LG says it planned the G7 ThinQ notch design before Apple

They all copied essential but badly.

Someone said he is not going to buy a notched phone. And I think I thought of it first before him.

In the effort to keep a front camera or sensors in front while trying to make a truly full screen is what made the look. It was not a design idea but a compromise. While almost all manufactures probably had the design that way before Apple came out with there’s, well they all know what is happening with what’s coming out by what’s on the supply chain. iPhones were being copied well before there released. Going back to the Galaxy s1. Apple does not really copy they do it they want to do and if it happens to be similar to what’s on a different phone they don’t seem to care. Will do it anyways where as other phone manufacturers seem to build their phones as a reaction to either what Apple does or what they think the market will be. Apple just wants to give you the best phone they can and sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t. You know what I can care less if every phone manufacturer has that design up top or whatever you want to call it because in my Pinyan it’s not taking away anything but adding a little bit o you know what I can care less if every phone manufacturer has that design up top or whatever you want to call it because in my Opinion they’re not taking away screen but adding screen where there wasn’t screen before. It’s not anybodies design. The way I look at it you have a only a couple options first you can have a bezel. Second you can have the iPhone X. Thirdly you can have a full screen with no front facing camera or have a some sort a gimmick that pops out. And the last way is eventually you can have it in bedded under the screen and not take anything away which I am assuming that’s what’s gonna be happening at some point

Had the X sold the X. Nothing special. GREAT in-hand feel but I back to Samsung I go. Sold mine on Swappa and picked up a S9

Or they paused it to consider abandoning the notch because it would look like they're copying Apple, but realized it was too late to stop now.

Exactly LG had a patent for a notch design so I believe them.

When iPhone X came was unveiled, I find it's notch cool at first, it was something different, but since it was an Apple product I could not embrace the fact that it wasn't such a bad decision. Now that everyone is going for the notch, I hate it. But It isn't that bad of a thing if you can hide it behind a black background. it gives you extra space for the clock, battery percentage, and a few more icons. The only complain I have now with the notch design is why copy a controversial feature?

I believe it's true: a) development of phones takes most likely over one year, so they must have had the G7 on the drawing board before the iPhone X was released. b) LG are themselves major worldwide display supplier, so they don't just have contacts with the supply chain, they are part of it. They were definitely amongst the first developers of notches on displays and I'm sure they knew whether the notch would become a thing or not well before us, be it because of Apple or other OEMs.