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

Weibo users joke that it looks like a pair of nostrils. (Picture: VP科技兽 on Weibo)

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.
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