• Pons_Aelius
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    498 months ago

    Is thin bezels a thing that anyone, outside handset reviewers, actually care about?

    • @holycrap@lemm.ee
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      148 months ago

      The people tasked with making them smaller care. To the extent that it impacts their paycheck anyway.

    • MelodiousFunk
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      8 months ago

      I happen to like having the edges of my fingers or hand touch the screen inadvertently every time I pick up my phone. Bonus points if it’s unlocked and something unintended happens as a result.

    • @tahoe@lemmy.world
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      58 months ago

      As a small phone enjoyer, I do! The thinner the bezels, the better the screen to body ratio is. It also looks better imo

    • @KidsTryThisAtHome@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      And bigger batteries, and headphone jacks, and SD card slots, and front facing speakers, and the magnetic stripe thing for Samsung pay. I miss all that shit, and even the ir blaster for that matter. Phones used to be so cool, like I seriously don’t care if my phone is a few nanometers thicker if it actually makes use of the space

        • @funnystuff97@lemmy.world
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          58 months ago

          That’s seriously my top contender for my next phone right now, and it’s a model more than a year old. But it’s the only 1 of 2 available phones on the market with 5g, a removable battery, and an SD card slot. Fucking baffles me.

          • @Critical_Insight@feddit.uk
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            28 months ago

            Yeah but unlike Fairphone this actually comes with a headphone jack aswell. It was an easy decision for me since there literally was no alternative. Been happy with it so far.

        • Pons_Aelius
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          88 months ago

          But the battery cannot be replaced without huge effort and they will stop updates after two years…so it will be e-waste in 24 months anyway.

          Just in time to buy the S26.

  • @dinckelman@lemmy.world
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    178 months ago

    Honestly speaking, I don’t want a thinner phone with a thinner bezel. My current Note 10 is unusable without a case, because it’s like a stick of butter. It is so incredibly difficult to hold, and the curved display really is not helping it at all

  • @SuperSpecialNickname
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    8 months ago

    I think small bezels are really annoying. When you put a case that has a lip around the edges it’s really problematic when you need to tap something on the edges of the screen. Plus I keep accidentally touching screen when holding the phone.

  • ryan213
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    138 months ago

    I love thin phones! It makes them feel like regular phones once I put a case on them. Lol

  • picnic
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    108 months ago

    Doesn’t impress me much. My bezels have been slim enough at least since note 9.

  • MrSnowflake
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    48 months ago

    Lol I remember the release of the iPhone X where the world was amazed by the thinness of the bezels. Those were still thicker than the bezels on the Galaxy S8.

    • @notenoughbutter
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      28 months ago

      yeah, but the s8,s9 had thick top and bottom bezels instead of the notch+uniformly thin bezels on the iphone

  • gordonthefatengine
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    38 months ago

    Nice. But I’d rather have an SD card slot, headphone jack, and a bigger, removable battery. Seriously, I don’t give a fuck otherwise.

  • @yool_ooloo@lemmy.world
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    28 months ago

    I’m on a Galaxy S7’edge’ that I really need to migrate away from. I don’t want the foldable, and I’m not into iphones. How good/bad is the Galaxy S24 in this situation?