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Found this antique prediction from around 2012. How did it pan out?
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I like how at the time we hadn't even considered the entire slab would be a screen, like the memes still have the home button at the bottom. I get that it's a meme but still.
We also probably assumed the headphone jack would never go away either so.
It was my prediction. We've even got ones with a screen that wraps onto the side. A screen on the back side hasn't happened yet, though.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/xiaomis-crazy-new-2800-phone-has-display-on-the-front-sides-and-back/
But it's just dumb, so it hasn't caught on.
I hate phones with glass backsides, I've replaced the back of my S20 a dozen times before switching to a phone with a plastic back. Yes it looks nice (if you use it without a cover), but it breaks so easily. It's always super thin glass, not the thick gorilla glass like the front. If you look at it wrong it cracks.
Pixel 5 had a metal back coated with some resin thing. Best phone design in history.
...Except the battery replacement is crazy difficult.
I mean it is kind of dumb, especially if it's as delicate as the front. I was young and I didn't really understand the manufacturing realities. I'm guessing phones will keep looking the same for the next bit, with a slim chance Apple's goggle thing will actually catch on a bit.
Yeah we have. We even had a phone that had an e-paper display on one side for low power usage. Almost all the folding phones have a screen that is on the back when unfolded.
You could argue that folding phones have screens on the back, just not the full thing, and not always the back
My zFold would like a word