Apple launched a smartphone with a mid-hole-punch screen design - iPhone14 Pro series. This is the first time that Apple has adopted a hole-punch screen design on iPhone; unlike the current mainstream Android flagship phones, Apple does not open a small hole in the middle. In order to put the Face ID module, Apple adopts a double hole-punch design.
Perhaps Apple also knows that the design of the middle double holes is ugly, so it has introduced a brand new feature - Lingdong Island, which can display some messages around the Face ID module, greatly expanding the functionality of the Face ID location; perhaps in the eyes of Apple designers, the Lingdong Island design makes the iPhone 14 Pro look less inconsistent.
Before this, many Android mobile phone manufacturers also launched smartphones with dual-hole designs, such as Redmi K30 5G and Huawei P40 Pro. The last Mate series smartphone using Kirin chip - Huawei Mate40 Pro also adopted a dual-hole design. At that time, the design of this machine was also ridiculed by many netizens.
However, it is worth mentioning that the dual-hole design of Huawei Mate40 Pro is also for the purpose of achieving 3D facial recognition function, which is different from many Android phones with dual-hole designs; of course, there are also some dual-hole design smartphones for putting two selfie lenses, such as Huawei Nova10 Pro is such a product.
The first Android phone with a mid-mounted dual-hole design is Xiaomi Civi 2, which is a smartphone that focuses on selfies. The dual-holes of this phone are the same as Huawei nova10 Pro, and are all designed to put in two cameras. The front of the Xiaomi Civi 2 is two 32-megapixel lenses, one of which is an ultra-wide-angle lens, which greatly improves playability.
In fact, with the popularity of the iPhone 14 Pro series, the Lingdong Island design will definitely be followed by Android phone manufacturers; Android phone manufacturers will definitely get news from the supply chain in advance and launch similar products, so there may be many Android phones similar to the iPhone 14 Pro series released next, and the prices of these machines will be much lower.
Honor recently announced that the Honor 80 series will be released soon. The back of the series of machines is still a "double round" design, but the front adopts a completely different design from previous generations of machines - a double hole in the middle, which makes the front of the machine look the same as the iPhone 14 Pro series. However, Xiaozhai speculated that the machine does not support 3D facial recognition, and it is likely to use a front dual camera lens to improve the playability of selfies, and the purpose is the same as that of Xiaomi Civi 2.
