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Honor View 20 smartphone features a 48MP camera (and a hole-punch display)

Samsung’s hardly the only company working on smartphones with hole-punch displays. Huawei sub-brand Honor has just unveiled its first phone with a tiny hole in the screen for front-facing camera. But it’s the rear camera on the Honor View 20 which may be more interesting — it’s a 48MP camera with a Sony IMX586 image […]

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Samsung Galaxy A8s is the first phone with an “Infinity-O” camera hole

Samsung’s Galaxy S10 phones are expected to feature punch holes in the display rather than notches when they launch next year. But the company isn’t waiting until then to launch a phone with an “Infinity-O” display featuring a small hole around the camera. Meet the Samsung Galaxy A8s. Not only will the Galaxy A8s be […]

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Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus leaked: Dual front cameras make a hole in the screen

Smartphones with notches in the display are old hat… and now phone makers appear to be in a race to bring the first phone with a hole in the display to market. Huawei and Vivo are both expected to announce smartphones this month with holes in their displays for the front-facing camera. And after teasing […]

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Would you rather have a phone with a slide-out camera, or a hole in the screen?

As the war on bezels continues, smartphone makers seem to be falling into one of three camps this year. There are phones with slimmer-than-in-the-past bezels. There are notch-phones with a cut-out near the top of the display for a front-facing camera. And recently we’ve seen the addition of a third category: phones with slide-out or […]

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Hate smartphone notches? How about a hole in the display?

In an attempt to give phones a higher screen-to-body ratio, most major smartphone companies have settled on a solution: phones with taller screens and slimmer bezels… often with a display that wraps around a camera cut-out, or notch. A few companies, including Vivo and Oppo have figured out how nearly eliminate the top bezel without […]