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innovative (and exciting) smartphones released in 2018.The Nex is the latest flagship phone from Chinese company Vivo, and so far the firm
has only announced availability for its home market
We have high hopes it'll come to other territories around the world, but so far nothing has been confirmed.The Vivo Nex features an
in-display fingerprint scanner, a pop-up selfie camera, an AI-toting dual sensor rear camera, 256GB of storage, a top-end processor and much
working out just how this phone works
on sale in some markets, but the feature is still very much in its infancy.It certainly feels like a novelty on the Vivo Nex, but that's not
Regularly in our first 24 hours we found ourselves weirdly stroking our finger on the rear of the phone to find the scanner or gently
brushing a thumb along the bottom edge of the display to no avail.When you wake the device, a handy fingerprint logo comes up to remind you
place your finger anywhere along the bottom of the phone to unlock it - you need to hit on the finger outline that you can see in the image
surely exciting tech that we hope continues to be useful, efficient and, of course, a secure way to unlock the phone.2
of Android or a light overlay that we're used to
It reminds us of older versions of Emotion UI on the likes of the Huawei P9 and earlier.It takes a lot of inspiration from iOS, and while it
adds features to the operating system that suit a Chinese audience, it does take away a lot of the design choices and nuances we like in the
done so before for markets such as India
There were 15 minutes of the press conference dedicated to the tech at the China launch event, and perhaps more tellingly the company has
put a button on the side of the phone that will automatically launch the Jovi assistant too.It reminds us of the way Bixby is integrated
into modern Samsung devices such as the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8
Many of the features are similar too, with a camera mode that's designed to identify objects and a voice commands that easily change the
that sounds a bit more like a traditional camera taking a shot of you.Rhythm is a bit more like the sound effect your phone will make when
different the screen looks
Stretched over 6.2 inches, it means the pixel density is much lower than its QHD resolution rivals.While it's not as sharp as the likes of
Lenovo plans to release a phone with an even better screen-to-body ratio too, and others are sure to follow
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