The recently released Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e sells for $400 and up and features a 10.5 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 processor, and at least 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, a fingerprint sensor, and quad speakers… all of which make it a pretty attractive option for folks […]
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Oppo Reno 5X is today’s other phone with a weird camera
The same day that Samsung unveiled the first smartphone with a slide-up, reversible camera system, Chinese phone maker Oppo revealed a different answer to the question of what to do with the front camera on an all-screen smartphone. As expected, the Oppo Reno is a smartphone with flagship specs, a high screen-to-body ratio, and a […]
Oppo Reno smartphone may have an unusual pop-up camera (leaks)
Some Chinese phone makers maker offering smartphones with pop-up cameras for nearly a year. By hiding the front-facing camera in a panel that only rises up when you need it, phone makers can use this design to offer devices with slim bezels and no noticeable camera notches in the display. Some models have single or […]
Elephone PX smartphone has a dual-camera pop-up selfie shooter
Smartphone makers have been coming up with creative solutions to the question of where you hide the camera on a bezel-free phone. Apple (and a lot of other companies) stuck it in a notch in the screen. Vivo created a phone with a pop-up camera. And Oppo, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Lenovo opted for a slide-down screen […]
Oppo Find X gets the teardown treatment (slide-out cameras and all)
Thanks to the folks at MyFixGuide, we already have a good idea of what a phone with one pop-out camera looks like when you take it apart and peek at the spring-loaded mechanism that ejects and retracts the camera. But what about a phone with a slide-out mechanism that houses both the front and rear cameras? […]
OPPO Find X with slide-out cameras launches in China for $755 and up
The OPPO Find X is one of the most unusual smartphones expected to launch this year. It has a slim top bezel, and at first glance it appears to have no front or rear camera. But that’s because both cameras are hidden away inside the phone when you’re not using them. A portion of the phone […]
Oppo Find X is a nearly bezel-free phone with pop-out front and rear cameras
Some phone makers are trying to slim the top bezels of their phones by including camera cut-outs (notches). Chines phone maker Vivo took a different approach and launched the Vivo Nex with a pop-out selfie camera that hides inside the phone when it’s not in use. And then there’s the Oppo Find X. Unlike most […]
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 […]
Vivo isn’t only phone maker thinking about pop-up cameras
2018 is shaping up to be the year of the smartphone notch, as phone makers follow the lead of Essential and Apple and increase screen space by eliminating the bezels on the left and right sides of a phone’s front-facing camera. Chinese phone maker Vivo showed a different solution at Mobile World Congress last month: […]