Wonder if they’ll use a rigid OLED panel like they did on the 7a and 8a. Dylan Raga wrote an excellent piece reviewing the Pixel 8’s display where he said they’d finally switched to a flexible OLED panel on the regular model.

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    8 months ago

    Why does a flexible display matter in a rigid device? It’s not folding so what difference does it make? In other news I’m thinking about updating my 7 since the charging port is not making solid connections anymore. It’s on my car mount sideways all day every day as a trucker.

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      8 months ago

      For when internal components come unglued and start poking into the underside of the screen

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      Flexible OLED panels have smaller bezels, better viewing angles and are less prone to exhibiting a rainbow effect. You can check Dylan Raga’s review of the Pixel 6, 7 and 8 to see why the 8’s display is an upgrade over the 6 and 7.

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        8 months ago

        Bezels are good though. I like being able to hold my phone and not use the touch screen accidentally.

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          8 months ago

          Ya, kinda tired of hitting the edges of my samsung, and their accidental edge touch protection’s kinda useless.

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            8 months ago

            The fact that there exists a solution to protect against accidental edge touch means that having the digitiser/screen all the way to the edge of the device is a flaw in the design. 🤣

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          8 months ago

          But that’s just your preference tho, most prefer smaller bezels for the looks and design is focused on what the market wants. I always use a case and screen protector anyway so maybe that’s why I never had issues with accidental touches.

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      8 months ago

      Try getting a needle and digging out all the compressed fluff in the charging port. I did this (had to dig pretty hard as it was really squashed in) and saved a phone that was otherwise almost unusable!