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Apple made it premium, but phones had notches before them. Sharp and Essential phone come to mind. Sharp in particular has had fully bezel-less phones for yea
by emptyfile 8y ago
Apple made it premium, but phones had notches before them. Sharp and Essential phone come to mind.
Sharp in particular has had fully bezel-less phones for years, I honestly though their camera on the bottom design would be copied way before the weird notch.
- misterprime 8y agoI fondly remember the "2nd screen" of the LG V10 and V20. When I first saw the notch I figured it would be an awesome implementation of LG's 2nd (and 3rd) screen. I was wrong thought. It's the full screen and part of it is cut out as you can see when watching videos and playing games. Sad day that it is being copied.
- ThatPlayer 8y agoI'm currently still using the V20 and like it, but do think that as the notch gets smaller, you lose the available space for functionality like the LG's second screen. Of course ideally, the notch gets smaller, not like the Pixel.
- floatboth 8y agoEssential is also rather premium :) but they had a very different notch, very small (just for the camera).
- notatoad 8y agoEssential wanted to be seen as premium, but i don't think they're the ones driving any customer perception of notches being premium.