone with notch and jack is better than a phone with no notch and no jack.
no one told them it’s bezels OR a notch, not both.
They will have holes instead
Samsung already has a patent for screen holes for cameras, sensors, buttons, etc.
That notch can go plough itself
...you are in the market for an original spec Motorola Razr.
Not really buying another LG phone with the craptastic aftermarket support they give. The Android version you see at launch is quite possible in most cases to be the only one it gets officially
Today yet another smartphone was announced that is minutely different to all the other thousands of smartphones. Sources say that it even comes in a variety of colours, which have been given vanity names by the marketing department as there is nothing else to differentiate it.
Well, yes ,this is totally news. The articles now are the adverts, I see. Slashdot is dead.
FFS! and "because apple did it" isn't a valid response.
Try listening to your customers...
Like, LG brought out a watch that has a fully circular display -- no flat tyre. And then they do this...
That is probably what is meant with a "top notch" smartphone
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If this thing bombs because the notch is stupid, LG will probably say "I knew we should have taken the headphone jack out. If only we were courageous."
What about starting innovating by removing the unsightly notch? Anybody can come up with a phone with almost no bezel and a notch. Are you so unimaginative that the no bezel - no notch combination is beyond your capabilities?
Another phone copying the competition. Wake me up when this cool new slider phone is on the market.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".