brings me back to the good old days of shitty lcd screen viewing angles.

That's stupid.

Buy a privacy screen protector and stop wasting battery juice.

But then, what "innovation" manufacturers will hype to try to make you buy a new phone every year?

pretty much. it used to be that there would be sooooooooooo many changes that it made upgrading every year or two worth it. But now it's just gimmicks and stupid shit. it isn't necessary to upgrade every year or two anymore.

I've been having this disrupting ideas for for years, and it seems that every year I (sadly) get one more:

• actually open source software all the way down to the kernel and drivers.
• user replaceable batteries.
• micro SD slot.
• 3.5mm audio jack.
• zero glue.
• free schematics.
• parts available for purchase.

Does the phone costs double? I don't care. Shut up and take my money!

I like the idea of being able to control whether or not you want a privacy display at any given time. Also, it's not show in the footage but apparently we'll be able to control where on the screen we want the privacy display to be enable and to enable it only for certains app.

IPS still does that except it color shifts instead of becoming unviewable

Yeah, but installing a screen protector is a "permanent" action. If you ever decide "I want to watch a video on my phone with my partner", you're pretty much out of luck unless you want to destroy your screen protector for a single 2-minute YouTube video. Making this a toggle is actually a really good idea IMO, as this gives users more agency over when their screen is private.

Screen protectors I saw and used were portrait-only, meaning landscape orientation had viewing angles unchanged. If by video you mean shorts/tiktoks/reels, they are short form and it won't hurt to give it to them for 20 seconds, or, you know, put it a bit further from your face so both your faces are in the right angle.

I don't see downsides in most phones coming with the kit in a box or pre-installed by default. There are apparently ways to make them cheap and shitty, like any phone accessory, but that's a question of quality, not the question of functionality. And I don't see why wider angles in portrait orientation are of any use.

Wow such privacy.

The call is coming from inside the Samsung.

Turns out older phones with shitty displays that looked dark when viewing from sides were privacy phones all along.

Privacy screen meanwhile all your apps spy on you in the background.

TN or VA LCD.

Less consequences than the person on the bus side glancing on your screen and seeing spicy things by accident

*Fewer

And that's easily resolved by not viewing spicy things in public.

But that's makes it more fun

Edit: Apparently someone can't take a joke

Thanks for the correction.

Regarding the other part: Sometimes you also don't want less spicy things other people to see.