OnePlus has a new idea for the perfect all-screen phone design

[Chris Smith]

• The OnePlus 9 is the next flagship phone from OnePlus, but the Chinese smartphone vendor is also working on innovations that might take longer to hit the market.
• A new patent discovery shows that OnePlus wants to create a perfect all-screen smartphone with a front-facing selfie camera.
• The selfie cam would not sit under the display, a direction others in the industry are pursuing, but in the thin bezels at the top of the phone.

It’s 2021, but the perfect all-screen phone design remains elusive. We currently have two design options available to smartphone makers, one for each ecosystem. Most iPhones get notches at the top, including an array of cameras and sensors that are needed to power Face ID. The handsets have small bezels around the screen except for the notch area. The iPhone 13 will supposedly feature a smaller notch than before. After trying all sorts of alternatives to the notch, Android vendors stuck with the hole-punch display design that Samsung has been using on its smartphones for three years now. Most Androids don’t have 3D face recognition, but some people like a tiny selfie camera hole better than the iPhone notch.

The ultimate dream is to do away with the bezel and place the selfie cameras and sensors under the display. Several companies have been working on under-display cameras, but we only have one commercial device featuring such a screen, an uninspiring ZTE mid-range handset. Under-screen cameras might come to laptops using Samsung OLED screens before smartphones, but that’s not the only option to create a perfect all-screen smartphone and keep the selfie camera on the front. OnePlus has come up with a different idea.

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