When Vivo first unveiled a smartphone with a front-facing camera that pops out from inside the device when you need it and hides when you don’t, the company called it a concept device. But a few months later, the Chinese phone maker is officially launching its first phone with a pop-up camera. The Vivo NEX […]
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MSI PS42 is a 2.6 pound laptop with discrete graphics option
MSI is probably better known for its motherboards and gaming PCs and hardware than for its mainstream laptops. But the company does make a line of non-gaming notebooks, and the company is showing off a new thin-and-light model at Computex this week. The MSI PS42 measures 0.63 inches thick and weighs about 2.6 pounds. It […]
Vivo’s all-screen phone with pop-out camera launching June 12th
Chinese phone maker Vivo unveiled a sleek concept phone in February, promising a a nearly all-screen device with a notchless design and a slim top bezel… because there’s no camera built into the front of the Vivo Apex. If you want to snap a selfie or make a video call, you can use a camera […]
Acer’s new Swift 5 is a 2.2 pound, 15.6 inch laptop
Acer is updating its Swift line of thin and light laptops with a new Swift 5 featuring a 15.6 inch display, slim bezels, and a screen to body ratio of nearly 88 percent. But the most impressive thing about the new Acer Swift 5 is its weight: it’s just 1 kilogram, or about 2.2 pounds. […]
Huawei MateBook X Pro coming to America for $1199 and up
Huawei’s MateBook X Pro is a thin and light laptop with a high-res touchscreen display, slim bezels, and an… unusual camera design. The webcam’s not above the display, where you’ll find it on most notebooks. And it’s not below the screen, as it is on Dell’s XPS 13 lineup. Instead, it’s tucked into the keyboard, […]
Sharp Aquos S3 with iPhone X-style notch coming soon?
The iPhone X may not have been the first smartphone to ship with a screen that covers most of the front of the phone, with the notable exception of a cut-out for a camera in the top. But for better or worse, the notch will probably be forever associated with iPhones… at least unless enough other […]
Archos launches 3 budget phones with 18:9 (2:1) displays
Slim bezels and 18:9 displays: they’re not just for expensive phones anymore. While the first phones with these ultra-wide (or tall, I guess) screens were high-end handsets with high-res displays, speedy processors, and astronomical price tags, a growing number of phone makers have been taking the trend downmarket in the past few months. The latest […]
Leaving home (buttons) behind: Apple may bring Face ID to iPads
The iPhone X may be Apple’s first iOS device without a home button. But it probably won’t be the last. Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on a next-gen iPad that borrows some design elements from the iPhone X, including slim bezels and a Face ID camera system that will replace the fingerprint sensor and […]
Xiaomi unveils the Mi Mix 2 with a 6 inch display, tiny bezels, ceramic body, and Snapdragon 835
2017 may be the year that Samsung, LG, and Apple (probably) jumped on the bezel-less bandwagon. But Xiaomi beat those companies to market when it launched the Mi Mix in 2016. Now Xiaomi is launching a second-gen model with a smaller body, more powerful specs, and an eye-catching design with slim bezels, an aluminum frame, […]
Vivo launches V7+ smartphone with slim bezels, 2:1 display, 24MP front camera
Chinese phone maker Vivo’s latest phone is features a 6 inch display with an 18:9 (2:1) aspect ratio and slim bezels, which seems pretty much par for the course for premium phones in 2017. But the Vivo V7+ is launching this month in India with a list price of 21,990 rupees, which is less than […]