This Smartphone Will Change Everything...

Sounds like the dream may be coming true

That dream, of course, is a notchless future. Notchless. That seems strange

A strange word. Is it even a word? We talked so much recently about all these notches on smartphones

Some people don't mind them. Some people hate them. But there is one player in the game that has remained notchless

And that is Samsung. They've been reluctant to adopt that type of design

and if you've looked at their recent products, S9, S9 Plus, Note 9

you notice there's still a traditional bezel, housing, speaker, housing, front-facing cameras

and maintaining a rectangular frame so you can watch video without a notch and not be distracted by it

Now, regardless of whether or not the notch is a big deal or bothers you a lot

you kind of have to admit that if there was a way to put the various sensors that you need on the front of your phone

if there was a way to put them under the display that would be a good thing

there's been so many different implementations and potential implementations of how this could happen

the Oppo Find X where it's like a motorized thing that comes up in the back

the Vivo Next which put like a little cube with the front facing camera that came up

but those were motorized, it required mechanical components, people were nervous that brings me to today's video, we have some evidence that Samsung is at work

that Samsung may very well be the first manufacturer to deliver on this promise of a bezel phone without the notch compromise Will it be the S10 Will it be a future version Not 100 certain but I do have an article here from my friend at Forbes Gordon Kelly

Samsung suddenly exposes radical new Galaxy smartphones. So there's a gadget leaker out there, Ice Universe, and he managed to get inside of a Samsung event at the Marriott Hotel in Shenzhen

There were some slides they were showing at this event kind of exposing some of the technology they're working on for future products

The first FOD, that is the fingerprint technology under the screen, a fingerprint scanner that lives in the location at the lower end of the screen

So you just you touch the visual part of the screen and it'll read your fingerprint through the display

But Samsung is going to take a different approach for how they implement it

They're expected to use ultrasonic pulses, which could use reverberation to build a complex 3D map of a user's fingerprint

That's quite a bit different than the implementation as it stands right now

The in-display fingerprint scanners that I've used, those are optical. They're taking an image of your finger

and those ones are a little bit less secure for that reason. So if Samsung is successful with this implementation

it should be more secure than what's out there right now. Next up, UPS, under screen sensor

including camera technology So you could have some kind of ambient light sensor and also potentially a forward camera right underneath the screen HOD touch technology

This is a type of haptic feedback that's supposed to be different than what we've seen up until this point

It's better at creating the actual sensation of a physical touch or a physical button

And lastly, SOD, that is screen sound technology. This is how you get around having to have forward-facing speakers, a speaker for the earpiece

In this scenario, the display itself, the glass, would be emitting audio

As this stands, this is just a slide from an event which was intended for industry people

And it could just be evidence of an eventual outcome. It could just be, it could just point in a direction that we're all assuming that Samsung would be working on something like this

Or it could be a lot more immediate. This could potentially come out in the next generation

or the following generation of Galaxy products. I think the fact that Samsung has been so reluctant

to adopt the notch is the important thing to consider here. As every other manufacturer has modernized their design

by including the notch, Samsung's been sitting back, watching, waiting. Maybe there's a reason for that

Maybe that's because they're further along with this new technology than we might be aware of at this point

I have to say, from my point of view, I'm excited. I am personally not a notch fan You guys all know this and it doesn matter which brand the notch is coming from I have equal hate for all notches of all kinds so for those of you on my pixel video that were

like you didn't talk enough about the notch I promise you I disabled the notch on my pixel

through developer options I don't like the iPhone notch and so on so this product here

If Samsung can make it relatively soon, it's right up my alley

That's interesting. All screen, all display without the compromise. Now Samsung is the right company for the job because Samsung's responsible for the displays

that are in your favorite mobile device. They're making displays for Apple, for the iPhone

They're making displays for Google, for the Pixel. So if anybody could create a transparent display capable of having a camera

a forward facing camera hidden underneath it, it would be them and they should be first

because they're making the tech, they're making the hardware. Where they may have weaknesses in the software department having to just put Android on there

and then their own skin on top of it, they don't have those weaknesses in hardware

No, they call the shots in hardware. So if someone can do it right, it's probably Samsung and it looks like they're already working on it

So if you're a notch hater like myself, you might not have to be without an option for very long

Let's hope that this development happens sooner than later. All I have to say is thank goodness somebody's working on it

We may have a notchless future