Samsung touching up ROUNDED, CURVY plastic enhanced MODEL

Re: Curved screen vs curved TFT/LCD panel

If you can't make all the components curved it will probably be thicker overall - can't really see the point on such a small screen and more a case of we could so we did.

"We were too busy thinking if we could we didn't stop to think if we should..."

Re: Curved screen vs curved TFT/LCD panel

You are right. I had the Nexus S and you could see that the actual display panel was flat. There was just a slight curve to the glass covering.

Re: Curved screen vs curved TFT/LCD panel

I can't see the difference on my 'S', but iFixit confirms what you said. But as I mentioned elsewhere, what I like is the screen protection and the smooth contour of the back. REAL pocket friendly.

Re: No discernible utility?

Or help it break better if you put it in your pocket with the concave side out...

It's a strange decision to make: 'flat' is a design that is hard to beat in most things. Curves/bends are best suited to fulfilling a specific purpose. They are nice on a spoon for example, but less that desirable on a knife.

Only if you're

Kate Moss.

Re: No discernible utility?

Damn, that reminds me of when I used to carry a pager. Set it to 'vibrate', strapped it inside my belt, and kept speed dialing.

My S' really does fit nice, with its melted corners. I suspect this on would do as well.

Re: No discernible utility?

Its to replace the fag packet in your rolled up sleeve - A burberry background and you've got a proper chav phone!

Re: Been there, done that.

The Nokia banana phone did not have a flexible display forming the entire front surface of the device. The case was curved, but it had a flat LCD display.

Re: Been there, done that.

Samsung are boasting about the first curved smartphone. That Nokia (my first ever mobile, god I feel old) was many things, but smart wasn't one of them.

Re: Been there, done that.

Good old Nokia 8110.

Re: Pringle, surely?

Cheaper?

Re: Pringle, surely?

A better comparison might be the round teabag, which also had absolutely no practical benefit but was the pivot around which a marketing campaign could be built. It's the sort of stunt which happens when markets reach saturation.

Re: Once upon a time......

because a large proportion of the plebs that buy samsung galaxy eye candy can neither stop smashing said hardened glass nore resist the urge to spend large sums of money for gloating rights?

Re: Once upon a time......

From the Book Of Ledswinger, verses 14-15

14:1 "Then a miracle happened. Someone made displays out of hardened glass. No scratches, no stick on placcy layers, no ruined LCD bits."

14.2 And yay, the people did shout praise and thank god, turning away from Nokia's small but mighty 5800, and the people did make a great feast of burnt offering for the iPhone. But a new plague did spread across the land, when the miracle device did then get dropped but a single cubit onto unfertile earth. In that moment the work of satan was done, and the perfectness of the display was ruined forever.

15:1 The people wailed and rent their garments, and did yet gnash their teeth at the hundred quid plus bill for a new screen and digitiser. The prophets of the people's false idol that was called Apple were thus yet multipled, but the people were deceived still, and laughed yet at the thought of plastic screens.

15:2 Base and cursed with cartoony graphics was the iPhone, yet the people did worship King Steve and did demand yet more of the same. In return for tribute the false king did yet churn out more of the same, and the people did lap it up, and the king's house was full of silver. And even then the king did not pay his tithe to the US treasury.

15:2 The priests of expensive and undurable chattels did rub their hands and take the name of Nokia in vain, and poured scorn on those who claimed plastic might yet serve the will of god. And the wicked continued to insist that all should buy flat glass slabs from the temples of Orange and O2, ignoring that one size does not fit all.

Re: EU Bananas Myth

Nice try, but too obvious.

Re: WTF

agreed.. and now , your touch movements have to be in 3 dimensions. so when you swipe, you have to go left to right and also away from you and back again to remain in contact with the screen.

but hey, at least they can say now that they "innovate" and come up with something on their own without copying... even though it is completely useless, its THEIR useless

Not only banans, cuecumbers where also included. I thing they even specified how much it was supposed to be curved.

A fine idea. Would you see a range of phones to accomodate variations?

Galaxy Curve Athlete: Very right curve for the pert buttocks of a fit body

Galaxy Curve Slack: Slightly less curved for more everyday behinds that could do with a bit of exercise

Galaxy Curve Hambeast: I think that one speaks for itself.

Galaxy Curve Waterproof V: WIth a V shaped back, this sits firmly in the cleft, and is water proofed to prevent sweat damage.

Galaxy Curve Anorexia: A normal flatphone but enabling the excessively thin to buy into the Curve brand (you can see I'd have been great in marketing).