Stefan Mileschin

The phone trends in 2019

There is a clear trend toward a whole uninterrupted screen for end users to enjoy on their phones and every year we are getting closer to that. The trend includes more cameras, slide, and pop-up, all helped by computation and AI.

We went from a small square screen in the early smartphone days to a rather large screen that keeps getting less and fewer interruptions. The logical step was to introduce the notch, that was, quite frankly, rather large at the beginning. The company that is hopefully coming back with a new phone this year, Essential, figured the trend quite easily and so did Xiaomi with the Mix series.
Teardrop, slide, pop up

Late 2018 was the start of the teardrop notch, very small and discrete and Samsung and a few others ended up having a cut-down screen too. These are just small steps towards showing a whole uninterrupted screen.

Oppo Find X was one of the first, and it introduced us to a pop-up camera that some other OEMs solved with a sliding solution. They address the same problem and are a clear way to get the uninterrupted and immersive screen.

A cut down screen is just a temporary solution as there is a serious chance that the front face camera lens will be able to live behind the phone screen in the future.

The only issue with the full view screen and a slide, pop up solution are that face unlocking might become difficult and some people are somewhat used to it today.

Below screen fingerprint scanners are here to stay, primarily due because many financial institutions keep insisting on fingerprint rather than an iris or face scan today.

Consumers end up unlocking their phones more than 100 times a day, which is alarmingly a lot and makes people question how much time they're willing to waste on the fun device.

Samsung’s approach with a cutdown screen is noticeable as it does interrupt the viewing pleasure with the dark holes that pop up rather a dominant beautiful screen.

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