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.