Like I said, the early 12" had no notch. My early 20 had the early style. Evidently it was a mid year change, because your late '20 and all newer, have a notch, or a CD player. It really doesn't matter whether it has the charging pad or not. The phone holding slots are basically the same, they both have the same two phone slots. Either they have the charging pad behind one of them, or they don't. Bottom line, if someone wants to add the charger, dut doesn't want the slot, the early 12" did not have a slot, so they could use a face plate from one of those.