Over the past few years smartphone makers have declared war on bezels. The black borders that surround displays have gotten smaller… and phone makers have found new places for the fingerprint sensors and cameras that used to hang out in those borders. But it looks like one solution is on its way out. Pop-up selfie […]
pop-up camera
Motorola One Hyper is a mid-range phone with a pop-up selfie camera
Motorola’s newest mid-rang phone is now available in the US, Europe, and Latin America. The Motorola One Hyper is a $400 phone that’s the latest in the company’s line of Motorola One mid-range smartphones, each of which tend to have one (kind of) distinctive feature — although this time, it’s two distinctive features. The most noticeably […]
Honor 9X and 9X Pro smartphones punch above their price tags
The Honor 9X and Honor 9X Pro smartphones will be available in China next week for about $200 and up and $320 and up, respectively. There’s nothing too shocking about a Chinese phone maker offering low-cost models. But there’s nothing about these phones that screams cheap. Both feature 6.6 inch, 2340 x 1080 pixel displays […]
Lilbits 365: You’re holding it wrong
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 […]
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 […]
Vivo V15Pro proves pop-up cameras aren’t just for flagship phones
Vivo’s newest smartphone is a mid-range model with some premium features including three rear cameras, an in-display fingerprint sensor, and an AMOLED display with super-slim bezels on all sides… made possible by packing the front-facing camera behind the display. It only pops up when you need it. That was a feature that was previously limited […]
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 […]
Vivo NEX teardown shows how the pop-up camera, in-display fingerprint sensor work
The Vivo NEX is one of the most unusual smartphones to ship in years, thanks to its front-facing camera that hides behind the screen when it’s not in use, its in-display fingerprint sensor, and its unusual vibrating earpiece that’s also hidden behind the display. In an effort to make a phone with a high screen-to-body […]
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 […]