In a bid to provide customers with smartphones bearing minimal amount of bezels around the display, smartphone OEMs have adopted different styles of notch design. Even though the notch offers us a higher screen ratio, they are not very popular with fans. Most fans would rather not have a phone with the notch. No doubt, the era of flagship phones with 16:9 aspect ratio is gone so OEMs have ventured into sliding and pop-up camera designs as alternatives to the notch. But then, we have to grapple with the challenges of having a mechanical sliding design that raises concerns about durability. Huawei may have got a workable alternative to the notch that doesn’t involve using a slide or pop-up selfie cam.
The smartphone as envisioned in the patent document sports a notchless display which is joined by a thin chin and side bezels. Huawei is by all accounts playing with the possibility of an adjusted upper bezel. The top edge is curved in a pattern similar to Meitu’s iconic phone design. The outward curve creates enough space to house the selfie camera and audio receiver speaker. However, the design doesn’t look any spectacular.
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Huawei’s design will in all likelihood be utilized solely in the low-end and mid-tier segment whenever it is ready to be commercialized. In any case, since this plan is essentially a patent at this stage, there’s no assurance the tech giant will ever release a phone with this sort of design.
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