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The future of phone design
hesmartphone camera
notchisoneofthe
more divisive design
decisions of recent
years. It’sdesignedto address a
genuine issue: when phones are
almost entirelymade of screens,
where do you put thefront-facing
camerasandrelatedsensors?
Somefirms have gone down the
sameroadasApple,withvarying
degrees ofsuccess at making the
resultlookslick.Butin2019,thebig
phone makers are takingabigstep
forward, with new approaches to
making this year’shandsets the
mostfuturistic-looking tech of
all time.
Forastart,it’sgood newsfor
anybodywholovedtheMatrix
Nokiasofthelate 1990 s: slidersare
back! Back! BACK! Honor, Xiaomi
and Lenovo are all launching adesignthatleavestheheftyscreens
pure and un-notched, and makes the
displayitself slide down instead.
The Honor Magic 2 is agreat
example of the slider approach: its
three(!) front-facingcameras are all
hiddenbehindthe6.2 9 -inchAMOLED
main screen, andallyou needtodois
slidethescreendowntoexpose them.
Itreallyworks:yougetallthebenefits
of an almost bezel-freephone without
sacrificing on the camerafront. An
in-displayfingerprint reader handlesThe Honor Magic 2 has
a “nearly 100%” screen-
to-body ratio thanks to
its slider
T
TheHonorMagic2usesits(deeply
satisfying) slider to house three
front-facing camerasg