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I can imagine this opening up much better ergonomics for phone. This particular design is probably more for aesthetics, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was slightly more ergonomic. There's nothing ergonomic about the current rectangles.

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A curved phone might fit better in a front pocket, curving around the leg. Especially a gigantic 6" screen like this one.

I guess the difference between between a phone and a tablet is now 1 inch

Diagonal measurements are meaningless. I can make an infinity-inch screen that takes up no space. All "6 inch" means is "no dimension is larger than 6 inches".

> I can make an infinity-inch screen that takes up no space.

I don't understand what you meant by that. It's going to take infinite space...

1000" long by 0.00001" wide. Length 1000" (ish). Area 0.01 sq in.

Whatever is `1000" long`, hardly "takes up no space". We can go on about theoretical size, etc. In practice 1000" is a lot and not possible to comfortably store in any way by an average person.

I can see how a curvature on the vertical axis (like what Samsung did) would help fit better with the shape of the thigh, but this phone is curving horizontally. It would just create a weird bulge in your pocket, wouldn't it?

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