Curved Screen Phone
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- mg33
Why is this a thing that any manufacturer is pursuing?
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/…
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The potential benefit of this screen technology isn't quite clear yet, but Samsung is touting a new feature called "Round Interaction," which allows you to look at information such as missed calls, battery life, and the date and time when you tilt it on a flat surface with the screen off. Samsung also claims that switching between home screens will feel like one continuous transition, and has worked on new tilt- and tap-based interactions for the music and photos apps.Stop the world: tilt phone on a table to see stuff? Is this a joke?
The ONLY benefit of a curved screen would be how it fits in your pocket against a leg. I wouldn't doubt that at the end of the day, that ends up being the main selling point. LOL
- SteveJobs0
- this is what i thought when i first heard the rumorstrooperbill
- same heredbloc
- if they could combine the flask AND the phone, I'd be all setJosev
- BusterBoy0
Samsung will get anything to market that has the slightest chance of success. Also has the effect of killing Apple's innovation aura...whenever there's a chance of beating Apple to market, they'll do it.
Has worked pretty well for them in recent times.
- Nathan_Adams0
Samsung is becoming the corporate equivalent of those douchebags that race to post "first" comments.
- inteliboy0
- same size as the s4 isn't it?sine
- perfect sizeset
- yeah. i have an s4. the size is fine.sine
- no its 5.7in screen so more note 3 ish
trooperbill - A4!
_me_ - no way to not look like an asshole holding that giant thing up to your head.CygnusZero4
- <get a bluetooth.sarahfailin
- chrisRG0
If this was an Apple release, Apple stores would have millions of people queuing right now.
- ESKEMA0
I get that this is more like an experiment, but isn't the point of curved screens to adapt to odd shaped devices?
Samsung didn't have an odd shaped device to put it in, so they shaped the phone in an odd fashion, to put the display in it..
looks nice actually. would like to try what it feels like to use.
- drgs0
thumb moves in that radius
- Opposite actuallymonospaced
- think he's right, monodoesnotexist
- I think we both are. Thumb can arc concave or convexmonospaced
- natural motion of a socket joint is a radius similar to the phone's curve. doesn't curve the other way unless you rotate your wristdoesnotexist
- but, like, who cares.doesnotexist
- ORAZAL0
- I can imagine all people looking for flat surfaces to navigate. Why the hell i want to have my hand behind all my phone contents?jpm
- fuck where is my phonecannonball1978
- Q: "Why the hell i want to have my hand behind all my phone "
A: To hold itORAZAL - You can see if someone is sneaking up on you.boobs
- ZOOP0
It's out in South Korea. Let them be the test market.
- monospaced0
"It'll be released tomorrow in 'Luxury Brown] for 1.09 million won (about $1,013)"
- Friggin' news said it came out there todayZOOP
- that was a quote from the OP's article link from late last nightmonospaced
- Reuters says it's out, so now we wait... tick tock =PZOOP
- doesnotexist0
cool.
- monospaced0
Curved is a way to make a larger screen feel narrower.
- good point, more display fitting in a smaller (asian) hand. ahhhh now I get it lolZOOP
- it's a huge phone alreadymonospaced
- yeah it is, basically a cell tabletZOOP
- monospaced0
- big screen: check
curved glass: check
touch interface: checkmonospaced - Fox News?utopian
- whats that shot from Mono?
moldero - Minority Reportmonospaced
- big screen: check
- utopian0
Desperate companies do desperate things!
- hellrod0
The curve needs to go the other way. Fits the face better and simulates a wide screen theatre when horizontal. Samsung's design only fits the pocket better.