The well thought 'function' behind recessing the screen below the bezel is to protect it from scratches....and it does a great job at that judging from my heavily used Nuvi 660, which I take on all my trips.
You also don't have to put screen protectors on it, which makes the best feature of the device look like crap.
Sure it would probably look a little better if it were flush, but 'form' should follow function' not the other way around and I can see why they would choose to do it this way.
Yes, but its also a PITA to try and read a glossy screen with glare....like outside
Glossy screens also get fingerprints all over it which again can be hard to read in glare.
If you've ever used a Garmin Nuvi - they use a matte screen which you can actually read in bright daylight and doesn't easily show fingerprints. I personally prefer Garmin's matte-style as opposed to a glossy screen.
And I bet once you use one, 4/5 would prefer it....IMHO
I'll take the middle ground, since I own an iPhone AND a Nuvi 660 :D
They both serve their purposes quite well. I would never want the iPhone's industrial design for the Nuvi, and I'd never want the Nuvi's industrial design for the iPhone.
That being said, since the nuvifone is supposed to be following the phone paradigm rather than the GPS paradigm, I actually wonder about the functionality of a recessed screen.
Consider holding the phone up to your ear; would you have to deal with your face "fitting the mold" of the recessed screen while you're on the phone? Would it hurt your jawbone to have the phone awkwardly pressing pressure points on your skull due to the edges of the phone protruding further than the screen? Or maybe the user will have a hard time actually balancing the phone to his/her ear with such a small even area for the speaker to be placed. These are all questions that need to come into consideration when designing a phone. Personally, I think Apple got it right designing a flat phone for the sake of the ease of holding it up to the ear (which, I might add, is standard for mostly all phones today). I have a feeling that the recessed screen on the nuvi will cause an angle just large enough that it will cause unnecessary difficulty balancing the phone to get the speaker to position properly on the ear.
Fitz, do you own an iPhone? I have *never* had a problem reading the screen. Even in direct sunlight. The only time smudges show up is when the screen is off. That's hardly a downside.
Having a glass screen is definitely the way to go here. Being recessed by 1 MM isn't going to prevent those little metal things on my blue jeans from ripping up the screen when I slide it in my pocket.
This phone looks very promising other than that. I'm VERY interested to see the battery life though.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Man, if the screen was flush with the bezel, it would be a whole lot sexier. And no i am not a iPhone fanboy. In fact I got rid of it months ago.
The well thought 'function' behind recessing the screen below the bezel is to protect it from scratches....and it does a great job at that judging from my heavily used Nuvi 660, which I take on all my trips.
You also don't have to put screen protectors on it, which makes the best feature of the device look like crap.
Sure it would probably look a little better if it were flush, but 'form' should follow function' not the other way around and I can see why they would choose to do it this way.
They could use the same material that the iPhone uses. Mine never scratched when I used it.
Yes, but its also a PITA to try and read a glossy screen with glare....like outside
Glossy screens also get fingerprints all over it which again can be hard to read in glare.
If you've ever used a Garmin Nuvi - they use a matte screen which you can actually read in bright daylight and doesn't easily show fingerprints. I personally prefer Garmin's matte-style as opposed to a glossy screen.
And I bet once you use one, 4/5 would prefer it....IMHO
I'll take the middle ground, since I own an iPhone AND a Nuvi 660 :D
They both serve their purposes quite well. I would never want the iPhone's industrial design for the Nuvi, and I'd never want the Nuvi's industrial design for the iPhone.
That being said, since the nuvifone is supposed to be following the phone paradigm rather than the GPS paradigm, I actually wonder about the functionality of a recessed screen.
Consider holding the phone up to your ear; would you have to deal with your face "fitting the mold" of the recessed screen while you're on the phone? Would it hurt your jawbone to have the phone awkwardly pressing pressure points on your skull due to the edges of the phone protruding further than the screen? Or maybe the user will have a hard time actually balancing the phone to his/her ear with such a small even area for the speaker to be placed. These are all questions that need to come into consideration when designing a phone. Personally, I think Apple got it right designing a flat phone for the sake of the ease of holding it up to the ear (which, I might add, is standard for mostly all phones today). I have a feeling that the recessed screen on the nuvi will cause an angle just large enough that it will cause unnecessary difficulty balancing the phone to get the speaker to position properly on the ear.
Fitz, do you own an iPhone? I have *never* had a problem reading the screen. Even in direct sunlight. The only time smudges show up is when the screen is off. That's hardly a downside.
Having a glass screen is definitely the way to go here. Being recessed by 1 MM isn't going to prevent those little metal things on my blue jeans from ripping up the screen when I slide it in my pocket.
This phone looks very promising other than that. I'm VERY interested to see the battery life though.