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5 things we've learned from 24 hours with the almost bezeless Vivo Nex
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5 things we've learned from 24 hours with the almost bezeless Vivo Nex
You likely wonāt be able to buy the Vivo Nex when it goes on sale later this month, but that doesnāt stop it being one of the most innovative (and exciting) smartphones released in 2018.
The Nex is the latest flagship phone from Chinese company Vivo, and so far the firm has only announced availability for its home market. We have high hopes itāll come to other territories around the world, but so far nothing has been confirmed.
The Vivo Nex features an in-display fingerprint scanner, a pop-up selfie camera, an AI-toting dual sensor rear camera, 256GB of storage, a top-end processor and much more wrapped up inside a premium design.
Weāve been using the device for a little over a day now, so weāre just getting into the groove and working out just how this phone works. Here are the top things weāve learnt so far from over 24 hours with the Vivo Nex.
1. In-display fingerprint scanning works⦠but it takes getting used toĀ
The Vivo Nex isnāt the first phone to come to market with an in-display fingerprint. Two previous Vivo phones have been available in China with the tech, plus thereās the limited edition Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design thatās on sale in some markets, but the feature is still very much in its infancy.
It certainly feels like a novelty on the Vivo Nex, but thatās not a criticism. Regularly in our first 24 hours we found ourselves weirdly stroking our finger on the rear of the phone to find the scanner or gently brushing a thumb along the bottom edge of the display to no avail.
When you wake the device, a handy fingerprint logo comes up to remind you to tap your thumb or finger to unlock⦠but itās going to take a while for muscle memory to kick in.Ā
The fingerprint scanner is speedy (although itās not as fast as the traditional scanners weāre used to) and from what weāve found so far it seems to be accurate.
You canāt place your finger anywhere along the bottom of the phone to unlock it ā you need to hit on the finger outline that you can see in the image above. And you need to be accurate with it too, it wonāt work if half your thumb is hanging off the edge of the image.
Itās not perfect, but itās surely exciting tech that we hope continues to be useful, efficient and, of course, a secure way to unlock the phone.
2. The software is currently very different to what weāve used beforeĀ
The Vivo Nex weāre using at the moment doesnāt use the standard version of Android or a light overlay that weāre used to. Instead it runs Vivoās own software overlay called FunTouch OS (this is version 4.0) and it looks totally different to what Google intended with its software.
Itās developed by Vivo and based on Googleās Android 8.1 update, but there are some features missing from the OS. It reminds us of older versions of Emotion UI on the likes of the Huawei P9 and earlier.
It takes a lot of inspiration from iOS, and while it adds features to the operating system that suit a Chinese audience, it does take away a lot of the design choices and nuances we like in the stock version of Android.Ā
As our device weāre currently using is China-centric, some of the apps are in the wrong language and we donāt have access to Googleās services.
That currently means we donāt have the Google Play Store on the phone, so downloading apps is a little more difficult than weād have hoped for.Ā
Thatās something Vivo will have to change for a worldwide release (if it happens) as the company has done so before for markets such as India. Expect the look and feel of FunTouch OS 4.0 to remain though.
Ā 3. The built in AI is more Bixby than Google AssistantĀ
Vivoās own voice assistant comes pre-built into the phone. Itās called Jovi, and currently only works in Mandarin Chinese so we havenāt been able to test out the feature fully in our first day with the phone.
Itās clear Vivo wants to put a big focus on the tech though. There were 15 minutes of the press conference dedicated to the tech at the China launch event, and perhaps more tellingly the company has put a button on the side of the phone that will automatically launch the Jovi assistant too.
It reminds us of the way Bixby is integrated into modern Samsung devices such as the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8. Many of the features are similar too, with a camera mode thatās designed to identify objects and a voice commands that easily change the settings on your phone.
4. Ā We love the sound effect of the selfie cameraĀ
This is a minor one, but itās something that excited us as soon as we left the launch event. If you didnāt already know, the Vivo Nex includes a pop-up front facing camera that rises from the top of the phone when you boot up selfie mode in the camera app.
Itās a novel idea, but the company has also included a sound effect that we didnāt notice when testing the device at the noisy launch event. In fact, itās a sound effect that you can change.
By heading into the Settings within the camera app and pressing ācamera pop-up soundā youāre greeted with four options. Default is the Sci-Fi sound effect that sounds like a small Star Wars droid trying to communicate with you and then thereās also Machine that sounds a bit more like a traditional camera taking a shot of you.
