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I hoped this would be a campaign to stop the notch insanity on phones. Give us the full screen back! (I have a OnePlus 7 Pro -- I bought it precisely because i

• sp332 5y ago
  If your phone had a front-facing camera, you never had the use of the full front area. (Unless it was one of the weird ones with a pop-up camera!) A notch lets you use those odd-shaped blank spaces at the top of your phone for junk like a clock, and gives you more space for apps.
  • chungy 5y ago
    Besides that the notch is aesthetically displeasing, it's also impractical when you end up with more notifications than can even fit in the area left over. And yeah my phone is one of the "weird" ones with a pop-up camera. Solves the problem nicely.
    • Tagbert 5y ago
      If you mean the app icons in the menu bar, if you have a lot of them you should get either Bartender or Vanilla. They do a good job of hiding most of those icons until you need them and you can reveal them with a click.
  • zamadatix 5y ago
    I've had phones with pop-out, hole punch, notch, and full bar cameras, even one without any front facing camera at all. Hole punch struck the best balance IMO as it allows simple design, a decent camera, and takes up a small enough amount of space that it's not really jarring to just fullscreen content like it isn't there at all. For the new MacBooks I'm happy they at least did something other than full bar but I don't think the solution is the be all end all. For wishful thinking quality behind screen cameras would be the ultimate win in my book if anyone can pull it off properly without limiting other things too much.