was, I did some Ecosia-ing [ https://www.ecosia.org/ ] and found out that it is a way of extending
a mobile phone's screen size while keeping the microphone and/or camera on the front of the
thing.
Whether having 2 "horns" to one's screen is a vast improvement or not is a funny question; from
a personal point of view I think it is pants, as in
"Every time I bend over my pants crawl up the notch in my iPhone."
But, oddly enough, the mobile phone industry and fashion and so on are not going to listen
to my opinion so developers are going to have to live with notches for now at least.
I also went here: https://dribbble.com/shots/4643636-Andr ... tch-Mockup
which prove quite useful, although I mucked around with the original version for my own use:
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and a thought occurred to me . . . "What is all the Hoo-Har about?"
Surely ALL that the Notch really means is that the screen space (think resolution) has
increased by the depth of the notch, but has the notch sticking into that extra screen are.
AND, forbye, what would one use those 2, frankly silly, extra bits of screen space for?
Nothing, surely.
However, one will still have to take into account those extra bits
when worrying about scaling and rotating.
Extracting the screen BAR the notch from that image gives one 317 x 631 (or, probably 320 x 630).
Doing the same thing WITH the notch gives one 317 x 651 (320 x 650).
Now, while I realise that is just "Richmond fooling around with his computer" it does
give some sort of idea about the difference.
