Samsung Galaxy S22 has this one thing other Android phones don’t

The Samsung Galaxy S22 smartphone is the most recent addition to the Samsung’s lineup. Being a flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S22 has all of the features that you would expect. However, it has one feature that you will not find on any other Android smartphone. We are not talking about faster performance or some proprietary chipset that may not be possible to include on other Android smartphones. We are actually talking about a design element that can be implemented on any smartphone but manufacturers don’t do it because it is difficult and costly. Besides the Apple iPhone, no other smartphones have managed to include this feature, not even Samsung smartphones of the past.

The design of the Samsung Galaxy S22 is beautiful with its simplicity. It has a frosted glass back that manages to hide the fingerprints and scratches. On the front, the Galaxy S22 has a 120Hz AMOLED display that has symmetrical and slim bezels that make this device look incredible. This is the main thing that sets it apart from all other Android smartphones that claim to have edge-to-edge screen. The Galaxy S22 doesn’t have a chin or a forehead, only symmetrical bezels that give it a very premium look and feel.

Why do Android Smartphone displays have a chin at the bottom?

With the introduction of iPhone X, Apple was the first smartphone maker to introduce a truly bezel-less smartphone. If you look at the iPhone X or any iPhone without the home button, you will notice that bezels around the screen are symmetrical. When Android smartphone makers tried to copy this design, one of the main glaring omission was that the fact that almost every Android smartphone has a chin at the bottom. The reason behind the chin is related to how displays fundamentally work. Any type of smartphone display (LCD or OLED or AMOLED) requires a thin strip with display controller that connects the display to the motherboard of the device. The connector piece has to fit somewhere and it has been placed at the bottom of the front display as the top usually needs space for cameras and sensors.

With the iPhone X, Apple came up with a new way to connect the display to the motherboard. In order to achieve a truly bezel less phone, Apple folds the bottom of the OLED display back underneath to move the display controller from the bottom to the back of the display. This technique is not possible with an LCD display as it is not flexible like OLED display, but Apple still managed to make the bezels symmetrical by making the bezels a little thicker on the iPhone XR with LCD display. In my opinion, the thicker bezels are much better than having a thicker bottom bezel, which gives the smartphone a very odd look and feel. The Samsung Galaxy S22 with AMOLED display has finally managed to achieve completely symmetrical look on the front display, and it looks just as good if not better than the Apple iPhone 13 Pro.

You might say, what is so special about symmetrical bezels and why should I care? Symmetry has been at the center of all designs as symmetries lie at the heart of the laws of nature. Even when we look at physics, Einstein got his motivation for developing the relativity theory by imposing symmetry on all frames of reference. When it comes to smartphones, the symmetrical bezels truly give the smartphone edge-to-edge display. As the display is a part of the smartphone that you will use most often, the design of the display becomes a very important topic. When a manufacturer claims to have edge-to-edge screen but decides to put a display with a chin (thicker bottom bezel), it not only undermines the design but it also shows that user experience is secondary to profit for the company.