When Apple introduced the iPhone X, complete with its monobrow or notch, it was ridiculed by everyone left and right, but since then, many Android companies have followed suit by emulating design trends, and this includes some of the biggest names of the smartphone industry. .
And now, it seems like the biggest Android phone maker of all of them and Apple's main rival, Samsung, is set to join the notch screen trend as well despite the company's ridicule of notching its own iPhone X in its advertising.
Initially noticed by mobielkpopen.net, the Chinese Patent Office has issued a new patent owned by Samsung Electronics and requested patent protection for design which, you guessed it, has a notch on the top of the screen.
This patent is dated March 30, 2018 and is visible, for all intents and purposes, such as the iPhone X. Not only a few, but many, though admittedly, the notch itself is smaller than the iPhone X, which in turn will allow unannounced phones to have a screen ratio -to-body better than the current iPhone X, but that's probably because it will not place a sophisticated facial recognition sensor like the Apple TrueDepth sensor on iPhone X.
Behind the curve, the eagle eyebrow will note the lack of a fingerprint sensor on the back of the device, indicating that it will eventually be placed under the screen as it has been rumored for a long time and actually achieved by some of the lesser profile companies. Also noticeable is the dual-camera location on the back that looks like taken directly from iPhone 7 Plus / 8 Plus.
It's not entirely clear what this patent will turn out to be, if anything, though the Galaxy Note 9 is expected to arrive fairly quickly and will definitely have a price tag to match iPhone X, though we'll have to wait to see if this patent is for something a bit lower than Samsung roadmap than mid 2018.
