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“Apple iPhone 12 Pro gets smaller notch”

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The notch; a necessary evil in our search for borderless telephone screens. An interim solution too, because why would the self-image camera occupy such a prominent place in the much more important screen? Still, it will stay for a while, especially if you’re an iPhone fan. Apple does want to make it a bit smaller for the upcoming iPhone 12 Pro.

A pop-up camera, a rotating camera, a screen hole, a notch. All nice and nice but of course we want a camera behind the screen. Apple is reportedly working on it but is not ready yet. At least not for the upcoming iPhone 12 Pro. And that’s why the 12 more or less resembles the 11, although Apple knows how to make it smaller by smaller components and some moves. Something is better than nothing.

New notch format iPhone 12 Pro

In this way, the loudspeaker moves upwards in the rim and the other Face ID components have been made a bit smaller. This makes the notch a bit narrower, leaving more screen space. It’s not much but hopefully it’s enough to attract customers. In terms of appearance, the iPhone 12 Pro may follow the new iPad Pro. The edge becomes more angular, and on the back comes a LiDAR scanner for enhanced depth recognition. iOS 14 also goes on the shovel and gets features we saw earlier in iPadOS, especially in the home screen. You’ll be able to add widgets later, too.

Smaller notch: Not Great Not Terrible

Previous years it was mainly the iPad that borrowed ideas from the iPhone, but for 2020 it seems to be the other way around. The iPhone 12 Pro will be a copy of the iPad Pro (2020), both in appearance and control. If a smaller notch indeed becomes the biggest ‘progress’ then that’s not very great, it’s not the end either. It is and will remain an intermediate solution until Apple has come up with a way to get rid of Face ID behind the screen.

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