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I hate rounded corners especially on phone screens. Rectangles for the win!
My phone has a rounded screen AND rounded corners. I hit crap with my palm all the time, and my screen protector is getting mangled from everything. Ugh.
Rounded corners of the phone are not inherently bad, especially if the phone is in a thick case... A rounded screen is annoying in the same way as Windows 11 windows.
From an "industrial design of a mobile device" point of view, it has a reason. Pointed corners are fragile when the device is dropped. The corner is a focal point of stresses in the glass, and rounding the corner spreads the stresses out.
Tldr; a square corner on glass will shatter more often when dropped.
Nah. I don't mind the phone being rounded but the screen does not need to extend all the way. The bezels make for a more comfortable finger resting place and allow for physical βΉοΈβΊοΈβοΈ buttons.
A horizontal bezel is also helpful at protecting the screen, as opposed to "all around" screens that don't really allow for proper "enveloping" rubber cases.
You can make the screen have perfectly sharp corners but have subtly round edges in the glass. Also... If phone manufacturers actually cared about the durability of their display, they'd add things like a rim around the display or a little chin. And for the back they'd use soft-coated plastic for the back like on their own older devices. Instead they are producing slippery, all-flush glass sandwiches.
I used both of the phones linked above and while they're not super-pretty, they were extremely practical at the time. Using a bumper seemed so silly with these devices. The Sony in particular fell on concrete so many times, without the glass ever shattering.