WHY? 18:9

[mustang_steve]

Think of the bright side to this ratio. It's now easier to shove the phone where people dislike it being shoved.

 

[euskalzabe]

And I thought this was a joke until now. I haven't even heard about this 18.7:9 nonsense until I started looking for a phone now.

You joked a year ago, and now this is what Essential is working on.

 

[M76]

You joked a year ago, and now this is what Essential is working on.

I already bought a Mi9T Pro a few weeks ago, and even that is annoying to use. I cannot use it in portrait to browse, as I used my Vibe Z2 Pro, because the browser is streched so wide that I only get 3 lines of text in the screen, and it is impossible to zoom out on either chrome or the inbuilt browser as they stick to the edge of the screen. With the higher screen res on the vibe I could browse every site in desktop mode. With this I'm forced to be a mobile peasant.

And of course when playing videos I have black bars on the screen edges, fucking useless. The phone could be an inch shorter at least and more practical if it had a 16:9 screen.

I'm actually considering trying again to root the vibe and going back to it.