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Comments of the Week: Plastic smartphones, OPPO, and Pixel prototypes
June 08, 2025
Hey everyone! Welcome back to another installment of Comment Authority, our weekly roundup of the best comments onAndroid Authorityfrom you, our readers. This past week we saw passionate conversations about smartphone materials (plastic good!) and smartphone designs (notch bad!). We also saw a great conversation happen surrounding theOPPO Find X, the next exciting flagship from the Chinese manufacturer.
Without any further ado, let’s read some of the best comments of the week!
Missing the bygone days of plastic
Ina recent pollrun here atAndroid Authority, we asked a simple question: do you prefer smartphones primarily made of metal or those made primarily of glass? While the poll netted some interesting results (metal was the clear winner), we were surprised to see how many of you out there miss the days of plastic smartphones.
I could explain to you why everyone seems to think that, but I don’t need to, because commenterJohnnie Hougaard Nielsensums it up perfectly in this comment:
The OPPO Find X has got us excited
Our own Hadlee Simons wrote a very interesting article about howthe upcoming OPPO Find Xcould make smartphones exciting again. It’s no secret that smartphone design has gotten pretty stagnant, and maybe OPPO is in the right place at the right time to upend the industry.
The comments on that article are filled with people equally as excited for the new device (and, as usual, some that are very much NOT looking forward to it). But one comment rose above the rest from frequent visitorbalcobomber25. Check what they had to say:
This might be the worst notch yet
We post a lot of leaks here atAndroid Authority, and last week we saw one for the allegedly upcomingMotorola Power One. Although the device has stock Android (yes!) it also features a very prominent notch (no!). How prominent? It is probably the widest notch we’ve yet seen, wide enough that there’s barely any room for notification icons.
Why even bother having a notch if it isn’t kept as small as possible? That’s a good question, and one that commenteradsubzerocouldn’t help but ask:
Don’t forget about the chin
Speaking of notches, the other much-maligned design aspect of smartphones nowadays is the chin, otherwise known as the bottom bezel. Aside from the iPhone X, no smartphone has been able to completely eliminate the chin, although plenty of companies have got chins down to a very small width.
But therecently leaked prototypefor the upcoming Google Pixel 3 features both a notch and a wide chin. It reminded commenterAngryGoombaof a fictional character hellbent on dominating the universe:
Have a great weekend everyone! I’m leaving today on a European vacation, but I’ll still be writing next week’s Comment Authority from a cafe in Spain somewhere.
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