Rhythm is a bit more like the sound effect your phone will make when you get a text message, plus thereās also an option so you can mute it as well. Even when the camera sound is on mute youāll be able to hear a very quiet noise, but this is just the mechanics of the camera moving up.
Right now weāre loving the sound effects though, especially as the exact noise changes slightly depending on whether the camera is going up or going down. Itās a tiny thing, but itās one of those little features that adds to the fun of an already dramatic way of taking a selfie.Ā
5. All screen phones are just exciting as you hopedĀ
Each time weāve taken the Vivo Nex out of our pocket, weāve immediately been hit by how different the screen looks. There is very little bezel around the screen ā itās not technically bezeless, like some of the marketing materials would have you believe ā but it looks breathtaking in the hand.
The screen isnāt the best on a smartphone right now. Itās an AMOLED, which is a good for punchy color reproduction, but it only has a Full HD+ resolution. Stretched over 6.2 inches, it means the pixel density is much lower than its QHD resolution rivals.
While itās not as sharp as the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus, LG G7 ThinQ or Huawei P20 Pro, itās still striking to see a display that makes up pretty much the entire front of the phone.
Thereās a small chin at the bottom of the front of the device, but the phone has a screen-to-body ratio of over 91% and the fact tech isnāt hidden inside a notch at the top of the display is laudable as well.Ā
Vivo has achieved something very impressive, and this is sure to set the tone for phones that want to have all-screen fronts in the coming 12 months or, perhaps, even longer.
Weāve already heard Lenovo plans to release a phone with an even better screen-to-body ratio too, and others are sure to follow. Even if you canāt get your hands on the Vivo Nex, it shouldnāt be too long until you can try out a phone where itās all screen on the front.
I guess people can't see the back in the video because it's just a panel covered with 2.5D glass attached to a PCB (?). Let's wait until we see the final product before getting too excited.
If any phone needs to be bezel-less, it's the 6-inch phablet so it can be more manageable in average hands. Too bad this one isn't truly bezel-less.
It may be bezeless (more like "bezelite"), but it doesn't look very good. Their rotating camera concept phone looks so much better:
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How much more simple can a phone be?
This is a question that Iām sure plagues any passionate industrial designer.In a sense, the constant goal of any designer is to further simplify on top of the design that was previously thought to be āautumnal simplicityā. I sympathize with a design team that is faced with their own high standards. Apple, for example, is known for simplifying designs thatā¦
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A bezel-less design won't allow you to use a 5.5" phone with one hand, increase your productivity with longer battery life, improve your gaming and movie watching experience with deeper blacks, or protect your phone from the rain. It is the embodiment of style over substance.
It won't disallow any of them either. Slim bezels *can* be useful if implemented properly (in conjuction w palm rejection tech), it would send the ergonomics of modern phones through the roof. As it stands though you're right, they're style over substance, but that's because we haven't pushed far enough.
I recently went to the local store to check out the latest 5.5" with the smallest bezel I could find (an LG). Sure I could grip the phone a tiny bit better, but I was still not able to use the phone one-handed in a natural manner, and I don't think shaving a few mm's off the width will change that, regardless of palm rejection technology. I dunno...maybe I just have small hands ;-). For me at least, there are only three sure ways to improve the ergonomics of one-handed phone usage:
Use a 5" phone or smaller, in which case a bezel-less design is just for looks because I can still use it in one hand even with the bezel.
Features within the OS itself to make it easier to navigate with one hand. Jolla's Sailfish pulley menu system comes to mind. New thumb gestures that some vendors are cooking into their ROMs are also a good start.
Change to a super-wide aspect ratio panel such as 21:9 (e.g., 768 x 1792). Granted this would make the phone look more like a TV remote control, but at least you'll be able to reach the far bottom corner with your thumb (good luck reaching the top corner though).
In any case, one-handed usability is not a big "must have" feature for me, so no big deal -- I'm glad in most cases I can get away with using my phone with two hands, which I'm OK with. The biggest thing that I wish they'd fix ASAP is battery tech, because I'm so tired of worrying whether my phone would make it through the rest of the day after I have my CoC fix in over lunch.
To be fair LG G3 is still a far cry from being bezeless (25% bezel). A truly bezelless 5.5 phone would be sth like 133mm x 68mm in profile which is smaller than Galaxy S3, which is pretty usable one-handed. But ergonomics is not just about one-handed use. It's about pocketability, easier two-handed use, and of course lack of accidental touch (palm rejection tech). Do all those and we'd have a jump in ergonomics.
It may be truly bezelless technically speaking (all glass from side to side), but there's still a black border behind the glass that's so big you can mistaken it for a miniature tablet