14 DAY TRIAL // Despite the iPhone X notch being rather controversial and people having mixed feelings about it, Android manufacturers, especially those in China, are in a rush to bring it to their phones.
Samsung, on the other hand, which is currently considered Apple’s fiercest rivals, decided to stay away from the notch for the Galaxy S9, the model that launched in late February and which ships to customers this week.
But if Samsung indeed embraced the notch, this is how the whole thing would have looked like, according to a concept created by Martin Hajek. Without a doubt, Samsung copying the notch would have made the Galaxy S9 the number one iPhone X clone, especially as the whole world appears to be looking into this design.
Samsung and the notch
One of the possible reasons Samsung hasn’t brought the notch to the Galaxy S9 is because the device doesn’t actually need it. The notch was required on the iPhone X because Apple integrated 3D sensing modules that power the Face ID facial recognition system, but for the time being, Samsung doesn’t seem to be very keen on investing in such tech.
Recent reports indicated that 3D sensing tech are too expensive for the majority of Android OEMs, and Samsung offering such a feature would only increase the final price of their devices. As an alternative, the company does offer iris and facial recognition powered by the front-facing cameras, though accuracy and security are believed to be substantially lower as compared to Apple’s.
Google, on the other hand, hopes that more Android devices would embrace this controversial design feature and the next version of the operating system will be designed with support for the notch out of the box. Time will tell if Samsung is ready to adopt it or not, but for the time being, this is what the Galaxy S9 would have looked like should it had a notch.
