Yet if truth be told, the first - round of
curved smartphone designs weren't received well in the marketplace.
The more interesting designs that are presented in our report cover a new Smart Band that's different than Gear Fit, and three new
curved smartphone designs that are different than Samsung's latest Galaxy Note Edge.
Not exact matches
Designed from scratch in an operation dubbed «Project Zero», the Galaxy S6 and its
curved - edges variant are critical for Samsung's plans to reverse plunging
smartphone revenues that led to its first annual earnings fall in three years in 2014.
There is a learning
curve with Sync, but the new system is
designed similarly to a
smartphone, using gestures such as pinch - to - zoom or swipes.
As for the benefits of having a
curved display on
smartphones and tablet devices, while many debate such a
design, one obvious benefit of it is that the display has lesser chances of getting damaged since it is never exposed in its entirety, even when placed face down.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S follows the Galaxy S5
smartphone's
design, offering a perforated textured back and fingerprint sensor, along with smooth,
curved edges.
These new models are
designed to address a large and important segment of the global mobile phone market where customers are looking to upgrade their existing feature phone or existing BlackBerry
Curve with an affordable, easy - to - use, full - featured and socially - connected
smartphone.
Designed to be easy to use and easy to own, these new models also each offer the longest lasting battery life yet in a BlackBerry
Curve smartphone, allowing users to make the most of their day.
Taking clear
design cues from the Samsung Galaxy S3
smartphone, think of the Note 2 as a kind of super-sized version of the flagship handset, swapping straight lines for sleeker
curves and a white paint job «inspired by «nature», so the marketing blurb tells us.
Alltel is also offering the recently announced Motorola Evoke, great for social networking; the BlackBerry ®
Curve ™ 8330, one of the most popular
smartphones available today; the BlackBerry ® Pearl ™ 8130
smartphone, an impressive handset that combines multimedia and communications features in a compact
design; the Motorola Hint QA30, a stylish, compact device with a slide - out keyboard; and the LG Rhythm ™, allowing customers to bring their music with them, right on their handset.
The Chinese
smartphone manufacturer has
designed the A83 with its UFOs (UFO
Curve Design Philosophy).
The new BlackBerry
Curve 9360
smartphone is slim, stylish and ergonomically
designed with a comfortable keyboard for fast, accurate typing and an optical trackpad for easy, one - handed navigation.
«The
Curve 9315 is
designed to make it incredibly easy to stay connected with friends, family and coworkers and will be popular with customers upgrading to a
smartphone for the first time, as well as existing
Curve customers looking for a step up in speed and functionality.»
«The majority of people in the worldwide mobile phone market have yet to buy their first
smartphone and the BlackBerry
Curve 3G is
designed to provide an extremely attractive and accessible choice that will help convince many of them to make the leap.»
The BlackBerry
Curve 8900
smartphone sports a slim, refined
design and is the thinnest, full - QWERTY BlackBerry (R)
smartphone yet.
«The majority of people in the worldwide mobile phone market have yet to buy their first
smartphone,» RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said in a statement, «and the BlackBerry
Curve 3G is
designed to provide an extremely attractive and accessible choice that will help convince many of them to make the leap.»
The BlackBerry
Curve 3G (or 9300) is the newest handset from RIM, pitched at the entry - level, as confirmed by Mike Lazaridis, CEO: «The majority of people in the worldwide mobile phone market have yet to buy their first
smartphone and the BlackBerry
Curve 3G is
designed to provide an extremely attractive and accessible choice that will help convince many of them to make the leap».
The
smartphone features ultra slim and lightweight
design, and its brushed metallic body with naturally
curved base makes it more stylish and elegant.
The
smartphone has a metal unibody
design with very narrow bezels and there are
curved edges for easier grip.
The
design of the Galaxy Tab S range follows the same path as the recently launched Galaxy S5
smartphone, with a perforated textured back and
curved edges, plus the new line of tablets also brings the
smartphone's fingerprint sensor on board.
Frankly, the differences in
design are subjective; as
smartphones have shown us, some people prefer a sturdier, more heavy - duty look over the shiny and smooth
curves employed by the Tab.
