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20-19 looks like it's gonna be here filled with a lot of phones with punch-out camera holes and it kind of begs the question our punch out camera holes actually better than notches like we're seeing this type of camera style coming out on the galaxy s 10 and we've seen it on hallways and over for and one of the honor phones has it hole punch phones are gonna be a thing this year like it or not and as I see more of these phones come out it just makes me wonder are these hole punch phones actually better than notch phones or are we kind of being sold this idea that they're better by companies and if you think back to the original notched phone like why companies did it if you think back to like the essential phone they were trying to achieve a particular stetic right they wanted to minimize the kind of obstructions and protrusions on the front of that screen to make it look altra clean on the front and they did a pretty good job of it in 2017 that's almost two years ago two years later we have notches on phones with a water drop shape that looks pretty clean and then we have some phones that are just like BAM I heard you like notches here's a notch so for me I really like the idea of a hole punch screen it looks so much cleaner and honestly looks refreshing to me from all those notch phones that we saw over the course of 2018 a circular hole punched camera looks really nice and even some of the earlier conceptual work that I did it was really fun to work with like being able to see your wallpaper move over that hole punch was just super cool but there's a part of me and it's not even that small part of me there's like a reasonable part of my brain that's like are we just being had are we just being played by companies because if you think about it bezels were fine before like bezels give you a nice black thing to hold on you're in landscape mode they give you front-facing speakers and removing those bezels was something that looked nice but it was really unnecessary notches and hole punch phones were basically fixing a problem that never existed for the consumers if anything notches and punch out cameras are fixing a problem from manufacturers the problem of how do we sell people more phones like how do we sell you a new device a replacement device of something that you already own that's already really good like how do we convince you to buy something that's new this is the way right when I look at models and concepts with the s10 it looks so cool and forget the fact that it's like an awesome phone like seven nanometer chip bigger battery all that stuff it's gonna be a great phone but the fact that it looks the way it does makes me more interested but I want to know what you guys think like is the hole punch screen is that something that you guys find a substantial enough feature to make it more of a compelling purchased for you like is that a big enough shift in technology for you to be like hey that's the phone that I'm interested in because we've seen iterative changes in phones for a long time this to me is one of the bigger ones and the weird thing is we know that Samsung is working on an even better screen right one without any visible front facing camera and that is a technology that's endgame right that's the phone that manufactures want to sell that's the phone that every consumer wants to buy that completely clean front-facing display but even though we know that that's something they're working on and it's probably not that far away in the future this phone that s10 looks super cool to me but is that enough for you guys is that hole-punch camera something that you guys want or did you prefer the knotch or are you gonna hold out for that completely clean phone and I think we're probably gonna get there sooner than later okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs we loved it see you guys next time