What if we got island - style housings for selfie cameras and
earpieces instead of a smartphone notch?
Repairs audio routing to prevent spontaneous speakerphone activations during calls and the random occurrence of music playback through
the earpiece instead of appropriate external speakers.
In order to ensure that call quality remains as clear as possible and to make it easier to construct, HTC has micro-drilled
the earpiece instead of adding a speaker grille, minimising distortion and giving it an all - round better look.
Not exact matches
These small
earpieces are basically fancy earplugs, but
instead of blocking all sound out as foam earplugs intend to do, they simply reduce the volume of certain frequencies in your surroundings.
Instead you have a spotter, Rob, who is sat up in the stands giving you instructions via an
earpiece, this only adds further to the experience in making you feel like a real racing driver and I'll be honest, it felt so damn cool having someone as a spotter.
As for the speaker that lets you hear calls with your ear to the phone, the company has done away with it and
instead uses an exciter to turn the entire display into an
earpiece.
The
earpiece, facial recognition sensor, and selfie camera are
instead present in a cutout, or «notch,» at the top of the screen, the images show.
Instead, the 10 has a tweeter in its
earpiece and a woofer placed at the bottom edge of the phone, each with its own amplifier.
Obviously, screen borders are not making a comeback, with Cupertino
instead reportedly focused on finding a way to hide the front - facing camera,
earpiece speaker and all the Face ID - enabling technology.
This was particularly true on the highway when trying to talk to someone, and I found myself just using the regular
earpiece speaker
instead for phonecalls.
Instead, pulling the right
earpiece appears to set off a proximity sensor which cuts music only in the left «bud.
Xiaomi also delivered a crazy solution to compensate for the lack of a top bezel, using a piezeoelectric speaker
instead of an
earpiece.
The setup is similar to what we see on other phones these days: The primary speaker is located at the bottom (on the left of the USB Type - C port
instead of the right) and the
earpiece doubles up as the second speaker.
It features an over-ear design, resting the cushioned ear pad on the outer - ear
instead of inside it, and an over-ear soft rubber
earpiece, which wraps around the ear.
However, one of the things that probably put many would - be buyers off the 10 was HTC's decision to do away with the two front - facing BoomSound speakers that we'd come to know and love, and,
instead, go with a bottom - facing primary speaker / woofer with the device's
earpiece doubling as a tweeter; it's a similar setup as we eventually saw on the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
Instead, it utilizes a USB cable that splits into dual micro USB connectors, one for each
earpiece.
Elsewhere, the original Mi Mix had a «piezoelectric speaker»
instead of a normal
earpiece speaker, but now, that's been replaced by a thin
earpiece in the top bezel.