Huawei’s new P20 flagship has a notch. That’s okay — loads of phones have launched with notches this year. What Huawei has done different is introduce a feature that lets you turn the notch “off.” Very simply, this setting changes the status bar to black, which effectively camouflages the cut-out containing the phone’s front-facing camera and speaker.
It’s not completely seamless, but as the pictures below show (tweeted by Stefan Constantine) it’s pretty damn good. At a glance, it just looks like the phone has a thicker top bezel, although if you squint you can see where the notch ends and the screen begins.
You can turn the notch "off" in Huawei's new phone. pic.twitter.com/IDbJgKyS6r
— Stefan Constantine (@WhatTheBit) March 27, 2018
Huawei has done well here, as handling notches has become a bit of a burden for Android OEMs and developers. The Essential Phone was the first handset with a notch, but most phonemakers have since copied Apple’s take, which goes for a slightly broader cutout.
Google is also having to deal with this sudden change to so many phones’ user interfaces, and in the latest version of Android it included “display cutout support.” However, this feature is mainly for developers, who can use it to test how their apps will interact with notches, making sure crucial bits of information don’t get hidden by accident.
But perhaps introducing a feature like Huawei’s will be next for Android. I certainly know a few Apple users who would like to turn off the notch in their iPhone X.
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