Here comes the next silly smartphone design shift

One of these weeks, we’ll see a new smartphone design trend that’s actually advantageous to us — the ten-fingered terrestrial animals who carry these technological creations around in our pouches and/or trousers.

This, unfortunately, is not that week.

This week, y’see, the internet’s a-buzzin’ about an eye-catching new Android-based gizmo by the Chinese phone-maker Oppo (which is on some level connected to Android fan favorite OnePlus and frequently serves as a predictor of future OnePlus designs). It’s something Oppo calls the “Waterfall Screen” — a “borderless” phone concept that has the display extending beyond the face of a phone and curving completely around its left and right edges.

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