Patent application shows another way to nix the notch

by Alan Friedman Feb 08, 2019, 11:22 AM

A patent application filed by Xiaomi shows a phone with a curved edged display not only on the sides, but on the top and bottom as well. In fact, the design is used on the back and front of the phone.

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1. BCMWorld

Posts: 56; Member since: Mar 24, 2014

Wow simply wow, true definition of bezel-less phone

posted on Feb 08, 2019, 11:31 AM 1

9. Cat97

Posts: 1864; Member since: Mar 02, 2017

Too bad it's just on paper, anyone can draw something like that, the problem is when your try to build it :)

posted on Feb 08, 2019, 6:02 PM 2

2. Leo_MC

Posts: 7216; Member since: Dec 02, 2011

Good: the cameras and sensors will eventually go under the screen and we will be having displays that are going to fill the entire front of the phones.

posted on Feb 08, 2019, 11:55 AM 1

3. middlehead

Posts: 454; Member since: May 12, 2014

The easiest way to fix the notch is to stop crying about a little bit of bezel. You need a place to hold the phone anyway.

posted on Feb 08, 2019, 12:30 PM 11

4. j_grouchy

Posts: 173; Member since: Nov 08, 2016

Seriously. They come out with a phone with no bezels, then folks are like "ugly chin". They get rid of the chin and folks are like "but that forehead!". When they get rid of all four sides, folks'll be like "look at that HUGE bezel on the back...there's like, no screen there!"

posted on Feb 08, 2019, 12:41 PM 10

5. SyCo87

Posts: 298; Member since: Sep 19, 2013

I thought this was Samsung's plan initially for the S10. It's probably extremely challanging and costly to accomplish right now.

posted on Feb 08, 2019, 1:10 PM 0

6. Rocket

Posts: 642; Member since: Feb 24, 2014

https://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-patents-a-trapezoid-phone-with-flexible-display-sloping-over-the-bottom-edge_id74441

posted on Feb 08, 2019, 3:34 PM 0

7. Rocket

Posts: 642; Member since: Feb 24, 2014

https://www.phonearena.com/news/Slick-Galaxy-S7-edge-renders-build-on-top-of-existing-Samsung-patent-for-a-trapezoid-phone-design_id74744 Samsung's idea since 2015, xiaomi is trying to do what Samsung couldn't do back then.

posted on Feb 08, 2019, 3:38 PM 0

8. TBomb

Posts: 1402; Member since: Dec 28, 2012

I'll be interested to see how that screen corner bends... It's one thing to bend on a linear axis... but once you start changing the direction the pixels will be pulled apart in multiple directions. Images might get distorted in the corner