Google bans Android phones from having three or more notches

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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.

Fortunately, we’re still in the single-notch era

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...

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