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Lenovo teases a new phone that’s all screen on the front
They’re also teasing “Synthetic Aperture” (we don’t know what it means either)
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This article originally appeared on ABACUS
Lenovo is teasing a new phone that has an edge-to-edge display and an ultra-thin bezel.
The company’s vice president Chang Cheng posted drawings of the Lenovo Z5 on Weibo last week. The device appears to have neither a notch or a chin (big bezel at the bottom).
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Handset makers are racing to make screens bigger on phones, squeezing as much space as possible from the front. Apple killed the home button and Samsung moved the fingerprint sensor to the back of the handset, both in an effort to give the screen more room to grow.
But there’s one thing no hardware maker has been able to remove from the front: The selfie camera. Xiaomi moved it down to the bottom, while Apple cut out a part of the screen to fit it in -- the famous “notch”.
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One of the most unique solutions came from Vivo. Their Apex concept phone also didn’t have a selfie camera on the front of the device -- instead, it physically pops up from the top of the handset when needed.
This new Vivo concept phone has a pop-up selfie camera
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