Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission.Learn more.
Samsung design patent reveals a notch and we can already hear the screams
June 19, 2025
Samsung has submitted a patent application for a smartphone design that includes a display “notch.” The patent application was picked up byMobielkopen[translated]after being submitted to the Chinese patent officeSIPOby Samsung on August 05, 2025.
The design reveals a “bezel-less” device with a dual-camera setup on the rear, USB Type-C port, and volume and power buttons where you would expect. It looks like a regular, modern smartphone, though it’s lack of a physical fingerprint scanner suggests one would be housed in the display.
It’s also the first hint that Samsung is potentially pursuing a device with a cutout at the top of the screen.
The feature is currently acontroversial topicin the Android community after it waspopularized on the iPhone Xlast year. Many Android OEMs have since incorporated this type of design into their devices, thoughdevelopersandmanufacturersalike have devised ways to disguise it.
Samsung’s potential adoption of the notch, as the world’s biggest smartphone OEM, would be another nail in the coffin of the “un-notched” display — something that may devastate many Android fans.
Patent submissions are not, however, a confirmation of what we’ll see in upcoming devices: tech companies produce many patents, often as acompetitive tacticrather than because it represents something they actually want to build.Mobielkopenalso dug-up a similar Samsung patent for a device that is believed to feature a99% screen-to-body ratio, which could be years away from commercialization if it’s even produced at all.
It’s nonetheless an interesting development — particularly due to the timescales. Samsung hadboastedabout the lack of a notch on theGalaxy S9at MWC 2018 only in February (it also poked fun at it inan advert last year). Maybe Samsung isn’t as opposed to the notch as it wants everybody to believe.
For the “traditionalists” among you who are cut up about what this news proposes, look on the bright side: at least the headphone port is still there.
Well, in one of the designs, anyway…
Thank you for being part of our community. Read ourComment Policybefore posting.
