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what's up guys lon here from Android authority and the and Rapide developer one preview was recently released a few days ago and one of the biggest features to Android P is its native support for notches and this sort of raised a lot of questions is Google doing this in anticipation of a ton of Android phones being released with notches are they planning on releasing a phone with a knotch themselves and our notch is going to be the future of Android smartphones so we've seen a lot of features become trends in smartphones like dual cameras fingerprint sensors bezel screens and if the knotch is the next big thing to gain popularity it's gonna be one of these strangest smartphone trends ever the essential phone was one of the first mainstream smartphones to feature a knotch but it wasn't until the iPhone 10 featured a notch that it became a big deal but both of these phones did it out of necessity and not for stylistic or aesthetic reasons the essential phone needed a place to have the front-facing camera and then the iPhone 10 obviously needed a place to have all of the necessary sensors for its base ID technology now with everything that Apple tends to do it doesn't take very long for other OEMs to replicate it and back at MWC a couple of weeks ago we saw a ton of iPhone 10 clones most of them were from lesser-known Chinese OEMs but we also have some pretty big announcements from companies like a soos with the zenfone 5 Z which pretty much looked completely identical to an iPhone 10 in every way we've also seen a lot of recent leaks of the LG G 7 neo and in many of the photos and videos the phone appears to have a knotch so it even looks like LG is on board of the knotch train and it seems pretty inescapable at this point then we're gonna be seeing a ton of Android phones that feature a knotch and if it's done out of necessity I think that's perfectly fine but if it's done merely for aesthetic reasons I think that's gonna give Android phones a really bad look especially if it's coming from bigger named OMS I think it would be more beneficial and innovative if more OEMs found different solutions for incorporating all these different sensors in our smartphones without resorting to the knotch and some OEMs already have the apex concept smartphone from vivo that we saw at MWC has the proximity sensor the be a light sensor the fingerprint sensor and even the front-facing camera all very cleverly hidden away without interrupting the display and the notch is sort of like the modern-day moto 360 flat tire look and it's something that you'll learn to live with if you have to but if you had the choice you'd rather not have it at all but let's go back to Android PE and think logically about it for a second even with native knotch support we're not gonna see a non pixel phone running Android P until after the pixel 3 is launched so it's hard to believe that this update is meant for any Android phone with a knotch that's being released anytime soon and even if that was the case it would be a long time before these phones receive this update if they even receive it at all it would be much safer to assume that this update implies that Google plans on incorporating a notch into the pixel 3 and pixel 3 Excel and I certainly wouldn't put it past Google to do something like that because after all they have emulated Apple before in the past but I sort of hope that's not the case because Google is supposed to be the company that propels Android forward and I feel like if they do mimic Apple again this is going to be a big step backwards so that pretty much wraps up this video do you guys think notches are the future of our smartphones and if they are will you be happy with it let us know down in the comment section below we definitely love to hear your thoughts and of course give this video a thumbs up if you did enjoy it subscribe to the channel which is also down below hit that notification bell so you don't miss out on future videos and of course check us out on social media instagram twitter snapchat google+ all that good stuff we link down below and of course check out the website as well and Roberti calm because we are your source for all things Android