{"id":5983,"date":"2018-03-01T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/?p=5983"},"modified":"2018-03-01T13:20:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T13:20:36","slug":"vivo-apex-future-bezel-less-phones-notch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/vivo-apex-future-bezel-less-phones-notch\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivo APEX the future of \u2018bezel-less\u2019 phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/bensin\/2018\/02\/26\/the-vivo-apexs-bezels-makes-the-iphone-xs-bezels-look-fat\/#2c4c9b5f56f4\"><strong><em>Vivo APEX the future of \u2018bezel-less\u2019 phones<\/em><\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGlobal smartphone brand Vivo keeps pushing its limits following the reveal of the APEX\u2122 FullView\u2122 concept smartphone at the 2018 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.<br \/>\nWith this new model, Vivo is determined to get ahead of the competition by reducing the bezels to 1.8mm on the top and at the sides and 4.3mm at the bottom with a screen size of 5.99 inches. These specs make the APEX the thinnest bezel-less phone with the highest screen-to-body ratio in the industry. In fact, the screen-to-body ratio may exceed 98% if the lower bezel is also reduced to 1.8mm for a genuine all-screen display experience.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vivo-APEX-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"vivo-apex-1\" width=\"460\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>A look at the revolutionary Vivo APEX concept smartphone that sets a new benchmark in the industry. <\/em><br \/>\nIt also eliminates the idea of a notch, as introduced by Apple in iPhone X. To recall, Apple\u2019s iPhone X has a screen size of only 5.8 inches and a screen-to-body ratio of a mere 82.9%. Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S8, meanwhile, has a screen size of also 5.8 inches and a screen-to-body ratio of 83.6% despite its \u201cInfinity Display\u201d. Take note, both flagship phones did not even reach 90% screen-to-body ratio.<br \/>\nWhile Apple, Samsung, and other brands keep the selfie camera as well as the ambient light and proximity sensors at the top of their smartphones, an innovative smartphone company like Vivo does not settle on that.<br \/>\nIt pushes itself further with game-changing innovations such as hiding the 8-megapixel Elevating Front<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5986\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vivo-APEX-2-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"vivo-apex-2\" width=\"460\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Even with an almost 100% screen-to-body ratio, Vivo APEX does not compromise the need for taking selfies with the innovative Elevating Front Camera.<\/em><br \/>\nThe concept smartphone also offers more features that make the most out of the bezel-less display.<br \/>\nVivo APEX comes with the groundbreaking optical-based Half-Screen In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology, a first in the world. With this, users can touch any part of the bottom half of the screen to scan their fingerprints and unlock the phone<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Vivo-APEX-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"vivo-apex-3\" width=\"460\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Vivo takes its In-Display Scanning Technology further by embedding the fingerprint sensor in the entire lower half of the APEX\u2019s screen.<\/em><br \/>\nThese hard-to-miss and revolutionary breakthroughs in smartphone technology made consumer tech writer Ben Sin call the APEX in his article on the Forbes as the \u201ctruest\u201d all-screen display made, breaking Samsung\u2019s or Apple\u2019s promises. He added the iPhone X looked \u201ca bit dated\u201d when placed next to Vivo\u2019s APEX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivo APEX the future of \u2018bezel-less\u2019 phones Global smartphone brand Vivo keeps pushing its limits following the reveal of the APEX\u2122 FullView\u2122 concept smartphone at the 2018 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. With this new model, Vivo is determined to get ahead of the competition by reducing the bezels to 1.8mm on the top&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techbeatcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5991,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5983\/revisions\/5991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}