Thanks to clever use
of its edge screen technology, Samsung has managed to cram a 5.8 - inch display into a body not wider than that of the 5.1 - inch Galaxy S7.
To understand the purpose
of the edge screen, and the Note Edge, one has to look back at what Samsung has been doing with and to Android since the original Note back in 2011.
Most
of the Edge screen features are not very useful, and I rarely found myself using them in day to day life.
The Korean company has added software bits to make use
of the edge screen.
The most use I got out
of the Edge screen was for notifications.
The company also announced it partnered with various other companies to bolster the functionality
of its Edge screen, including Naver V, Yahoo, Finance, Yahoo Sports and Yahoo News (which come pre-equipped with the update).
To access the hub
of the edge screen settings, simply swipe down from the top of the S6 edge screen to display the usual Android alerts, hit the settings cog in the top right corner, then scroll down to the orange - coloured Device section where «Edge screen» lives.
For all the fanfare
of the edge screens, the functionality Samsung has provided to show off its latest innovation is disappointingly limited.
Though the handset is comfortable to hold at first it might feel odd holding it because
of the edge screen.
Change the location and size
of the edge screen handle: This is important.
The metal finish on the frame is almost the same as what you see on the Galaxy Alpha or on the Note 4, but the metal frame continues in a weird shape at the junction
of the Edge Screen and the back plate.
Not exact matches
The smaller new S9 model has a 5.8 - inch
edge - to -
edge screen, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 processor, and starts with 64 GB
of storage.
But Brin's timing is not propitious, coming as many developers and early Glass users are losing interest in the much - hyped, $ 1,500 test version
of the product: a camera, processor and stamp - sized computer
screen mounted to the
edge of eyeglass frames.
A Samsung spokesman last week said the new Galaxy
Edge, a phone with a curved
screen along one
of its
edges, will be the company's highest - end offering yet.
And the
screen will likely run to the
edge of the enclosure.
In Netflix, videos only filled up part
of the
screen and still had black
edges.
It's not really that much
of an adjustment, and the benefit is that the
screen runs all the way to the
edges.
For example, the new devices allow you to swipe in from either
edge of the
screen for easy navigation, forward or backwards, within a mobile application.
The S6
Edge features a curved display on both
edges of the
screen, offering enhanced functionality.
Apple already significantly cut down the size
of the bezel (the border between the
screen and the phone's frame) on its most - recent release the iPhone X, creating an almost entirely
edge - to -
edge display.
The Galaxy S6
Edge is essentially a version
of the Galaxy S6 with a curved
screen.
Samsung is expected to use the curved glass
screen from its Galaxy S7
Edge on all models
of the S8, which is also expected to lose its home button in favor
of a virtual on -
screen button and a fingerprint reader on the back.
What happens if that physical button goes away to make more room for the
screen, filling the
edges of the bezel like your home television?
The phone has a 5.2 - inch IPS LCD 1080P
screen, a 2680 mAh battery and a fingerprint ID built into the side
edge of the device for added security.
You know how people upload movies to YouTube that are re-filmed from a funny angle, or that cut off the
edges of the
screen?
The remaining 10 %, around the
edges of the
screen, is reserved for going back.
Read how the high - tech precision
screen company partnered with Ralph Lauren and U.S. manufacturers to produce a cutting -
edge down parka to be worn by U.S. Olympic athletes during the opening ceremonies
of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
To achieve the lower price point, Nest traded the original thermostat's metal
edges for plastic and reduced the number
of colors displayed on the
screen.
With the iPhone X, Apple is proposing a $ 200 price increase over the Plus models on the back
of a new form factor that features a new
edge to
edge higher quality OLED
screen and sophisticated 3D Face ID technology replacing the Touch ID fingerprint security system.
It's kind
of like those old - fashioned video games in that when you get to the
edge of the
screen you pop out on the other side.
At one outdoor café, Italians gather near a glowing flat -
screen television to watch a soccer match and sip espresso, while a handful
of young African migrants cheer along from the outer
edges of the café.
If you actually READ the Bible, I don't care if it's the dainty golden
edged pages, on the
screen of your smartphone or what, Jesus and the authors
of the New Testament epistles emphasize again and again and again the importance
of living the Christian life in community — walking through life with other people, in * real * life, in * real * time.
Known as NDtech, the cutting -
edge technology greatly enhances Amorim's quality control measures by
screening individual cork stoppers on the production line to eliminate the risk
of corks contaminated with 2,4,6 - trichloroanisole (TCA) reaching winemakers.
The break from 10 yards away, the violence
of the collision with Chargers left tackle King Dunlap who tried to block him on that smoke
screen and, yes, the tackle itself that limited Johnson to just a 3 - yard gain even though it should have been the perfect play as the Chiefs blitzed off the
edge to that same side.
These include an
edge on the side
of the protector itself, an alignment strip to hold the
screen protector in place, and an applicator to press it into place.
Pioneering physicians, cutting -
edge technology, meticulous
screening, and a guarantee
of two embryos.
Southold spent $ 50,000 on
screened sand to build up a dune at the
edge of Town Beach during the recent rehabilitation project there, and although the Federal Emergency Management Agency will likely reimburse the town for it, Town Board members are worried that the sand might be too fine to keep from blowing away.
For example, some simulated universes behave like an old arcade game — if you walk to one
edge of the universe, you cross back over to the other side, like Pac - Man exiting the right side
of the
screen and reappearing on the left.
The public
screening of Bowermaster's documentary, Antarctica: On the
Edge, took place the same day at AAAS headquarters.
The horizontal
edges of objects on
screen jitter up and down because each full TV picture is transmitted as two half pictures or «fields».
Many touch
screens are made
of layered thin (billionths
of a meter thick) films
of indium - tin oxide, an inorganic material that is electrically conductive, which allows electrical signals to travel from the «touch» to the
edges of the display, where they are sensed by the device — as well as optically transparent.
Because viewers» attention is usually on the middle area
of the
screen, where there is no distortion
of shape, the gradual
edge - stretching is in practice seldom noticeable.
But as the beam scans the
edge areas
of the wide
screen on either side
of the central area, it accelerates.
Burt Rutan, who put a rocket plane at the
edge of space last year, has been on our radar
screen for decades, going back to his nimble homebuilt airplanes that rest on their noses.
Once the dot has reached the
edge of the
screen, the patient has to move his or her eyes back to the initial fixation point and the exercise begins again.
Our cutting
edge partnership w / @humanlongevity seeks to demonstrate the benefit
of early, advanced
screening in high - risk populations like Firefighters.
She adds a touch
of edge with studded pumps at the Us and Them
screening in N.Y.C.
It's a fresh take on a now old idea, but with a vibrancy that makes you sit on the
edge of your seat and occasionally yell at the
screen.
The fact that the theater I saw it in just had the 16:9 image, with the
edges of the projector gate very obvious in the middle
of the larger
screen without closing the curtains to frame it — assuming they even can — probably made it more stark.
Until the end credits — which shuffle through still photographs from a harder -
edged, more nastily and candidly adult movie — the on -
screen nudity consists
of male buttocks and a woman's breast in the mouth
of a nursing infant.