Patent suggests Essential Phone 2 could come with no notch, no holes, and no bezels
The Essential Phone was one of the world's first notched handsets
Forget hole-punch displays, pop-up cameras, and screen cutouts of various sizes and shapes. If Essential's vision materializes, we could soon hold a phone in our hands that's all screen on the front. We're talking a 100 percent screen-to-body ratio, made possible by embedding the front-facing camera into the actual display of the Essential Phone 2. While the idea is not entirely new, the US-based, Andy Rubin-founded company could be the first to implement it into a commercial product.
Presumably, no one has released a phone with an in-display camera yet due to the difficulty of mass manufacturing a device like that. But we already have screen-embedded fingerprint sensors and speakers, so why shouldn't Essential dare to dream about taking the next step on the path to a truly borderless smartphone experience? After all, no one's expecting much from an Essential Phone 2 anymore, making it the ideal platform for experimentation.
Unfortunately, a few drawings included in a patent application filed all the way back in January 2017 and recently made public by the World Intellectual Property Office don't automatically mean this futuristic design is actually in the pipeline. It could be or the Essential Phone 2 may well approach the edge-to-edge goal as rumored just last month. Finally, there's also a good chance the company will never release a mobile device again.
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