Ah, "The Notch" — the hot topic of 2018. It's a controversial design decision ever since Apple put one on its $999 iPhone X last year. If you are fuzzy on what it is we call the Notch — it's the cutout at the top of a phone's display, which houses the front-facing camera and sensors. Its presence eats into the screen, spoiling a perfect rectangular shape and irritating a good portion of smartphone fans in the process.

In 2018, Samsung was one of the very few manufacturers to say "no" to the Notch trend. The Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy Note 9 both have a bit of a chin and a bit of a forehead, ...