We already have our first big phone trend for 2019: the ‘pinhole’ notch

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Some people hate the notch and rue the day that Apple’s iPhone X gave it validation. Even though notches are necessary to create room for a front-facing camera, there’s no question it disturbs the symmetry of a true edge-to-edge display.

A few manufacturers have introduced solutions like a pop-up camera, Huawei’s next big smartphone release offers a different approach: instead of a notch, it’ll have a hole. In a teaser image, the top-left corner of the front of the device shows the kind of flare you might expect from a camera flash. That could be literally what it is, or maybe Huawei is taking some artistic license and alluding to a single-lens selfie camera. Read more…

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