After unexpected end of Samsung Galaxy Note 7, the company has finally put all of its attention on future devices.
The company has planned to launch a new series of devices in 2017 but all eyes are waiting for the arrival of flagship smartphone the Galaxy S8.
Samsung taken up smartphone market by storm when it debut the Galaxy S7 and after the unexpected end of power house device Note 7, all eyes are now on S8 with a lot of expectations.
The experts already started speculation about the new Samsung devices, especially battery issue after Note 7 fire incidents.
Samsung has already started working on batteries since Note 7’s explosion issued which ended up discontinuing the device a lot sooner than planned.
With all of this curiosity, One of the big questions of 2017 will be how (or if) Samsung recovers from the double whammy of its disastrous Note 7 release and Google’s triumphant Pixel launch this year.
The company’s answer, it seems, is to push the boundaries of design with the next Galaxy S flagship phone, which Bloomberg today reports will feature an “all-screen” design.
Practically every smartphone nowadays has one contiguous piece of glass covering its front. But underneath that glass there’s usually a black frame surrounding the display, which houses essential parts like the earpiece, proximity sensor, front-facing camera, and home button — and it’s that bezel that Samsung is said to be removing.
An instructive example of what such a Galaxy S8 might look like is provided by Xiaomi’s recently introduced Mi Mix smartphone.
That device uses ultrasound for proximity sensing, repositions the selfie camera, and has a piezoelectric speaker built into the screen.a
Bloomberg’s report indicates that Samsung will replace its traditional physical home button with a virtual one that “will be buried in the glass in the lower section.”
It’s not immediately clear whether that means a capacitive key as we’ve seen on most other Android devices or a pressure-sensitive solution akin to Apple’s 3D Touch.
Certainly there must be some bezel, most likely at the bottom of the phone, as even the Mi Mix leaves a black strip at its bottom. Bloomberg goes on to say that there’ll be more than one S8 device, with the sizes likely being a reprise of this year’s 5.1-inch S7 and 5.5-inch S7 Edge.
Unlike this year, however, the next generation of Galaxy flagship phones will all have curved, “wraparound” displays.
The Bloomberg report closes off by noting that Samsung aims for a March release of the Galaxy S8, though that might slip to April, owing to new, more stringent testing procedures in the wake of the QA slip-up with the Galaxy Note.
The big thing that will be different in 2017, apparently, is that the screen bezels will be gone.
