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Nubia X: a Dual-Display Smartphone with No Selfie Camera
Nubia, a ZTE brand, this week introduced its new range-topping smartphone outfitted with front and rear displays and Qualcomm's high-end SoC. The new Nubia X features a rare 93.6% screen-to-body ratio on the primary LCD, maximizing its screen real estate while also offering a serious performance. The phone will certainly catch some eyes, but what remains to be seen is how useful the second display is and how will it affect battery life of the device.
The two screens are naturally the key selling point of the Nubia X. The primary display is a 6.26-inch IPS LCD offering a 2280×1080 resolution, a 19:9 aspect ratio, and featuring no notch (as there is no camera). The secondary display is a 5.1-inch OLED that has the same aspect ratio, but a 1520×720 resolution. The screen on the rear of the smartphone blends with the device's aluminum body and is designed primarily for ultimate personalization (e.g., you can load your own unique wallpaper on the back and get a handset no one else has). To make selfies, as the Nubia X does not have a front-facing camera, users will use the main camera and the rear screen to do so.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by crafoo on Saturday November 03 2018, @01:07PM (1 child)
what innovation? removing the keypad from a blackberry and adding a touch screen?
installing ever-shittier keyboards and glossy screens on their over-priced laptops?
tethering their music players and phones to the worst piece of media organizing/playing software ever seen? IT Archeologists through the ages will marvel at the dunpster-fire of iTunes.
The ipad was good product-to-market timing. How many do you actually see being used now?
The App Store wasn't innovative, but it was the right idea for maximum money and minimum user flexibility & freedom. Apple didn't even want to do it though, or really think it was a good idea. It took a few years and much hand-wringing to even conceive of offering iphone users anything but Official Apple Apps on their iphone and iphone 3G.
Apple's best products were probably the PowerPC Power Mac towers about pre-2008. Not innovative but well-built and still useful.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 03 2018, @03:36PM
What's with the iTunes hate? I've seen it for so long, but never understood. There's certainly nothing better is FOSS world, if you say winamp I'm not gonna stop laughing until tomorrow, so what is your superior player?