Vivo’s Apex 2020 concept has ground breaking cameras with an ultra curved screen
When we see concept cars we always have a though that they might never so on market, car makers do actually have to build and present them or els, who’s going to understand the difference between a true concept and an absent minded idea? Sad Vivo, which had planned to unveil its latest Apex concept phone at Mobile World, but due to the event’s cancellation now has to settle for telling everyone about it in a press release.
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We will seeing the Apex 2020 in a future event. Currently all we can say what Vivo is telling all of us that it was expecting to show off and take the company at its word that the phone does actually exist at some location in Shenzhen because if it’s real, it does sound pretty groundbreaking in a few ways.
All new Apex 2020’s most visible feature is a 6.45-inch “fullview edgeless” display with 120-degree curved edges that go far beyond what Vivo installed on last year’s Nex 3 flagship. we can see that Waterfall display looked dramatic in person with its 88-degree curves, but the Apex 2020’s screen wraps even further around the edges. Like pervious year’s Apex, we wont see any ports or openings and uses virtual buttons in the 2020 model, which didn’t work too well in conceptual form but were much improved on with the commercial Nex 3.
Just we have other Apex and Nex phones, the 2020 has no notch, which for the first time Vivo is achieving by integrating the 16-megapixel selfie camera right into the display. Vivo told our insider that it managed to increase the light transmittance of that portion of the screen by six times, while relying on algorithmic optimisations to improve image quality. We all will love to see in person before passing judgement on Oppo showed off similar tech last year, but it didn’t look great and is still yet to ship on a consumer device.
Vivo is never known for its camera hardware innovation, but the Apex 2020 sees the company pursuing some major firsts. One of the key things on this list is what Vivo calls “continuous optical zoom,” which basically sounds like it means “actual optical zoom.” even tho we still have big zoom phones on the market right now, like the Galaxy S20 Ultra, rely on fixed prime lenses and software to process the shots between those focal lengths; if we look it in a simpler way then we can say it is digital zoom with a couple more optical steps along the way.
All new Apex 2020’s telephoto lens, however, has actual moving lens elements that take it from 5x to 7.5x magnification. Vivo told our team that the 16-megapixel module is just 6.2mm thick due to its periscope design, which allows it to fit inside the 8.8mm thick phone.
Vivo is also professing to have achieved a huge leap in image stabilisation by way of a “gimbal-like structure” on the 48-megapixel primary camera. Vivo claims a 200 % increase in performance over traditional OIS systems, that will give smoother video and much longer shutter speeds for nighttime photography. Vivo says the design is inspired by chameleons’ eyeballs rotate to track subjects.
No on really knows what this actually means in practice it sure would have been nice to try these camera features out in person. Most of the folding zoom optics and gimbal style stabilisation are not things that most people would have considered possible on a smartphone, so they certainly register as notable claims.
All new Apex 2020 have 60W wireless charging, which the company curiously touts as being able to charge a 2,000mAh battery in 20 minutes. Now that is really fast for wireless and competes with the fastest wired solutions, but that would also be a tiny battery for a modern phone. Vivo might take idea from Oppo and use a dual cell design, which allows for faster charging without overheating, but the company hasn’t listed the Apex 2020’s actual battery capacity. We all should take a note that Vivo is using any form of wireless charging in the first place as far as I know, Apex will be the first Vivo phone to offer it including the port_less Apex 2019 {which used pogo pins}.
Not that the regular specs remotely matter for a phone that won’t ever go on sale, but Vivo says the Apex 2020 is a 5G device with a Snapdragon 865 processor, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. It will have 1080p display, the phone weighs 169g, and the OS is Android 10. It “comes” in black and white.
Our team has to dig in a lot and find write about a phone that will never ship without seeing physical proof of its existence, but Vivo is delftinaly planning of bringing concept features to life in actual products. Apex was the first phone we ever saw with the now common popup selfie camera, for example, while the 2019 foreshadowed the Nex 3’s virtual buttons and curved glass. But the biggest question is, now that we know where Vivo sees the future of phone design going, how soon will it arrive for real?
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