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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
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.
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.
I like a thin phone to an extent.
It makes it easier to use one handed (though I'd actually prefer a 4.75 or so inch phone that was slightly thicker, it's just that nobody seems to want to make cheap phone's under 5.2 inches).
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That's what I want too:
4.75" screen (or thereabouts)
Micro SD Card slot
Removable battery (looks like they're gone for good though)
Nobody seems to want to make me one, however.
I just want a phone that will impress my peer group. Even if that is wafer thin phone with three notches around the screen, and no plugs not even for a charging port.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
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.
This guy Geek Culture(tm)'s
I can't manage to keep my phones long enough for the removable battery to matter.
I'd love a 4.75 inch, 720P screen, practically 0 bezel top, left, right, finger print bottom (slot speaker and camera on the top, no notch).
Basically, I want an older iPhone that runs android and costs under $250.00.
I don't care about SD slot (if the phone is 64 gig), headphone jack, or removable battery.
Sony makes some nice small phones, but they're all quite expensive.
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... means no sale. Yawn.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
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's what I have currently.
Prolonged use hurts my hand from reaching to the top left.
A menu button at the bottom of the screen could fix my issue with it.
I miss the menu and search buttons of the olden days.
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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
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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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".