Smart Stay: Have you ever been in the mist of reading
something on your smartphone screen and it turns off because of your screen lock settings?
Not exact matches
What I like about this design is that it does not have the same square
screen as most Blackberry phones, instead its long and rectangular,
something that it has more in common with other higher end
smartphones on the market.
In fact, the
screen probably drains more power than any other component
on most modern
smartphones and tablets, so if Qualcomm really can improve its display brightness without dramatically increasing power consumption, the company could be
on to
something.
I'm really not interested in having my
smartphone screen look like
something on a Nintendo DS!
Most designs have involved add -
on devices that magnify objects and use the
smartphone's
screen for examination, but researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have come up with
something even better that doesn't require any bulky extra devices and, best of all, is super cheap to make.
Perhaps the most interesting and innovative feature is the in -
screen fingerprint reader,
something that other
smartphone manufacturers have missed out
on.
You'll notice that there are a lot of
screens — the giant
screen in front, but also two
screens for rear passengers, and a
screen on the steering wheel, all of which Byton says is meant to be
something like a
smartphone on wheels.
This isn't the only change to the application as Klinker Apps, the team behind Pulse SMS, notes that Android Wear 2.0's standalone version of Pulse brings along some improvements such as the spacing of messages in your threads,
something which was probably implemented to make better use of the
screen space that you have
on a watch, which is much smaller than that of a
smartphone.
Simply fire up the app
on the
smartphone, point your device's camera at
something, and start doodling
on the
screen.
For the time being Google is flagging this up as an Android TV feature so it remains to be seen if it'll appear
on smartphones and tablets too, but picture - in - picture would enable videos to play in a small box
on screen while you get
on with
something else - like multi-window support, it's likely to come in very handy for those with Android tablets.
Credit: Charnsitr / ShutterstockAssuming Apple goes through with the edge - to - edge
screen everyone's expecting for the iPhone 8 —
something smartphone makers like LG and Samsung have already pulled off with the G6 and Galaxy S8, respectively — that means finding a new home for the Touch ID sensor, which resides under the home button
on current iPhone models.
In the era of 2K and even 4K
smartphone displays, the P9's comparatively modest Full HD
screen may seem underpowered, but I am yet to be convinced that a higher resolution
on such a small display is a benefit —
something with which Apple appears to agree, sticking with similar resolution in its iPhones.
This is
something Samsung was planning
on replacing with an
on -
screen fingerprint sensor, making the Galaxy S8 the world's first
smartphone with
on -
screen fingerprint sensing technology.
I think watching movies
on a
smartphone screen is
something akin to blasphemy, but the S8 Active's 18:5:9 aspect ratio offers a more immersive experience than other phones this size.
But with the demand for this technology
on the rise,
something that can be evidenced with the recent release of an OLED
screen - based OnePlus 3 flagship, the latest
smartphone to drop LCD panels in favor of OLED.
If you don't need a curved
screen or a stylus
on your
smartphone and just want
something that will work well every day, the S6 is your best Galaxy flavor.
Embedding fingerprint sensors in the display of a
smartphone, thereby allowing you to eliminate the Home button for extra
screen real estate, is
something a number of companies have been working
on.
While
something like the Pixel does have a couple of gestures that can be used with the fingerprint sensor and other Android devices can use plenty of gestures with third - party launchers like Nova, the Elephone S8 has a number of gestures built into it for unlocking the display and launching apps just by drawing
something on the
screen before even waking it, which is
something you'll see in a lot of Chinese brand
smartphones.