A smartphone device may have thin borders at the left, right, top, and / or bottom edges of the display screen. To accommodate, e.g., a front camera in
spite of a border that is too thin for a
camera module and lens, at least one corner of the display may be
cut out. Optical sensor(s), emitter(s), or the lens of a front camera may be disposed at the location(s) of the cutout(s). A wide-screen movie may be displayed in letterbox mode with horizontal bars above and / or below the movie, wherein the cutout(s) are located, at least partially, in the region(s) of the horizontal bars, thereby avoiding that larger parts of the movie are hidden by the cutout(s). In other embodiments, an uninterrupted
status bar may be displayed between a cutout in the upper-left corner and a cutout in the upper-right corner of the display.