If you're a fan of the iPhone notch, you're really not going to like this analysis article - and the iPhone 14 really isn't going to spark any joy with you.
We've recently seen sketches of the new iPhone 14 Pro, coming from a leaker on Chinese social media site Weibo. This includes dimensions of the phone so we know - assuming they're accurate - that it'll be taller, thicker but less broad, but only by a few millimeters or less, so nothing to write home about.
Analysis: notch time to die
It's been a really busy few weeks for the iPhone 14, because even though the phone is only expected to launch in September, there's been a bizarre influx of leaks of Computer Assisted Designs (CADs) for the device.
We saw iPhone 14 renders here and iPhone 14 Pro renders here, all showing the same thing: no notch, and dual camera cut-outs instead.
To fans of iPhone notches, this has probably not been a great week - every new story repeats the refrain 'the iPhone 14 won't have a notch!'.
This writer isn't exactly a fan of the notch, but can imagine it's not exactly a fun time for fans of the design feature. Every story on the web is reminding you of the loss of your beloved bar.
But this is the nature of time - nothing lasts forever, and the notch is a design feature that was destined to be dropped when something better came along.
Are punch-holes better? Well, slightly, but they'll also go the way of the dodo once under-display cameras stop being terrible.
We don't know for certain that Apple is dropping the notch - the Apple Event in September could bring us a startlingly similar iPhone to ones we've seen before. But given how much the cut-out has been leaked, and how little we've heard about the notch, it seems all but confirmed.
