While most rumors have suggested there will be few design changes to the next - generation iPhone X and its larger Plus sibling, Korean site ET News also believes all three iPhones coming in 2018 will feature «less bezel and
a smaller notch design.
Not exact matches
It has stylish
design with slim bezels and very
small notch for front camera.
The main changes with the newer model include the
smaller and lighter
design, the addition of a Comfortlight Pro to adjust the frontlight color, and the waterproofing went up a
notch to an IPX8 rating.
That means there's no space on the frame for the camera, so, Essential has
designed the screen with a
small notch in the center for the lens.
While the
design trend this year is clearly revolving around displays with
notches and
smaller bezels, Vivo is ditching the
notch, the buttons and the external fingerprint readers, and putting everything into the display of the phone.
The Essential Phone was the first smartphone to be released with a
notch in its screen, and while its take on this particular
design trend is one of the least offensive ones we've seen, no
notch is always preferable over any sort of
notch — no matter how
small it is.
The Essential Phone has a much
smaller notch, but ASUS appears to have taken
design elements more from the iPhone X than or Android phones.
Xiaomi's alleged new device comes with a unique
design that harbours a
small notch on the top - left side of the display.
And you might be surprised by how little this
design differs compared to last year's iPhone X. First up, you'll notice that the iPhone in question has a
smaller notch at the top.
The iPhone X meanwhile was a completely new
design for Apple and in some ways it arguably looks more modern than Samsung's effort, with even less bezel on the front, and instead just a
small notch jutting into the screen.
The ZenFone 5 has a
smaller notch and even slimmer bezels than the iPhone X. Its display takes up 90 percent of the space on the front of the device — compared to 86 percent on the iPhone X — which makes for a very attractive
design.
This kind of
design has already been implemented by Essential for the PH - 1, albeit a
smaller display
notch specifically for the front - facing camera.
If this was about more space, you'd see more
designs like Essentials
small notch and LG v20's «second screen» (its a
notch) that actually maximize the screen size while just keeping as little as possible at the top of the screen and you would have seen this trend happen before the iPhone X launched.
Noted Apple watched Ming - Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is predicting that there will be three new iPhones in 2018, with the
smallest having the 5.8 - inch OLED screen of the iPhone X. Kuo adds, however, that the
notched, bezel-less
design will be carried over to two larger models: a 6.5 - inch OLED model, and a 6.1 - inch LED version.
The
design thankfully doesn't use a top
notch like the iPhone X but keeps the bezel size as
small as possible to justify the display.