LG's smartphones could soon adopt the waterdrop notch

The Essential Phone's waterdrop notch

The upcoming LG G8 ThinQ is largely expected to retain the wide notch found on last year’s LG G7 ThinQ. But if a recently-published patent is anything to go by, the South Korean brand could soon move towards much smaller alternatives.

The design in question was first filed back in April of last year, just a few weeks before the LG G7 ThinQ was introduced. Because of this, the smartphone described resembles the latter quite closely by including a vertical dual-camera setup on the back and a rear-facing ...