Last September, Apple unveiled a smartphone that looked like none before it:
With the iPhone X, Apple ditched the three-year-old design that prevailed during the iPhone 6 era in favor of something new — an edge-to-edge design with no home button for Touch ID, and an all-new OLED display that takes up the whole front of the phone.Hollis JohnsonThe new display almost takes up almost the whole front of the phone, but not quite. Apple cut out a little "notch" to house its front-facing camera and other sensors that power Face ID, which replaces Touch ID as the main authentication method in the iPhone X.Hollis Johnson/Business Insider
Not everyone loves the notch. But Apple wanted its tenth-anniversary iPhone to have an edge-to-edge screen and a front-facing camera, and that's the compromise Apple came up with, love it or hate it.Justin Sullivan/Getty
Of course, since Apple released the iPhone X, several Android phone makers have begun adopting the notch into their own designs. Here's the brand-new OnePlus 6, which was just announced last week:OnePlus
Here's the LG G7 ThinQ, which was also announced this month:LG
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