According to Korean industry reports, LG Display is supplying flexible OLED panels to Huawei for the first time ever. The displays supplied by the Korean giant are the ones of the new Mate RS flagship, which is actually the most powerful, innovative and expensive smartphone ever released by Huawei. It is a sort of crossover between the P20 Pro and the Mate 10 Pro, and its aesthetics have been realized in cooperation with Porsche Design. The panel supplied by LG Display is a curved edge-to-edge display with a size of 6 inches.

Unlike the P20 Pro, it does not have a notch and it shows images at a Quad HD+ resolution of 1440 x 2880 pixels, with an 18:9 aspect ratio. The flexible OLED display of Huawei Mate RS Porsche Design also features an in-screen fingerprint scanner just like the Vivo X20 Plus UD, thanks to the new chip unveiled by Synaptics. Even though there is an in-display fingerprint reader, the phone still sports an additional back-mounted fingerprint reader. The device has been launched with a starting price tag of about $2000 and it sports an octa-core Kirin 970 chipset, 6 GB of RAM and up to 512 GB of internal storage depending on the variant.

It even sports the same triple camera setup that you can find on the P20 Pro. The triple camera is composed of a 40 MP sensor with a f/1.8 aperture and OIS, a secondary sensor with a resolution of 20 MP (f/1.6) and a third 8 MP sensor (f/2.4). Currently, LG Display also supplies panels to LG Electronics and Xiaomi, while the OLED panel of the Apple iPhone X is supplied by Samsung. LG is expected to supply more OLED panels to Huawei in the future, even though more than 95 percent of the mobile OLED market is currently owned by Samsung. Huawei is actually the third smartphone brand in the world.

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Xiaomi’s CEO, Lei Jun has confirmed that the Mi Note 2 exists and this has led to the flood of numerous leaks about the device. We have already seen a working prototype of a flexible display smartphone from Xiaomi, alleged to be the Mi Note 2. Today, we have got some new images and renders of the Mi Note 2, this time featuring a true bezel-less display, on all the four sides. In fact, the phone looks a lot like the Sharp Aquos Crystal model which was released a few years back.

There are both, real life images as well as renders of this bezel-less smartphone. The phone is indeed without any significant borders on any side and it is possible that the display is supplied by Sharp. Because of its design, the phone looks great, however, we couldn’t find a camera on the top, which is not a practical design in this age, considering how users are obsessed with selfies.

Apart from the real life images, there are a couple of renders of the device as well. They reveal a simple yet elegant design language, with no bezels on any side, even eliminating the physical home button. However, it’s possible that the fingerprint sensor is located on the front, below the display, if it’s a Qualcomm 3D Sense Ultrasonic sensor.

This bezel-less design seems much more plausible than the flexible display design that we saw a couple of days back. Just a few minutes ago we reported that the Mi Note 2 could use curved OLED panels supplied by LG. The earlier report said that the display would be curved but this design is a lot different than what we anticipated.

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To be honest, this design looks good, but the Mi Note 2 is probably not going to feature such a bezel-less look. Something more practical would be a curved display design, similar to the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.

Since the CEO has confirmed the phone’s existence, we can expect the Mi Note 2 to release in the coming few weeks.

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