Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The True All-Screen Smartphone is Here…”.
My goodness, ladies and gentlemen, got ta, be one of the most anticipated videos that I could possibly make in front of me today. The vivo apex there’s like everything that happened before this and then what will come after ambition boiled down into something you can hold smartphone design is dead. We’Ve talked a lot about differentiation in the space, especially in the Android world, that one’s pretty good that one’s pretty good, like which one every single manufacturer looked at this thing and realized immediately. How do we get there? They started working the next day.
This screen to body ratio thing for people like you, that’s the challenge, that’s I guess for a smartphone maker, the reason to be in this business now, but from a manufacturing standpoint. It’S a super, difficult problem to approach and I hit this button. You get to see it for yourself what this future looks like: it’s not completely: bezel asst, there’s a tiny little bit of a chin over there, 1.8 millimeters on the top, as well as the sides and 4.3 millimeters on a little tiny chin. Here, there’s no goatee! When the people from vivo brought it over there like Nenana, the goal is zero bezel. First of all, in order to achieve this, there’s a whole different manufacturing process necessary, which is part of the reason why you can’t buy this phone right now.
What it would cost to put this thing together is beyond what normal people will be willing to pay for. A phone at least right now the goal is to make the bezel identical the whole way around. If you show this thing to me, when I was oh, I don’t know 15 years old, I’d be like that man is living in the future, so this particular design introduces all kinds of problems: where’s, the front-facing camera. Where are the proximity sensors? How do you unlock the device but believe it or not, they’re here in the function? Surprisingly? Well, so, first off, let’s talk about this front-facing camera.
It doesn’t exist on the bezel at all. It’S up here on the top and it’s recessed, it’s kind of nice. To look at a display and not stare at a camera, so I just, I just think the hidden camera thing has some positive attributes for people who might be a little bit sensitive to having a lens facing them all the time all right.
Privacy concerns whatever it’s a full-on motor that will push this camera up. I’M going to show you how it works, lift off baby and hey everyone can say hi. Now there we go hey, hey Kirk, say: what’s up BAM, special, it’s unprecedented, the beard hair test.
I understand some of the apprehension about this particular decision. It’S moving parts. It could possibly fail the level of concern that you have it almost directly maps to how important selfies or videoconferencing is to you personally, if you’re, that kind of person is using the front-facing camera. I’M gon na go with you.
You have a valid concern. There would be some serious engineering necessary to make that motorized. Front-Facing camera lasts for five thousand ten thousand a hundred thousand actuations some other interesting things about the design. Here.
Power switch is actually it’s over here. It’S where your finger lands, it’s not where your thumb is. I do like this round button. Actually, it’s very distinctive.
You know right away when you’re on it, you probably notice down here on the bottom bar. We have this fingerprint indicator. This is a demo.
You can increase the security level by requiring two thumb prints instead of one to unlock the device. I’Ll show you that in a moment, so if I bring up the test, you’re gon na see what the potential lock screen would look like, and in this case it’s asking me to authenticate to fingerprints at the same time now. This is a possibility because of the size of the sensor area. Now, when these began to emerge, the size of that area was much smaller. The technology adjusts you watch this, like that’s the magic right there, I’m gon na delete fingerprint okay, no more fingerprint. I got a register, I’m gon na do a single fingerprint registration. This is the way I think most people will use this, so you press hard in this location over here and it grabs a little bit and then again and then again so now I back out and I go to the authentication test again according to vivo the Goal for the fingerprint scanner is to eventually be the entire screen.
Oh my goodness you’re, just not even thinking about it bam bam. Ban. Here we go single fingerprint boom done right boots up boom done. Alright, I have to sit when I saw this emerged on the web.
I was very skeptical and now having tried it myself, I had to say I think it exceeds my expectations, even though it’s a little bit slow works surprisingly well on a product, that’s just a concept. Now there are some security disadvantages to an optical fingerprint sensor. You are correct, Apple is, but it made a huge deal of this face ID thing, multiple points, it’s a big topic of conversation right now and it’s true optical scanners might not be the absolute most secure method of authentication. That said, you can always put the old-school.
Pin code in what we’re seeing here is sort of an initial stage, I expect to see improvement. Let’S get back to the display real quick, so why is it so interesting to have a bezel list display as the screens grow if the device grows along with it? You end up with these really large objects in your pocket. I know that bothers Ryan to no end, so the shrinking bezel is an antidote because everybody wants a big screen. The goal is around 98 % screen to body ratio.
So when you hold this thing, it’s basically all screen how impressive this screen to body ratio is how much video you get in such a small form-factor. Now another thing that kind of surprised me about this device: it maintains a headphone jack alongside the USB type-c connector. We have a traditional 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and I was like if this is the phone of the future. Is the headphone jack still a thing? I’M not so certain? I kind of like it because it gives a real nod to the tech community and the fact that we still value it. Why? I think it makes sense? Why not it’s not doing anything to the form factor, it’s not making the phone bigger or harder to hold. There’S a really no downside, they do have an OLED panel in here which, as far as I’m concerned, is the best you can do right now.
It’S a flexible OLED panel because it actually has to be wrapped so that they can get these ultimate slim bezels and beyond that the microchips have to be mounted directly to the flexible circuit in order to fit that’s where the complexity comes in. How do you manufacture that at scale, but what’s particularly compelling about this concept, is the fact that it works so well, this isn’t Samsung doing this. This is an Apple doing this. This is vivo doing this. The package functions surprisingly close to something that’s finished. I came here knowing that I was going to look at something impressive, but I have to say, as a package deal, this thing near has exceeded even that I believe even more now in my original tweet, in which I said, smartphone design is dead for everybody else. In the game, it’s time to scramble reconfigure, throw the design team out the door and figure out how to make a screen that you hold and that you see in the absence of anything else, .