Because you never have to wait for the iPhone X, the iPhone that is loaded with the start button and the Touch ID, apostándolo todo por el reconocimiento facial seguro con sensors que no cabían en otro site salvo en una enorme ceja en the upper portion. In the next five years Apple cut the notch and now it’s finally killed it. More or less.
The reign of the notch is over, but only on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max: the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus remain as they are (almost literally). And how did Apple manage to get out of the notch? With the same solution that explores Android since 2018: the camera punched into the screen. But high time.
five years of eyebrows
The iPhone X of 2017 accelerated the tendency to push the screen to the limits forward, eliminating the keyboard (or button, in the case of the iPhone) for good, although there was one problem: the front camera. Technically Apple could have implemented Touch ID on the side or the back, but by definition the front camera has to go forward.
The Cupertino company solved both problems with a slice or, rather, with a swipe. The notch was born a “tab” that bursts at the top of the screen
The notch caused a stir of all kinds with the public, although Apple wanted to make it clear it was here to stay, inviting users and developers to accept it: there was no turning back. And he wasn’t lying. The same notch remained virtually unchanged over the following years and it would take a ruler to appreciate the millimetric differences between them.
Four years later, Apple finally managed to reduce the notch on the iPhone 13, no longer being very different from what we found, for example, in the Huawei Mate 30 of 2019. That’s something else: the space on either side of said notch was much looser and the feeling w as more to have a top part with a little thing in the middle than to have a big thing with screen stubs on the sides. It is not the same.
Android was inspired but evolved in its own way
We go back to the time of the launch of the iPhone X and it is undeniable that the majority of the leaders of Android mobile manufacturers took good note of it. Over the next year, the notch invaded Android, and for all the wrong reasons. The eyebrow caught the eye, that’s undeniable, and there were those who wanted to ride the fashion bump to receive a bit of it, though those notches didn’t make much sense because they didn’t have face ID
An Android mobile with a large notch for pure aesthetics
The big iPhone-style notch was present in a handful of mobiles, but it didn’t materialize and instead ended up imposing the drop-shaped notch as a universal solution. Later, something even more discreet would arrive: the front camera punched into the screen.
Samsung announced its first mobile with the front camera punch-hole in the screen with 2018 in its last days, the Galaxy A8 with Infinity-O screen, and the trend was quick to take hold, especially among premium mobiles, to extend in the following years to practically all ranges except the cheapest . All this, with a crazy period of experimentation where there was no shortage of motorized or pop-up cameras like the Huawei P Smart Z or sliding mechanisms, like those of the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3.
Since then, Android makers have flirted with the idea of include the front camera under the screen, although it remains more of an experiment than a solution for the masses, at least for now. At present, the punch-hole in the screen is still the preferred solution for the masses, with the teardrop notch as an alternative for the cheaper ranges. All of this evolution happened in Android as Apple cut its notch down to millimeters.
From the eyebrow we went to the island
We go back to Apple in 2022 and the company has finally decided to end the notch, but only on its most powerful and expensive phones. From the anchored eyebrow at the top, we move to an island that does not stop. It’s approximately the notch of the iPhone 13, but now floating on the screen. The rest is taken care of by the software.
After five years of notching, Apple has perfected the technique of hiding that thing in the middle of the screen with all sorts of tricks, and you have to admit that in this latest iteration, they’ve put all the meat on the grill. Instead of drilling a little hole so we can forget about it, drilling takes center stage, animating and expanding to display additional information. Is not a Thumbtackit’s a characteristic.
This same information could be displayed without problems on the sides of said perforation, as usual, but Apple’s solution allows us to momentarily forget that there is a pill of sensors covering our upper part from the screen. At least, while we use the mobile vertically.
Five years later, Apple came to the same conclusion as Android As for what is the best solution to integrate the front camera, although the stubbornness to keep Face ID instead of going back to a Touch ID which could perfectly be included under the screen makes the implementation quite different (it’s is one word, big) from that of Android. And all this, without having to try anything new, but looking aside at what others are doing.
