Since the introduction of the "full screen" design brought by Xiaomi with the Mi MIX series (sort of), every phone maker has been trying to bring the highest screen-to-body ratio achievable with the technology available on the market. As you all probably know, the first move adopted by many phone makers was the creation of a notch to keep the front selfie snapper in its place. That was followed by a pop-up camera mechanism on devices such as the Vivo NEX and the Oppo Find X.
In recent months, Xiaomi, Lenovo and Honor went with a sliding mechanism to hide the camera and other sensors below the display; this increased the StB ratio to numbers never seen before. Now, while that path doesn't seem the better one on a practical point, Chinese phone maker Huawei appears to be somewhat interested in still bringing a device with this design.
Honor Magic 2
Honor's president - Zhao Ming - said after the release of Huawei Mate X that “Honor will also be launching a foldable phone”. So it wouldn't be that surprising if in future Huawei will come back at Honor by borrowing the design of the Magic 2 slider phone. Alternatively, we might just be looking at a patent Huawei decided to put out just in case sliding phones go mainstream, which is something that doesn't seem very likely to happen at the time of writing.
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