Samsung Galaxy S10: so this is what the new notch-free design looks like. Or maybe not.
20.11.2018
Translation: Eva Francis
A new patent could reveal the final design of the Samsung Galaxy S10. It doesn’t have to disclose the shape, but it’s a strong indication of how the S10 might look.
The same is true of the new Samsung Galaxy S10 and the larger S10+. Or, rather, we have a suggestion of what it could look like.
Infinity-O as a gateway to all-glass screens
Before the analysis comes the image. This is what the new Galaxy S10 looks like. Maybe. Probably. Or not.
The lack of notch is particularly noteworthy. Samsung has never got in on the act, but the notch – a recess in the top of the screen which houses the camera and speaker – is something you expect on phones with an all-screen front. There is a small cut-out for the front camera, but rather than a design element, it’s just a round hole in the display. It looks adventurous, but it has to be optimised for the software just as the notch does.
Samsung and the concept behind the concepts
When we talk about the future of smartphones, especially Samsung models, it’s worth taking a look at the concept behind concept renderings and patents. Samsung is an enthusiastic patent submitter.
As a result, hardware manufacturers are extremely keen to patent even the vaguest of concepts. This makes aspects like the radius of a corner – 30 px on the blue image above – extremely exciting, with the potential to make billions and blow away the competition.
This is why Samsung struck preemptively and applied to patent virtually every design idea that the designer had come up with.
Samsung has called the design language of the speculative S10 in this article Infinity-O. At the latest Developer Conference, the South Korean company introduced its take on the notch concept. This includes concepts such as Infinity-U, Infinity-V and, by far the most exciting, New Infinity: a concept without any recesses in the screen.
But what about reality?
The fact is that we have hints of what Samsung has in store. Is it confirmation of the appearance of the Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+? No. But Samsung’s CEO DJ Koh did tell the Chinese media that the S10 series has undergone a radical redesign.
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