Notches. How many can a phone have? How many should a phone have? Is it good to be leading the pack in terms of selling the most phones with notches? And what about other questionable design choices like inserting a mock circuit board into the back of your phone to make it look pretty? The news is brimming with annoying, but pertinent questions this week.

In addition to getting some answers on those, we'll also be dishing theses on what just launched in Chicago. Motorola, Verizon and Qualcomm are backing a last-generation smartphone with a thin bridge to golden 5G speeds. Will this make sense? Will it get customers riled up? What's it all mean?

Plenty to talk about here, so strap yourselves in. It's the Pocketnow Weekly!

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Joshua Vergara

Jaime Rivera

Brandon Miniman (XDA-Developers)

Jules Wang

• Google Notches: How would a three-notch phone work and why is it a bad idea?
• Huawei Notches: Is it good to be the best around?
• Mate 20 Pro: How's it a step up from the P20 Pro?
• RED Hydrogen One: How's it doing at this point?
• Mi 8 Explorer Edition: Is transparent design nonsense?
• Sprint: Uhhh, should your marketing encouraging indecent exposure?

Jules talked with a whole bunch of the tech media corps about their first impressions and lasting questions on the latest phone to work with Moto Mods, including one that can bring 5G to... a Snapdragon 835 phone?

Turing is at it again.

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