http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2018/05/04/why-apple-lg-and-others-have-given-in-to-the-notch/

LG this week unveiled the LG G7 ThinQ, and it got attention for all the wrong reasons. The phone boasts a 6.1-inch edge-to-edge screen. But as with many recent smartphones, it drew criticism from tech journalists for having a notch  at the top of a screen. The notch is a dark cutout in the top of the screen that houses the front-facing camera, speaker for phone calls and other important sensors.

The G7 is the latest phone to follow the design “trend,” which embodies the compromise that companies make between aesthetics and function.