This causes the left and right sides of the display to curve downward and wrap around the body of the phone. However, Samsung never really considered whether this was a good idea, and the curved display just brings a lot of drawbacks to the phone’s design. All of these should be viewed on a flat surface. In many lighting conditions, the curve captures a lot of glare, making it difficult to actually see anything within that range. The curvature also makes it easier to accidentally touch the curved portion of the screen, which usually renders the touchscreen non-functional.
Starting with Pixel 8 Pro including various renders from OnLeaks and Smartprix. It feels like these are leaked every year, but this phone should be released in Q4. The biggest change in last year’s new renderer is the flat display. The smartphone industry has finally managed to do without the pointless gimmick of curved smartphone displays. We’ve been against curved smartphone displays for nine years. Samsung, the world’s leading smartphone display maker, discovered a few years ago that he could bend OLED panels.
It was introduced by Samsung, but Android OEM groupthink quickly meant that all manufacturers were adopting these distorted displays in their flagship phones. Most Android apps solve the problem by setting only very large margins so that distorted areas of the screen can be avoided. The only smartphone holdout was Apple.
But nine years later, Android users finally have hope. It’s a Google Pixel 8 Pro. The new rendering shows a nice flat display with no distortion. It looks incredible. In our testing, the curved display was one of the biggest (albeit small) criticisms of the Pixel 7 Pro, especially since Google showed what the cheaper Pixel 7 could be, “Google’s best-designed phone is actually a cheap Pixel 7 with a flat screen and matte aluminum finish,” and Google dismisses one of those major complaints.