The OnePlus chapter protects "mono-eye". OnePlus 6 will also have it
At the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, smartphones with the design in the style of the iPhone X could be seen almost at every stand of Chinese brands. The subsequent announcements of devices with a cutout at the top of the screen only strengthened the general trend, but the co-founder OnePlus Carl Pei does not see anything wrong with this.
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The "fir" of the future OnePlus 6 is shown in the photo above. Somewhere between Essential Phone and Apple's flagship, the company even specified the exact dimensions - 19.616x7.687 mm. Karl Pei claims that they cared primarily about increasing the usable area of the screen, which will occupy about 90% of the front panel. Sooner or later it would still have happened, just the output of the iPhone X accelerated the process. Manufacturers of displays foresaw high demand and began to offer panels of a new format.
A small "chin" from OnePlus 6 is also there. This is a constructive limitation of the display module, which managed to bypass only Apple - the company bent the bottom of the OLED-panel with the control circuit inside the case). It just sounds, but it's hard to realize. Chinese manufacturers can not afford this technology.
The software part
OnePlus claims to have tested the first thousand of the most popular apps on Google Play for compatibility with the cutout. As a result, it was decided to move the clock to the left corner, and when the user starts playing the video on the entire screen, the monobrow is automatically hidden by adding a black bar (a similar function is in the flagships of the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro ).
In OnePlus 6, you can drop the standard Android system buttons and enable gesture management. Yes, this is another reference to the iPhone X, but at least the back of the smartphone does not look like another pathetic clone. Judging by the spy photo of the backrest - no vertical modules on the left (learn, Xiaomi ). And the 3.5-mm connector did not go away, Karl Pei confirmed.
When it is worth waiting for the announcement of the successor to the OnePlus 5T, the company is not informed.
Source: The Verge