The Motorola P-series is a new series that was unveiled by the Lenovo-owned company this year. The first of the P-series include the Motorola P30, Motorola P30 Play a.k.a Motorola One, and the Motorola P30 Note a.k.a Motorola One Power. A new leak has revealed the series will continue next year, starting with the Motorola P40.

The leak is a 360° video render and images courtesy of OnLeaks in collaboration with 91mobiles and they give us our very first look at the device.

A signature feature of the Motorola P30 series is the notch above the display. For the Motorola P40, Motorola is ditching that for what will be the trend of 2019 – a punch hole display. It is too early to say if the other P40 phones will adopt the same design.

The hole that houses the front camera sits in the top left corner and appears to be a tad bigger than that of the Samsung Galaxy A8s. The bezels don’t appear to have reduced and the one at the top is now even thicker. However, this is just a render and the device itself may be a bit different. The screen size hasn’t changed and remains 6.2-inches.

The rear of the Motorola P40 has also been redesigned. It is still home to dual cameras one of which is said to be a 48MP sensor but they look different now. The sensors are in the same housing, however, the LED flash now sits below the cameras instead of between them. The Motorola logo is black and is home to a fingerprint scanner.

Although this is the Motorola P40, there is the Android One logo at the base. The Motorola P30 didn’t launch outside China, so this means the P40 will get an international launch though most probably under a different name just like the other P30 phones. What do you think it will be called?

The Motorola P40 also has a USB-C port at the bottom and a 3.5mm audio jack at the top.

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Overall we are really diffing this color of the Motorola P40. The gradient color scheme is already getting boring and this coffee-like finish looks pretty dope. We don’t know about the rest of its specs yet but we expect it to come with a more powerful processor, probably the Snapdragon 660, a bigger battery, and better cameras.

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The Huawei Nova 4 will launch in roughly two weeks as one of the first phones to adopt the hole-in-display technology. The phone has appeared in public but we only got to see its front. New photos have now appeared online that not only show us the phone’s rear but also a closer look at its display.

From the photos, one can tell the Nova 4 is pretty big even with the shaved off bezels. It is also a bit wider than the average phone. The display practically stretches to the top part of the phone’s frame but on the bottom, there is still a bit of bezel. Sadly, none of the photos show the phone during media playback so we can see if the area where the camera is gets blacked out.

The photos reveal the Huawei Nova 4 will come in a gradient finish similar to the Iris Purple color variant of the Nova 3 though there is more of blue than purple in this case. We also get to see the phone’s triple camera setup which is the same design as that of the Huawei P20 Pro.

The display is said to be LCD so it is no surprise that the fingerprint scanner is on the rear of the phone. There is no photo of the ports but there is definitely a USB-C port and very likely an audio jack on the device.

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The Huawei Nova 4 is expected to come with a Kirin 980 processor, up to 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It should also pack a fairly large battery and run Android 9 Pie out of the box.

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It appears Samsung will indeed be the first manufacturer to launch a phone with a hole in its display. Earlier today, Huawei announced the Nova 4 which also has a hole in its display will launch on December 17. Now Samsung’s poster for the Galaxy A8s has surfaced and it shows the phone will be coming a week earlier.

The Galaxy A8s was first teased a few months ago at the launch of the Galaxy A9s and Galaxy A6s in China. Now, it finally has a release date and that day is December 10. The poster revealing the launch date was posted on the official Weibo account of Samsung mobile.

The Galaxy A8s will have its hole at the top left corner. The hole will be home to the front-facing camera. The poster has the text “Real Galaxy” written on the phone of the screen but there is also a Chinese text at the bottom that translates into “insight into the future”. This is probably a confirmation that the design (Infinity O display) will show up in future devices (read Galaxy S10 series).

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The Galaxy A8s is rumored to be powered by a Snapdragon 710 processor with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. It is reported to have a 6.39-inch display which is manufactured by BOE. Other specs include triple rear cameras in a 25MP + 5MP + 10MP configuration, a 24MP selfie camera, and a 3,400mAh battery. There are also rumors it may ditch the audio jack.

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HMD Global jumped on the notch train this year starting with the Nokia X6 which launched internationally as the Nokia 6.1 Plus. The Nokia 5.1 Plus (Nokia X5 in China) came next and then the Nokia 7.1 and the Nokia X7 which will launch globally as the Nokia 8.1.

If you don’t like these phones because they have a notch, then you may be comforted to know that HMD Global will not release another phone with a notch. The info comes from Twitter account Nokia anew (@nokiamobileru) which has posted details about Nokia phones that turned out to be true.

According to the account, the Nokia 6.2, which should be the successor to the Nokia 6.1/Nokia 6 (2018) will not have a notch. Instead, it will feature an “interesting solution” as the account puts it. The rest of the tweet says “Thus Nokia 8.1 can complete the Nokia “notch parade” in the Nokia line-up”.

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At the moment we can only guess what “interesting solution” HMD Global will use for its next-generation models. Will it be a display with a hole in it or will it be a slide mechanism? Our bet is on the former since there are reports some display manufacturers including China’s BOE are already making LCD displays with holes in them. And since the Nokia 6.2 will be a mid-range phone, it will definitely use an LCD display.

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