Jumping into the “Notch” bandwagon. Going a ‘notch’ ahead, Huawei is working on a full screen (well almost) smartphone with an innovative design where a hole would be created to fit in a front facing camera on a 6-inch LCD display. The idea of a notch on the phone’s display was Apple‘s brainchild, a trend which was shamelessly copied by other handset makers such as Huawei, Xiaomi, OnePlus and reportedly Google’s Pixel 3 too. The sensors were set on the notch, along with the front camera. Now Huawei is trying to reverse the trend completely by removing the notch and instead creating a hole where the notch used to sit just near at the top. Above the camera would be a very thin bezel which would support the sensors.
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A South Korean organization called ET News reports that Huawei has been working on this ever since the fourth quarter of 2017. To make sure that the front camera lens does not get obstructed by a foreign object such as the display glass, a hole had to be created at the top of the display.As per the concept image that they received, there is a gradual decline of the top bezel. From being a thin bezel to a notch and finally an extremely thin bezel with a hold below it. It is yet to be brought into reality but it does make the evolution of display screen an interesting road to improve the user experience.The competitiveness to achieve the complete full screen has escalated so much that today we see phones from Chinese phone companies like Oppo Find X, Vivo Nex which has a popup camera or Apple’s notch. Samsung Display and LG Display are reportedly developing full-screen OLED display without transmitters. Meanwhile, Samsung’s ‘Sound Display’ technology is replacing transmitters with an actuator on a display screen so that it makes sound vibrations. That underlines how the computing field is changing ever so fast and we aren’t far from seeing no bezels or expandable screens.
