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posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @07:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the common-sense-notchctl dept.

Google bans Android phones from having three or more notches

Google is building official notch support into Android P, but it's laying down some ground rules first: two notches is the limit. In a blog post for developers yesterday, Android UI product manager Megan Potoski wrote that Google is working with device partners "to mandate a few requirements" for app compatibility purposes. Among those are limits on notches.

The mandate says that Android P phones can't have "more than two cutouts on a device." Only one notch is allowed per side, and notches are only allowed on the top and bottom edges — not the left and right.

At this point, we haven't even seen phones with two notches, so the ban on tri- or quad-notch phones and left- and right-side notches is all theoretical. But the switch over to notched phones felt like it happened overnight (well, in the span of a few months), so putting some restrictions in place before things devolve should be helpful for making sure that apps continue to run properly on these strange new screens.

But I want a notch on my notch.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @09:57PM (#715928)

    With 17 notches (one for each gender)?

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