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In just the past two years notches have shown up on almost every flagship smartphone in the market. And today we’re going to find out why this design element has become so popular and what might happen to it in the future. Now when most people hear the word notch, they probably think of the iPhone X. Since it was the first popular flagship smartphone to include one. But the origins of the notch goes back to a lesser known device called the LG V10 released in 2015. This is a story we’ve heard before when it comes to Apple. They typically aren’t the first to bring a new piece of technology to market, but they almost always introduce a refined and modernized version of the technology to maximize functionality. And I think that’s the case with iPhone X’s notch. But that doesn’t explain why the notch design element was being used in the first place. Why not just keep the display perfectly rectangular by creating an even thinner bezel that could still house the earpiece, camera, and sensors? After all, that’s what many android devices like the Galaxy S8 began to do.
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SOURCES:

Origin Story

https://www.quora.com/How-do-people-k...

https://www.phonearena.com/news/histo...

https://mashable.com/2017/10/31/iphon...


Birth of the iPhone’s Notch

  / genuine_question_for_pronotch_android_user...  

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/31/rev...

   • How to navigate iPhone X's new gestur...  


Reception

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-4...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspen...

https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/ip...

   • Video  


Competition Concedes

https://www.businessinsider.com/andro...

  / the_clone_wars_iphone_x_copycats_battle_fo...  


https://www.quora.com/Why-is-OLED-dis...

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreak...

   • Dear Google...  


Future of the Notch

https://tech.co/news/2019-future-phon...