INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A new smartphone from Chinese company Vivo includes an in-display fingerprint scanner and pop up selfie camera to allow for the highest
screen-to-body ratio we've ever seen on a phone - and you'll actually be able to buy (in some countries).The new Vivo Nex has just been
announced in China, and the smartphone features a variety of high-end specs with a 6.59-inch bezeless AMOLED display on the front.The Nex
has a screen-to-body ratio of 91.24%, which means the bezels around the edge of the screen are particularly slim
The best screen-to-body ratio on a phone before this was the Essential Phone with 84.9%.How has Vivo managed to achieve this There's no
notch or thick bezel along the top of the phone to house the selfie camera and other technology, such as the earpiece, with the company
including three new pieces of tech instead.A pop-up camera What will they think of NexFirst off is the company has included an 8MP
front-facing camera that pops up from the top of the phone's body when you want to take a quick selfie shot.There's no traditional earpiece
Instead the company has a technology called Screen SoundCasting that turns the display itself into the loudspeaker so you can hear the
person speaking on the phone.The third way to make the phone's bezels particularly slim is the in-display fingerprint scanner, which is
Vivo's third attempt at the technology after previous phones like the X20UD and X21.Vivo claims this technology is more accurate and faster
than ever before, and if allows you to securely unlock the phone by placing your finger on the bottom half of the screen.If this all seems
awfully familiar, that's because we saw a concept of the Nex earlier this year at MWC 2018.It's not all screenIn terms of internal spec, the
Vivo Nex features the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset that we've seen perform well in some top-end phones announced this year like
secondary 5MP f/2.4 offering
It also comes with optical image stabilization and an LED flash on the rear.The Nex also packs in 8GB of RAM, 256GB of internal storage (but
no microSD support) and a 4,000mAh battery
The phone is also set to launch in both black and red colors.The biggest bezel is the bottom chin, but even that's smallHow long will it be
topThe concept phone Vivo announced MWC 2018 had a 98% screen-to-body ratio, and the Nex is a big step for forward to achieving that goal on
a phone you can actually buy.Rival company Lenovo has teased a launch event for June 14 that will bring an even higher screen-to-body ratio
One teaser even suggested it'll have a 95% or more ratio but we'll have to wait and see if Vivo can be beaten by this new device.It's worth
noting we don't currently have any word on whether the Vivo Nex will be coming to other countries around the world
We hope it will be launching in other places, but right now it's only confirmed as a device for those in China where the price has yet to be
revealed.TheIndianSubcontinent is currently in China at the launch of the new Vivo phone, so we'll be testing out the phone as soon as
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