MR45, 24 Mar 2020The Mate 20 Pro's front design is better looking than this one!I understand that some donr like the notch style, but I'm no big fan of the over sized cutouts, samsung has these cut out very small on there S20 series, why cant Huawei get the same.
I would have accepted the neat notch on the Mate 30 Pro.
Anonymous, 24 Mar 2020I don't know about you pal, but I am waiting for the Find X2 pro to launch in my country.
Wa... moreDon't ever buy any of the S20 series they are the worst phone in years - totally over priced garbage and the camera quality is sh't. My Note 8 takes better photos than the S20+..
I will buy the Find X2 Pro but when can it be bought? I'm from Denmark.
Emeline Shaw, 24 Mar 2020Sadly, I think you're right. Apple is notoriously slow at changing their smartphone designs..
... moreI don't know about you pal, but I am waiting for the Find X2 pro to launch in my country.
Wanted to upgrade to S20 ultra, but it is too expensive and lackluster compared to expectations.
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2020Ugliest notch on a phone.
I bet, they still stick to that ugly design in 2020. Sadly, I think you're right. Apple is notoriously slow at changing their smartphone designs..
I wouldn't hold my breath though.. I think in 2021 or 2022 they'll do away with the notch but in 2020 they will keep, albeit in a smaller version.
I really have great problems atm. I recently bought an S20+ and returned it 2 days later because of poor performance and camera quality (even after updates) and my Note 8 still takes better photos than the S20+.. I wanted to change to iPhone but they have that ugly Notch, Huawei has no Google Services and Pixel is total garbage except for their camera..
So now I don't know what to do.
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2020Ugliest notch on a phone. I bet, they still stick to that ugly design in 2020. Pixel 3XL? No they already backtracked and gave Pixel 4 a forehead.
Emeline Shaw, 23 Mar 2020Because the iPhone notch is symmetrical - this P40 cut-out is not.Ugliest notch on a phone.
I bet, they still stick to that ugly design in 2020.
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2020How is it better when it takes out a whole chunk of the top screen? At least here it's less o... moreI am not an Apple fan, I don't really like Apple stuff and have little experience with them, but while at first I thought the Notch was stupid, I looked at how iPhones works, and well, I was surprised to discover that basically the iPhone X Notch was pure genius !
Basically, on iPhone the top part of the display only have so much informations to show, there are really the bare minimum, and notifications aren't displayed there, meaning if you squeeze those informations a little on the sides of the display, there is just a big empty space on top which have no purposes (as apps that aren't in fullscreen can't get to this statut bar), lets just take two images to explain what I mean :
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNeTCpdWsAEFUPL.jpg
Here you see an iPhone 8 Plus next to an iPhone X, look at this picture how in an app like Twitter, rather than displaying the statut bar + the app as the 8 Plus does, the X only display on the full display the app and the statut bar take advantage of the notch.
On iPhone think about the notch not as something in the display, but rather a bezel with two little displays on the side made to show statut bar.
While the picture still show the advantages, lets still take another one :
https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/3dG6dNlvrU66MA1gW-ssDxmrfRE=/756x425/2017/10/31/a22348c2-6d9b-4c45-9b4d-e5e2d1ce0344/iphone-x-comparisons-01.jpg
As you can see the iPhone X is barely bigger than the iPhone 8 and quite smaller than the 8 Plus, but because of the almost fullscreen design the usable display (so not counting the notch) is bigger than the iPhone 8 Plus's whole display.
This notch incorporate a LOT of sensors as you can see here :
https://i.insider.com/5cf92f2711e205408f612703?width=1100&format=jpeg
Now on Android this is totally different and a notch that big is simply stupid, not only the first Android Smartphone with notch post iPhone X had a giant notch, but none used the available space to do anything remotely interesting, no smartphone with a notch (except for the Huawei Mate 30 AFAIK) ever had any 3D facial recognition tech, there was only few things, a camera, sometime two, a speaker and sometime ambiant light and proximity sensor, that's a really poor density optimisation, more importantly, it took space on top of the display where both statut and notification area are, which is stupid as the whole experience on Android rely on them to know what happen.
Ugly or not, the Notch on iPhones is pure genius, it is about using dead space, removing bezel and justifying it by loading the notch with lots of awesome and useful sensors.
On Android it was just a stupid attempt to copy Apple, but rather than copying the goal of the notch, they simply copied the appearance...And what make it particularly stupid, is because the iPhone's notch is a functional design rather than an aesthetic one, so copying its appearance and not its feature/use/idea is a really bad choice, and even more when coupled with the Android's necessity to have lots of available space on this are of the display.
What COULD have been smart would be if they integrated the statut bar around the notch and the notification bar bellow it, THAT would have been a functional design and it would allow for more notification icons, which isn't a luxury in Android.
What happened is they quickly realized they made a mistake and rather than trying to use it at their advantages (statut bar thingy) they tried to make it smaller on the next iterations, until the teardrop version came, which represent the smallest iteration of the notch...
Which also removed all sensors and only kept one camera, which goes on the opposite way of the idea of the notch, they literally tried to copy something that is a perfect exemple of space management and sensors density to something that basically is here only for a single camera...
Then, since peoples quickly realized that it was a stupid thing, they thought, "well, we already removed a part of the display, so why not trim it down and just lets a little hole for the camera as we are already here anyway" rather than finding a real practical use for the notch or revert back to tiny bezels which they anyway developed for the lower part of the phone and were now able to implement on the top area.
The Notch on Android could had many use, they could even have used a tiny internal (white?) projector to display icons on the glass (think car's hud) of the notch to basically have it being used as a notification/statut bar after all, it would have looked really awesome.
In short, the Apple design of the notch, regardless of its appearance is remarquable, while then Android one only made us loose a lot of sensors and various tech...
Notification light must be present in Huawei P40 Family. Notification light is simple and useful. All phones have it since last century.
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2020How is it better when it takes out a whole chunk of the top screen? At least here it's less o... moreBecause the iPhone notch is symmetrical - this P40 cut-out is not.
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2020No way is the iPhone notch better than that. It's ugly but not close to iPhone notch ugly.You are mistaken.
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2020Why they are allowing using face unlock for paypents? It's unsecure a similar looking siblings... moreSupporting a feature is not the same as requiring it. My bank's app has an opt-in setting for Face ID; you have to explicitly choose to allow it.
IpsDisplay, 23 Mar 2020Seeing that notification lights are basically deleted Can these manufacturers at least mak... moreYou can make the edge display glow for notifications.
i love huawei phone more and more
without Google service uts seem sooo cool and fast keep working huawei
Why can't these brands just put on a single zoom lens on a good large sensor instead of using so many cameras.
Emeline Shaw, 23 Mar 2020Yes way, the iPhone notch is better and the ugly pill cut-out is more ugly.How is it better when it takes out a whole chunk of the top screen? At least here it's less obtrusive even though it's still an eye sore.
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2020No way is the iPhone notch better than that. It's ugly but not close to iPhone notch ugly.Yes way, the iPhone notch is better and the ugly pill cut-out is more ugly.
Emeline Shaw, 23 Mar 2020That cut out is the worst one yet. Even the iPhone notch is better than this.. Sometimes I won... moreNo way is the iPhone notch better than that. It's ugly but not close to iPhone notch ugly.
Seeing that notification lights are basically deleted
Can these manufacturers at least make the punch hole acts as the notification led
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