Originally Posted by ibins

No speaker or microphone on the front. Put these on the back of the phone (Yeah - crazy, but why not?). Would this be too weird?

Putting the speaker to the back side (or top side) would eliminate the need for a second (front) camera. Video calls would work with the main camera.

Actually the border of the bezel could be the indicator.

Originally Posted by ibins

\o/ for the new phone with slider keyboard!

Crazy idea: Design the device so, that there is no (zero) bezel around the display. Having a 5,5" display would make the device almost exactly the size of a Jolla phone!

Without a slider keyboard this wouldn't make sense, because nobody could hold the device without interacting with the touch display. With the slider keyboard one can hold the device without touching the display at all! Addidtionally this would lead to a few interesting and unique design decitions:

- No speaker or microphone on the front. Put these on the back of the phone (Yeah - crazy, but why not?). Would this be too weird? After checking the display one would have to flip the device to the back side for actually taking the call. Alternatively the speaker could be positioned to the top edge of the side. Actually this would be the left speaker of the stereo speakers of an N900.

- Putting the speaker to the back side (or top side) would eliminate the need for a second (front) camera. Video calls would work with the main camera. Save the money for the second camera and lense. This way you could also blind yourself with the flash LEDs during a video call 8-)

- Putting the speaker to the back side (or top side) eventually could eliminate the need for the proximity sensor to disable the display when the device is held to the head while phoning.

- As there will be more space in depth: Please put two speakers into the thing like in N900, which sounds amazingly good, although the device is really short in length.

- A RGB notification LED on the front might be difficult. Possible solutions:
a) Put it on the bottom edge and position it, so it lights 45° to the bottom and 45° to the back side. When the device lies on a table, the LED will be directed to the person sitting in front of the table. Due to the 45° angle to the table, there is the chance, that the table surface will also reflect the LED.

b) In case you decide to still have a slimm bezel, there could be some sort of plastic fiber material directing the light of a LED positioned inside the phone to the bezel itself or to a small window in the bezel. Actually the border of the bezel could be the indicator.

Anyways: Having the hope to get a landscape slider device with Sailfish OS is very exciting! Thanks for that!

Originally Posted by NX500

It's possible to remove to earpiece/speaker completely and transmit the audio trough the frame of the phone, using piezo electric components.
The Xiaomi Mi Mix is using this technology.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016...es-looks-like/

Originally Posted by catbus

Why not Amoled?

Originally Posted by TheKit

So, ironically, SoC is the same with Moto Z Play. I already have SailfishOS booting on it (want to get more of hardware working before I publish the port though).

It should be more or less similar then in terms of porting, so we can (at bare minimum) have unofficial port (without Android support).

Originally Posted by ibins

- No speaker or microphone on the front. Put these on the back of the phone (Yeah - crazy, but why not?). Would this be too weird? After checking the display one would have to flip the device to the back side for actually taking the call. Alternatively the speaker could be positioned to the top edge of the side.

Originally Posted by chenliangchen

Because they are controlled mostly by Samsung, the suppliers. To get those screens in a small quantity usually is impossible as they will simply ignore us. I'm sure most people wouldn't want to pay a few hundreds bucks more just to get the amoled.