Beginning in 2017, smartphone designs were all about the notch. Apple wasn’t the first phone maker to cut a chunk out of a smartphone screen — LG has that honor courtesy of the V10 smartphone it released all the way back in 2015 — but no one would deny that Apple is responsible for the boom in smartphone notches that began in late 2017 with the iPhone X.

Once Apple’s tenth-anniversary iPhone design began to leak, nearly every smartphone maker on the planet rushed to copy it.

The end result was a bit embarrassing since just about every Android phone maker on the planet released phones that were spitting images of the iPhone X, but seeing Android phone makers copy Apple’s designs is obviously nothing new.


In 2019, something new is happening, though. For the first time in a long time, Apple is no longer responsible for starting a major smartphone design trend.

Instead, it was Samsung’s announcement last year that it was building smartphone displays with holes cut into them instead of notches.

This way, rather than have a larger amount of space consumed by a notch, phone screens only need tiny little holes that allow the selfie cameras to peek through. It’s a cool new design and it’ll definitely be all the rage this year, but the truth is that it really isn’t any better than Apple’s old notch design.

Often referred to as a hole-punch display, the idea of this new smartphone design is to increase the screen-to-body ratio and reduce the amount of dead space around a smartphone’s screen. In that regard, there’s no question that it succeeds. Phones with notches place things like cameras, speakers, and various sensors in the notch, but there’s still plenty of unused space between those components.


With a hole-punch screen like the one pictured in the featured image at the top of this post, all of the empty space from the notch is completely eliminated.

The camera lens (or camera lenses in the case of phones with dual front-facing cameras) pokes through a tiny little hole cut into the screen, and other sensors are small enough to be placed in the barely-there bezel above.

A thin cutout for the phone’s speaker is typically also found in the top bezel, or some phones use newer tech that actually lets a smartphone’s screen double as a speaker.


There’s precious little question that hole-punch displays are new and cool. The Galaxy S10 series Samsung is set to unveil in less than a month will be the first globally available flagship phone series to ship with hole-punch screens, and this new design will definitely help set them apart from earlier flagships. Once the novelty of the hole-punch display wears off, however, people will begin to realize that this new design really isn’t any better than a notch.


“Screen-to-body ratio” is a stat that hardcore gadget fans throw around all the time. It measures the amount of display on the face of a smartphone as compared to the amount of unused space around the display. So a smartphone with an old design that has big....

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Punch hole over a notch any day, anytime!!
Be it a rectangular or dewdrop notch...
Punch hole over a pop up camera, slider phone, rotating camera, etc!!

I dislike notch like anything. It's better to give an option for turning it off entirely

UnderScreen camera is coming

MeshachMARTINS:
UnderScreen camera is coming

not any time soon

skyhighweb:
not any time soon

xiaomi and oppo abi vivo already made a tease video...check YouTube

MeshachMARTINS:
xiaomi and oppo abi vivo already made a tease video...check YouTube

a tease? sure not a concept? Samsung n ko were workin on folder mobile screen and look at d disaster after launch

The hole punch is far better. You're not going to see Apple repeat this notch again. Even they know it's trash.

MeshachMARTINS:
UnderScreen camera is coming

If I understand correctly what u mean by undrscreen camera... Then I can say xiaomi has it on the Mi mix 2 already....

Kaydeexotic:


If I understand correctly what u mean by undrscreen camera... Then I can say xiaomi has it on the Mi mix 2 already....

no oo...this one the camera is inside the screen,just like the way fingerprint scanner are inside screen now

skyhighweb:
a tease? sure not a concept? Samsung n ko were workin on folder mobile screen and look at d disaster after launch

its not a concept...its a real life video
...
Samsung shot itself with that fold,something they have not test finish,they re announcing it in the name of first to do....the same thing that killed them with their note 7 want to kill them again

DrayZee:
The hole punch is far better. You're not going to see Apple repeat this notch again. Even they know it's trash.

Apple is very likely to keep the notch in iPhone 11, many leaks have suggested so!!

PhenomenalMorgan:

Apple is very likely to keep the notch in iPhone 11, many leaks have suggested so!!

they have no choice. The tech that makes the face id can't be minimised just yet to fit the punch hole size so they'll be stuck with the notch for the time being unless they go for normal face unlock (apple forbids!). Only solution is the undersceen camera or the in-display fingerprint scanner, but apple takes its time to adopt tech.

Big lie
(Okay not a lie but BIG SOMETHING)









Infact na lie

i still prefer no notch