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Forget the notch, your next smartphone might have a hole in the screen
Oppo, Huawei, Samsung might cut out holes in the screen for the selfie camera
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Every so often, the smartphone market is gripped by a new competition. We had the fight for the most megapixels in a camera. We had the race to be the smallest… and then the race to be the biggest.
Now it’s all about using as much of the front of the phone as possible for the screen. Which means companies have come up with clever solutions for dealing with the selfie camera. Apple, famously, embraced the notch. Vivo and Oppo hid the camera in a module that mechanically appears when needed. And Nubia put another screen on the back so you can take your selfies with the main camera.
What’s the next step? Holes.
Leaks suggest the newest Oppo phone won’t have a notch or a pop-up module -- instead, the selfie camera will be behind the screen, visible through two small holes in the display.
The device is still months away, so the real Oppo R19 could be very different from these photos. But it seems highly likely that it will use the hole design for the selfie cameras -- according to tipster Ice Universe, who assured posters on Weibo that the R19 will come in March next year with at least one camera hole on the display.
Xinmei Shen joined the Post in 2017 and is a technology reporter. She covers content, entertainment, social media and internet culture. Previously, she was with the Post’s tech news site, Abacus. Before that, she was a reporting intern at The Information whilst studying at the University of Hong Kong.
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