Is the Notch REALLY That Bad? #Helpful Post

ey guys this is Austin all the way back

in 2017 essential introduced the knotch

with it they're able to take the screen

and stretch it all the way to the edges

essentially getting rid of the bezel as

we know it well unless you count the

chin but well then we had the iPhone 10

10 s and 10 are all of which bring the

knotch to a much much bigger size now

from there pretty much all of last year

was full of phones that are absolutely

loaded with notches you had big notches

small notches teardrop notches I mean

they're everywhere but now we have the

Savior the hole punch display with the

Galaxy S 10 here instead of a notch they

have the front facing camera it's

surrounded by the rest of the display

however is this really the future we

want so even though it looks simple on

the surface there's a lot going on to

make a hole-punch display at work first

of all you need to be able to cut out

the actual display itself as opposed to

a notch but importantly it does limit a

little bit about what you can fit there

for example with the galaxy s 10 the S

10 plus you can get one or two front

facing cameras but besides that things

like the fingerprint sensor need to be

pushed to below the display and some of

the other things like the ambi and the

light sensors are actually underneath

the screen itself now sure there are

definitely other approaches the Oppo

find X definitely comes to mind as it

brings an entirely mechanical operation

to the front facing camera so you don't

have any kind of knotch but when you

need the camera it pops up however as

cool as this is I'm not totally

convinced the mechanical approaches are

really going to make any big difference

the humble knotch actually still feels

to me like a better solution for most

phones now the actual looks at the whole

punch display are definitely up to you

now personally I do appreciate how small

it is you don't have any extra space

being used but that being said a notch

at least is symmetrical well usually on

top the thing with the hole punch though

is that it's always off to the side

corner which means they can look a

little bit odd specifically in video

where you have essentially a bunch of

dead pixels which can be kind of off to

the side it's certainly not the end of

the world and I do think a lot of people

will like the look of the hole punch as

far as I'm concerned you are giving up a

lot by leaving the notch for example

take a look at the brand new LG g8 it

has a pretty hefty notch and for good

reason that are packing a lot of stuff

into that space in addition to the

front-facing camera they also have a

pair of depth sensors a transmitter as

well as a receiver this

comes up quite a few possibilities now

first of all you have a much more secure

face ID and I'll get into that in a

second but you also have some new

technology which is hand ID like the

most LG thing ever

hand ID no not face ID not fingerprint

ID you still have a fingerprint sensor

instead what this does is it uses that

time-of-flight sensor to actually scan

your blood vessels in your hand all you

do is put your hand over the phone it

will scan it for the first time and

supposedly this is an incredibly secure

thing because I mean you can spoof some

things but you can't spoof like entire

handful of blood vessels I just find it

hilarious that we've come this far that

we've gone from face ID that touch ID

now we've got vein ID now I mean to be

fair you do still have the fingerprint

sensor so if you don't want to use this

you definitely don't have to ant

supports face ID but the thing is it's

cool to have the stuff with the notch

right if you don't have the notch you

can't fit all these extra sensors behind

the display or at least you can't yet

then there is facial recognition now

Apple claims this is the reason why the

notch has to be so big and when you look

at what all they've crammed inside face

ID well it kind of makes sense you've

got the front facing camera the light

and proximity sensors there's a flood

camera as well as a 3d dot projector to

get the actual 3d representation of your

face there's also an IR camera to take a

look at all this stuff specifically at

light or well in low-light I guess you

can use it anytime on top of that

there's also a front firing speakers

which doubles as your earpiece that is a

lot of things for the little tiny notch

that's fine

now the g8 doesn't have all of this

stuff but you still do have the room for

those extra sensors something you can't

do without a knotch now one of the cool

parts about this is that both of these

systems enable much much more secure

facial unlock now some phones including

the essential and including a lot of

phones such as the Galaxy S 10 do have

an RGB base sensor but it's actually a

lot easier to fool this is essentially

just a front-facing camera when you have

all these extra sensors and all these

projectors it does mean that face ID

goes from being that something that's

kind of cool but not really all that

useful

you care about security at least just

something that you can use absolutely

every day without worrying the notch

makes it a lot easier to integrate these

features and that's something that you

really can't do with the hole punch

display at least not yet now we are

seeing movement toward getting more and

more features underneath the screen

because the galaxy has 10 already has

some sensors including the fingerprint

sensor underneath I think it's only a

matter of time before you don't even

need that hole punch and the camera can

be directly underneath

however for right now when you go for

the hole punch display it means that you

typically are giving up some of this

stuff like the secure face unlock now

there are advantages to the hole punch

display namely the fact that it doesn't

look quite so ugly as a knotch however

there are definitely trade-offs

associated with going with that so I'm

sure we will see a ton more of these

hole punches throughout the year but as

far as I'm concerned the humble notch

doesn't necessarily have an expiration

date just yet