«The BlackBerry
Curve and BlackBerry Pearl series of
smartphones have become extremely popular around the world by giving customers all the powerful BlackBerry communications, media and social networking capabilities they expect, in compact, stylish and easy - to - use handset
designs.
In addition to providing the industry's leading mobile email and messaging solution, the BlackBerry
Curve 8520
smartphone is
designed to be efficient and convenient.
The BlackBerry
Curve 3G is an inexpensive consumer - oriented
smartphone that uses the typical BlackBerry
design and sports 3G wireless networking, Wi - Fi, and GPS.
Right from the way the glass panels meet seamlessly with the metal edges to the way the phones have gentle
curves all over, it goes on to show the sheer amount of
design and engineering effort Samsung has put into these
smartphones.
These showed a device which retains the solid,
curved metal unibody
design from previous One M - series
smartphones, but with a front panel which looked more like the One A9.
Both
smartphones retain the
design language of their predecessors, but while the Samsung phone has a
curved display now, the only visible difference with the iPhones are the re-designed antenna lines on the back, and the introduction of a couple of new color options.
The Galaxy S6 Edge sports a unique
design, it has a
curved display on the front, which is
curved on both its left and right side, unlike any other
smartphone released to date.
Its
curved glass body juxtaposes the concepts of strength and light for a truly illuminating
smartphone design.
The
smartphone comes with a unibody metal
design with
curved edges on the rear.
To Sony's credit, the phone's
curved back and the company new
design language make the the XZ2 Compact one of the most comfortable
smartphones I've ever had the pleasure of holding.
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And lastly, Samsung's third
smartphone design of interest noted below illustrates that the backside of this
smartphone has
curved edges matching the front side
design.
Unique
curved glass body juxtaposes strength and light for a truly illuminating
smartphone design
The
smartphone is expected to feature an all - glass
design with wireless charging capabilities built in, and
curved OLED display that will include a virtual home button that will allow the handset to remove the large bezels on the top and bottom of all previous iPhones.
Now all this makes sense now, and it would appear that future iPhones might have a new, innovative
design with
curved screens and touchless gesture controls, as Apple might try to leave the «notch»
design behind due to the numerous Android
smartphone manufacturers adopting it lately.
Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S III in mid-2012 and later the Samsung Galaxy Note II in late - 2012, Samsung revamped their
smartphone design language to incorporate their now - iconic
curved edges.
The Good The Gear Fit 2 has a slim
design with a beautiful
curved AMOLED display that can show
smartphone notifications and weekly charts.
The Gear Fit 2 has a slim
design with a beautiful
curved AMOLED display that can show
smartphone notifications and weekly charts.
You get beautifully
design smartphone with 2.5 D
curved glass protection on display, which doesn't only gives better protection than just the coating, but also offering attractive
design.
In practice, what that means is that the flagship XZ2 features a translucent finish and a more
curved design than past Xperia
smartphones.
This
smartphone also comes with a full metal body
design with 3D
curved glass which offers end - to - end screen like Elephone S3
smartphone.
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Smartphones Reflecting New User Interfaces and Modes of Operation Main New Samsung
Design Patents Reveal a Differently
Curved Smartphone, Tablets Docked to a Keyboard & More»
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Specifically, a Bloomberg report from earlier in the week claims that Apple has been prototyping a
curved iPhone model
designed to stand out in a
smartphone market where devices are becoming harder and harder to tell apart.
Samsung has been hinting for some time now that future
smartphone designs would be adding
curved and even «folded displays.»
Today, Samsung was granted a series of new
design patents covering a few tablet ideas, a differently
curved smartphone and a few oddities along the way.
However, a short 23 - second teaser video might give insight into the new flagship
smartphones, specifically that it could feature a
curved back
design.
Contrary to the original Samsung «Round»
smartphone design, we see that Samsung is also thinking of one that
curved vertically as noted in Samsung's patent figures noted below.
In case of
design, the Pixel
smartphones have horribly big bezels and if that's where Google has exerted «more control» then it has exerted that in a negative way considering that manufacturers like Samsung and LG have mastered the art of fitting larger displays in smaller form factors by having razor thin bezels,
curved displays etc..