In 2018, the biggest trend in smartphone design among Android phone makers was simple: copy Apple. Nearly every smartphone vendor on the planet used Apple’s iPhone X design on their own phones. It was pretty embarrassing, to say the least. Moving toward “all-screen” phone designs became a top priority this year though, and the iPhone X’s notch was the best way to improve screen-to-body ratios.
Apple wasn’t the first company to use a notch in its smartphone display, but it was Apple’s design that Android phone companies chose to copy. Beginning in late 2018, however, Android vendors finally began to come up with their own designs. We’ve seen all sorts of different solutions for increasing screen size and reducing bezel size, though most of them so far have been pretty horrible. A perfect example can be found on the Oppo Find X, which has a selfie camera that slides up mechanically from behind the display. It’s practically begging to be damaged, and it makes using an effective case impossible.
Thankfully, much better notch-free designs will become prevalent in 2019, such as the Galaxy S10’s Infinity-O screen that has a small hole cut out for the front-facing camera. There will still be some terrible design trends in 2019 though, and the worst one has already hit the market.
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Behold: The stupidest smartphone design trend of 2019 is already here now originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 10:22:26 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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