Top Mobile Phone Trends to Watch in 2019

Hole-punch Displays

The hole-punch or punch-hole display, depending on whom you ask, is the most distinctive – or discreet – feature you can expect to see on upcoming smartphones with an edge-to-edge display. For the longest time, smartphone makers weren’t able to extend the screen all the way to the top edge because a space was needed for the selfie camera. With the iPhone X, Apple made the module, which also takes care of face recognition, a design feature: The notch was born, and despite naysayers, the design was widely copied.

But an elegant solution appeared with the launch of the Huawei Honor View 20, the first to feature an inconspicuous hole-punch cut-out in the display. It seems the idea is being rapidly adopted with the Samsung Galaxy S10e and S10 sporting the hole-punch display and