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The android design trends tag follows the shift from display notches to hole-punch camera cutouts in Android smartphones. It highlights how Samsung’s Galaxy A8s, Huawei’s Nova 4, and the Honor View 20 introduced similar approaches in late 2018, using small circular openings to create a more continuous-looking screen. These devices illustrate how phone makers competed to reduce visible interruptions while under-display cameras were not yet ready for mainstream use. The coverage focuses on the hardware design experiment itself, the rapid adoption of Infinity-O-style displays, and the changing visual direction of Android phones during this period.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Galaxy A8s, Nova 4 and Honor View 20: How Hole Punch Screens Beat the Notch

    Samsung and Huawei pushed the Android phone industry into its next display experiment in December 2018, when Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A8s with an Infinity-O camera cutout and Huawei prepared the Nova 4 and Honor View 20 with similar “hole-punch” screens. The notch was not dead, but its...