A recent patent application is suggesting that Google is going to replace the notch with an under-display front-facing camera in future Pixel phones.

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    1 year ago

    Notch? I have the pixel 6 and its barely a small circle, don’t even notice it because it fits perfectly in the upper bar.

    A notch I would consider those ungastly iphone notches which take over 15% of your upper screen space.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t even know that it’s there either… please don’t fuck up the selfie camera.

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      To be honest, if the camera was positioned in the average place where a person’s eyes would be in a video call, then we’d finally have eye-to-eye conversations.

      But as usual, I want to be able to tell where my camera is, so that I can put some black tape on it.

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        People usually end up looking at their own preview anyway, instead of whomever they are calling

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          1 year ago

          I started disabling my own view during zoom meetings because I found myself always looking at myself lol

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        1 year ago

        Don’t they already have a solution for that? Not sure about Android but I remember FaceTime having an option to make it look like you’re looking into the camera instead of down to the center.

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    I feel indifferent about this, on one hand its great to have even a tiny bit of screen real-estate back, on the other hand I expect the quality to look awful unless there’s been a major development with under display cameras.

    Personally I think I prefer the display cutout or pop-up cameras until they improve the quality.

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    OnePlus 7 had a Camera that popped out the top. I’d have that. I rarely if ever use front camera. Most gir apps that need facial recognition

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      Problem with that is it’s a movable part, and with movable parts it’s prone to break. Unless they can make that super durable… I liked it when it came out. I was tempted to buy it.

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        I used mine for three years, and gave it to a friend who is still using it. It works flawlessly. They really should have kept it. I LOVED it from a privacy perspective.

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    After comparing old sensors from an older Pixel with a top bezel vs new sensors that are under the display.

    I prefer more sensors/peripherals that are not under the display.

    Especially for the ambient light sensor.

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      I think it’s a tech that will still need a few more generations to mature, but I don’t mind a worse quality selfie camera since I rarely use it. I personally would enjoy the more screen real estate, but tbh I currently see nothing wrong with hole punches. If anything, I think the Pixel 5 had the best hole punch location off to the corner.

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        I personally prefer the (extremely ugly) iPhone notch with better sensors, than under the screen. Apple does very well despite of prioritizing this.

        My preference over a notch is still a thin bezel like in the Pixel 3.

        I prefer this over aesthetics. Especially after putting a pretty phone on a case. (The case already takes away all the aesthetics).

        I was never touching the brightness settings in the older nexus/pixels and I really miss that. They were much better catching and distinguishing different low light levels. I also compared the Pixel 4 Vs 5 using devcheck tool to test the ambient light sensor, and the under screen sensor can’t see shit at night.

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    Images from the Samsung ones still look bad, not sure why we’d want this for like 1% more screen

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    Well, or seems like quality of selfies on Pixels will keep going down.

    My 2XL is still unmatched to this day.

    Pixel 3 was probably peek selfie, but I haven’t owned one of those