Rev Vivo Nex: The camera pop-up makes this beautiful phone any screen possible

Goodbye screen notch, it's nice to know you. The
Vivo Nex
with his camera selfie pop-up and his experience on the screen, proves that you do not need a monkey
iPhone X's
($ 1000 at Cricket Wireless) to stand out, and that Chinese phone manufacturers can indeed innovate.

Vivo's Nex demonstrates all that a phone of the future can be. It starts with a 6.59-inch AMOLED display without a bezel with an HD resolution of 2136×180 pixels. There is no front speaker grille, which gives it a clean, all-screen look. The fingerprint reader is integrated in the screen, and a powerful
Qualcomm
The Snapdragon 845 processor powers the phone.

The Nex is amazing to watch, and it's the perfect conversation starter. I've had a lot of people marvel at the camera pop-up, although the first question is usually almost always, "Will it break?" The answer is no, it will not be, but later.

The main disadvantages of the phone are its heaviness
iOS
clone of an operating system and the fact that the Nex is currently limited to a few countries. In addition to China, the Nex will soon be available in Russia, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it is unclear when, or even if, it will head west. The Nex costs 3,898 yuan, which converts to $ 585, £ 445 or AU $ 790.

This is not cheap, but next to
Oppo Find X
Vivo Nex demonstrates what is futuristic
phones
may look like, moving the camera and speaker grille to other parts of the phone. If you can get your hands on the Vivo Nex and stand out from the crowd, it's a worthy purchase, but not at all a mainstream device. So make sure the Nex will work with your carrier strips before you buy and add your SIM card.

The avant-garde design of Vivo Nex is also intelligent

The companies that make "all-screen" phones have a problem you put the front camera, the speaker grille and other sensors including you need to operate a phone?

Vivo's solution is to eliminate them completely, giving a face of more than 91%.

The highlight of the phone, the 8-megapixel selfie camera lives inside of the phone body and appears when you take a selfie. The mechanism is robust and it is unlikely that it breaks. I have tested it carefully in the beginning before applying more force, and I am confident that it is anything but fragile. The ejection mechanism is also strong enough, enough to push back my finger that was deliberately blocking it with some force. When you switch from rear binoculars to selfie pop-up before, the switching speed is only slower about half a second compared to the iPhone X.

The footprint sensor Underlying digital is another interesting piece of engineering. Another Vivo phone, the
Vivo X21
($ 568 at Amazon.com) also has this, and honestly, I was not too impressed. It was slower than a real physical scanner, and was sometimes frustrating to use. The Nex has the third-generation Synaptics scanner, which records my impressions almost immediately, a definite improvement.

While the X21 had the unlocking of the face to facilitate the unlocking of fingerprints, the option is not available on the Nex, the selfie camera is hidden. But the fingerprint reader on the screen is fast enough.

To truly consolidate the on-screen experience, Vivo also took away Nex's front speakers. Instead, it uses the screen as a speaker when you take calls with the help of a linear vibrator, which basically transmits the sound to the phone frame that is relayed to through the screen. This technology is similar to
Xiaomi
of
Mi Mix 2
($ 396 at Amazon.com) but plays better on the Vivo Nex. Unlike the Mi Mix 2, the Nex does not broadcast your audio to everyone within the limits of hearing. Regular music and video playback instead uses a background speaker.

The compromise for having a motorized camera is a phone that is heavier than normal: almost 200 grams (7 ounces). He feels a bit awkward, and the friends who checked the phone also commented on the weight.