It seems that most high-end smartphones will finally adopt a new design with symmetrical borders on all sides, as iPhones or some Android devices already do.
In a series of tweets, leaker Ice Universe revealed what we can expect when it comes to high-end smartphones in 2023. In particular, we now know that most devices will adopt the design of the Galaxy S22 for the screen, i.e. all borders will be the same. Most current smartphones still use a thicker bottom border, called the “chin”, which houses the connectors for the screen.
However, other devices such as the iPhone or the Nothing Phone 1 they use flexible screens capable of bending at the bottom to pass the connectors on the back. This trend should become widespread in 2023, with for example the long-awaited Xiaomi 13 which should finally adopt a design without edges. It is therefore expected that other high-end devices such as the Oppo Find X6 Pro, the OnePlus 11 Pro or the Galaxy S23 Ultra will all adopt a similar design for the front panel.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 could fix all the flaws of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
In other tweets, Ice Universe announced that in addition to a more modern design, most high-end smartphones of 2023 will benefit from the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which will be announced in November 2022. a simple new iteration of the current Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 produced by Samsung, the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 would be signed TSMC.
The new chip will therefore benefit from a more advanced burning process, which the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 recently took advantage of. The latter makes it possible to obtain a chip that is much more energy efficient, but above all less prone to overheating, the main haunting of smartphones released at the beginning of the year.
We also know that Qualcomm should focus on GPU performance, without forgetting to improve photo and CPU performance. Perhaps the best news comes from renowned analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who states that Samsung should equip all of its Galaxy S22s with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 next year. The Korean giant would not have succeeded in making its Exynos 2300 a competitor worthy of the Qualcomm chip.
The Galaxy S22’s four-bezel equal-width technology will be widely used in flagship mobile phones of major brands in 2023, including Xiaomi Mi 13.
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) July 8, 2022