Tang, or Notch. Cast your vote.

It has been pointed out that the 'ears' are an extension of the screen so that amongst other uses, it eliminates using the screen for status info and looks pretty.

Other people though insist that the ears are in fact screen the the notch impinges their viewing as if the sensors are just there to annoy people, and look ugly.

 

To me edge to edge means left edge to right edge, it also includes the bottom edge, and it include the top right edge and the top left edge. But it doesn't matter what any one says because you just have to look at it and there's your answer. It is exactly what it looks like.

For example Samsung can claim that their Galaxy is 'edge to edge' from right side to left side. However I look at it and I can see otherwise, regardless of what they say, because I see reflections impinging on the screen. So if I were in the market for a Galaxy, it wouldn't matter what Samsung said, all that matters is what I see.

 

dictionaries are your friend. A tang is sort of like the opposite of a notch. The idea of a poll is for people to speak for themselves, not for people to speak for others.

 

Good thing Hefner just passed on, Apple may have had a lawsuit pending.

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the screen measurments are just a corner to corner measure, and the tangs can display screen stuff, and they are in the corner. Apple are not giving an area measurement, they aren't saying how many square millimetres the screen contains. That's just convention. Maybe if screens sizes instead of being universally measured on the diagonal they were instead given as a heigh x width, then yes Apple might have a difficulty but they aren't and Apple doesn't.

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OK it's a projection from a part left after a bit is cut out, usually a tang has a purpose. Here is an example of a tang on a carburettor float bowl, as you can see it's the opposite of a notch. Whether you call something a tang or whether you call it a notch depends on which bit is serving the purpose. On a float bowl the tang is serving a special purpose, the notch that it leave behind is incidental.

So seeing as it's the 'ears' on the display that are serving the purpose as they are not really necessary, so they are tangs.

 

Bumping this... Cast Your Votes

 

You mean you don't want to vote, not you can't vote. How is it pointless, a big talking point all over the inter webs is, 'the notch is ugly', so it's pretty pertinent. I don't think it's ugly at all, but people who do claim that 'most people' think it's ugly which is a strange claim to make so far it's 2:1 that the notch is not ugly. Certainly more relevant and interesting than threads like 'are you going to put a case on your phone'

I do wear glasses sometimes, when I do they are prescription and they darken in the sun too. Why do you ask?

 

Surely we can get 100 votes up on Macrumors in order to have a fairer representation.

 

Gotta be bumpity bump time surely?

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It's option 2, it's really a simple 'I like the notch or I don't like the notch', however for the 'likers' it's not called a 'notch' because they see the glass half full.

 

Now that the phone's been out for 4 days this might be a worthwhile bump