Asus ZenFone 5
Google last Wednesday revealed a new Android major update, Android P, among the new features there is supporting for displays with a notch for the devices that they have already announced or planning to adopt iPhone-X-style display.
Google announced that Android P offers to support what it is described "the latest edge-to-edge screens with display cutout for camera and speaker," which will help developers to outline the size and shape a notch on Android devices.
It seems it’s a notch display era despite the rumors that Apple is working to get rid of it and the controversy accompanied the release of the iPhone X which many users dislike the design even Samsung didn’t miss the opportunity to poke fun at the notch in one of its commercial videos and also made the company’s representative on the stage at the releasing of Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, but the infection is ongoing.
The notch style adoption isn’t only limited to small Chinese smartphone manufacturers like The Leagoo S9, is $150 iPhone X clone or Dogee V5 which is in addition to iPhone X-style it features an in-display fingerprint sensor, the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was the occasion where many other iPhone X clones showed off and many of them feature high-efficiency components like OLED display,16M camera, Qi wireless charging, 182 GB storage and more while others were very modest like Blackview A30 it will retail for around $40 with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage.
Leagoo S9
One is maybe considering a well-known in tech and smartphone industry, Asus with its recently released ZenFone 5 which has a notch, it is pretty much like one in iPhone X and when it was launched at MWC in Barcelona Asus bragged that its notch is 26 percent smaller than one on iPhone X and the device has a 90 percent screen-to-body ratio versus 86 percent in the iPhone X.
Asus ZenFone 5
The companies are said to adopt the notch design and have their fingerprint in the smartphone industry are LG with its upcoming G7 and Huawei, and with Android P we will likely see more Android phones with the notch emulating the iPhone X.
Apple resorted to the notch instead of the complete bar at the top of the iPhone in an effort to maximize the available display area. The notch in iPhone X is housing a TrueDepth camera system with that supporting FaceID, Android companies using Apple’s design didn’t use it with the same way many of them depend on fingerprint sensor as a primary authentication method or by emulating Face ID depending on the 2D captured image.
Android P in addition to notch support is including other notable features like indoor positioning APIs, multi-camera support, restricted access to the mic, the camera, and other hardware, enhanced notifications, design tweaks and changes and supporting for Apple's new codec that squeezes the image size to half; High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF) and other more features.
Android P is now in early testing stage available for developers and Google don't recommend to be installed on user's primary device, the public release date is unclear.
Data source: Google via MacRumors, iDROPNews
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