Google says bumpy Pixel 8 screens are nothing to worry about — Display ‘bumps’ are components pushing into the OLED panel::undefined
Pay no attention to our bad engineering.
“no functional impact”? We clearly have very different ideas about the function of a display.
It’s always something with Google, isn’t it?
The “puncture marks” shown in the article are caused by some sort of grounding connectors/lever thingies, most likely for the capacitive touchscreen. So they aren’t some random “components” poking through.
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Seriously. I don’t understand why everyone wants thinner phones…weight I get, but the thin-ness just makes it harder to hold.
Give me a Gameboy sized phone, idgaf.
The weird thing is, I’m not sure any customers actually do care. it genuinely just feels like engineers finding ways to masturbate over how thin they can get something.
0.2 mm would probably be plenty
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Phones are such a shitshow today. I feel like they are dreaming up gimmicks just to sell something new, when all along the conventional design was just fine.
And stop anti-innovating. Give us back our SD slot and headphone jacks!
Gotta do whatever you can to save that 0.01 mm
My first communicator had an SD slot and a miniSD slot. This made copying photos from SD to SD harder than necessary, so I hoped it’d get better with time.
Now, because of sPaCe CoNcErNs I don’t even get to have any card slot in my 14" laptop (only in my 10"one) a headphones jack in my 8" phone (only in my 3.5" one).
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Sooo… don’t buy a Pixel 8 because of a design flaw is what I’m hearing? Thanks for responding, Google.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It looks like components inside the phone are pressing up against the back of the OLED display, resulting in visible bumps under the right lighting conditions.
When the screen is turned off, not in use and in specific lighting conditions, some users may see impressions from components in the device that look like small bumps.
The pictures and videos out there all involve people shining flashlights into a turned-off display, so it’s not the end of the world.
It wasn’t noted in the video, but freeze-frame it and you’ll see some pretty alarming indents in the copper sheet on the back of the display that you can try to match up to the other half of the phone.
It’s also strange that this happens only on some Pixel 8s, indicating it’s a QC issue and not some purposeful decision in the never-ending quest for device thinness.
The tell-tale sign of this being an actual problem will be an OLED display that’s internally broken but doesn’t have a shattered glass cover.
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“Nooo, it will never break on the pressure points. It won’t wear-out faster. We promise.”
Bumps the size of those shown are pretty obviously a defect, because it distorts the image in a way that can not be reasonably expected for such a product, even if it’s only visible for a very keen eye, it can be returned by the customer under warranty.
If Google should try to refute that, they will almost for sure lose any claims decision under EU or comparable law.Pixel 8, now with permanent braille
I’m tired of all these flat phones anyway.
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Don’t worry about those bumps in your hood. It’s just engine parts pushing into the sheet metal.
But I want a perfect hood
WE SAID DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT
