{"id":6172,"date":"2018-03-15T01:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2018-03-15T01:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T01:30:46","slug":"smartphone-notches-newest-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/smartphone-notches-newest-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone Notches &#8211; The Newest \u201cIn\u201d Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Smartphone Notches &#8211; The Newest \u201cIn\u201d Trend<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Notch.jpg\" alt=\"notch\" width=\"460\" height=\"282\" \/><br \/>\nWith recently concluded MWC 2018 in Barcelona, a trend started during the introduction\/launch of the newest line-up of the latest Smartphones.<br \/>\nIt was the Essential Phone who started the next \u201cIn\u201d feature for Smartphones but it was the Apple iPhone X which inspired the others to follow \u2013 The Smartphone Notch as it is now known has been a somewhat staple of the nature of majority of the newest offerings from ASUS, Huawei, LG and Oppo among others.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Notch-2.jpg\" alt=\"notch-2\" width=\"460\" height=\"277\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>The LG G7 leak from MWC 2018 and Oppo F7 Teaser \u2013 LG G7 photo courtesy of YNet<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nSmartphone designs have been slowly but surely trending towards the point wherein bezels shall be considered as an afterthought \u2013 With this direction, Smartphone manufacturers are scrambling to offer the closest possible feature to its consumers.<br \/>\nWith the top notch being introduced, the standard aspect ratio has now shifted from 16:9 to 18:9 \u2013 As started by the Smartphones that were introduced last year with minimal bezels(LG G6 and Samsung S8).<br \/>\nThis new trend is neither a good or a bad thing \u2013 The notch allows the manufacturers to maximize the top of the screen by minimizing the bezel to house the phone speaker and front-facing camera \u2013 Though apple needed the notch to house their unlocking feature.<br \/>\nThe verdict is still split among critics \u2013 We have people that applaud the move towards a close to bezel-less approach by the manufacturers. To those simply saying that they are mere iPhone X. The fanboys will long debate the issue for the foreseeable future on why there is a notch, will there still be a need for the notch or are they just piggybacking on the notch.<br \/>\nFor now, we wait and see if The Notch is indeed the next big trend for Android Smart Phones for 2018.<br \/>\nFor more Tech Lifestyle features go over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/\"><strong><em>Techbeatph.com<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone Notches &#8211; The Newest \u201cIn\u201d Trend With recently concluded MWC 2018 in Barcelona, a trend started during the introduction\/launch of the newest line-up of the latest Smartphones. It was the Essential Phone who started the next \u201cIn\u201d feature for Smartphones but it was the Apple iPhone X which inspired the others to follow \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techbeatcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6179,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6172\/revisions\/6179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}