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Upcoming HUAWEI phone’s display gives us a look at our notch-less future
June 29, 2025
Notch haters, rejoice! The upcoming HUAWEI Nova 4 was just shown off at a concert in China (viaWinFuture.de), and it appears to have a display that will help usher in our notch-less future.
As you can see in the images, the display on the unannounced Nova 4 features a small camera cutout on the top-left corner of the screen. This leaves room for almost a full status bar at the top of the phone, albeit one that starts slightly to the right of the front-facing camera. For those folks who have an extreme dislike for the notch, this is exciting news.
Popularized by the iPhone X, the notch has been the most controversial smartphone design decision in the last year. I don’t know many people wholikedisplay notches — most people just put up with them.
We could see more smartphone manufacturers adopt these new displays going forward. Not only is HUAWEI clearly testing them out,Samsung recently announceda new Infinity-O display that utilizes the same concept seen on the Nova 4. In fact, the Galaxy S10is rumoredtofeature an Infinity-O display.
Aside from the new display, the HUAWEI Nova 4 looks to feature very minimal bezel around the screen. It also looks like it’s wrapped in a case, so we’re unable to tell many other design features. If you’d like closer look at the phone, skip to roughly the35:30 mark in this video.
Thoughts on this new display? Would you be happy if OEMs ditched the notch and instead used these screens? I sure would be.
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