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Image copyrightHUAWEIImage captionThe Honor View20 was unveiled in Hong Kong
Two smartphone-makers have unveiled handsets featuring a "hole-punch" selfie camera.
The screens of the Samsung A8s and Huawei Honor View20 both feature a small circular space for the component.
The design is intended to be less obtrusive than a "notch" - as popularised by Apple and later by many Android smartphone manufacturers.
One expert said the innovation highlighted how competitive the market for mid-range devices had become.
'World first'
Both Samsung and Huawei claimed to be first to launch the notchless camera design.
The Chinese company may have slightly edged out its rival by unveiling its device at an event in Hong Kong a few hours before Samsung's launch.
But the South Korean company had previously hinted at the screen-engineering feat by showing off a line drawing of the feature in November.
Image copyrightSAMSUNGImage captionSamsung's Infinity-O screen design features a hole-punch selfie camera
Neither handset features the kind of facial identification sensors that spurred Apple to introduce a notch in the first place.
One industry-watcher said the phones instead represented mid-range devices, which made them a good match for the new look.
"Huawei is relentless at using the Honor brand to really grab as much share in the marketplace as possible," said Ben Wood, from the consultancy CCS Insight,
"This is a very important part of the market, particularly for Samsung with the professional pressure it is facing from Huawei."
Samsung was the world's most successful smartphone brand in the July-to-September quarter, when it shipped 72.2 million units, according to research company IDC.
Huawei came second, according to the same report, with 52 million devices shipped over the same period.
Image copyrightASUSImage captionThe Asus ZenFone 5 features a typical notch design for its selfie camera
But both companies face challenges.
Samsung has lost substantial market share in the mid- and lower-tiers to Chinese rivals over the past year, while Huawei faces claims it broke US sanctions on Iran and poses a wider security threat to the West.
Huge camera
Huawei also claimed the Honor View20's main camera, on its rear, represents another world-first.
It offers a resolution of 48 megapixels and is the first to use of a sensor made by Sony that was announced in July.
The benefit is that users can crop in more closely into their photos without risking them looking pixellated when printed out. But the downside is that higher-resolution shots take up more storage space.
Xiaomi has also indicated it will soon launch a handset with the same sensor.
Samsung previously announced it had created its own 48MP sensor but has yet to reveal in which handset it will debut.
Infinity Flex Display: Samsung folding smartphone is here, a technology that was thought to be futuristic, is already here!
After weeks of spoilers, Infinity Flex display has finally been presented during the Samsung Developer Conference 2018
A FIRST SIGHT
As you can see in the images, it’s a raw device, with thick layout and squared borders, but.. man it’s a folding device!
At a first sight it may seem a simple, outdated 7.3 inches tablet, but it is not.
You can easily fold it just like when you close your wallet and put it in your pocket jeans, and yes, it turns into a normal smartphone!
As announced by Samsung, this brand new device may run till 3 applications opened, at the same time. The display is made of two screens, and one of them is subdivided into other two parts.
The folding capability is given by a new plastic material used to build the screen. It gives the possibility to fold it over and over again, without noticing any signs of deformation.
Even though it is just a prototype, Samsung is fully convinced that it will be able to begin mass production within some months (and we believe them, it’s Samsung after all…)
If this AIO ( all in one ) device will be popular, the market of tablets will definitely go down. Who will be prone to buy just a tablet, when you can have also a handy smartphone?
TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Will it really be able to keep display consistency after thousands of opening-closing actions? If all the components are located only in the bigger part, will they overheat? Will the display show any signs of wear and tear, time passing by? …
We will be able to answer these, and other questions only when it will be available in the market, so we can only wait (with a bit of hype) that moment!
When the 4.3-inch HTC HD2 launched back in 2009, many said that the smartphone display could not get any bigger. But just a couple of years later, the Samsung Galaxy Note broke the 5-inch barrier with its 5.3-inch screen. Now, we have the Galaxy Note 9carrying a 6.4-inch display (see image at the top of this article) and there is even a 6.5-inch Apple iPhone XS Max. Screen sizes are primed to get even larger next year if reports out of Korea are right.
The Galaxy S10 may have a camera cutout in its display
Samsung recently unveiled four new Infinity Display models – two with a notch, one with a camera “cutout”, and the last one completely seamless. Called ‘New Infinity’, this notch-less screen didn’t get a lot of on-stage talk by Samsung, but by the looks of it, it could very well be the mobile display tech of the future.
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