Vivo brings “Apex” – a concept phone

Vivo is again in the news with its concept phone “Apex” which has been launched in the Mobile World Congress 2018. It has many ahead-of-its-time technologies like the “Half-Screen In-Display Fingerprint Scanning”, “Screen SoundCasting Technology” that can transform the screen into a loudspeaker, and OLED giving way to a new design that moves a step further in an almost bezel-less direction.

The “Half-Screen In-Display Fingerprint Scanning” makes use of almost half of the phone screen as a fingerprint scanner. The wider scanner makes it easier to unlock the phone and could the pave way for new security standards such as dual-fingerprint scanning for additional security.

Apex uses Vivo's Screen SoundCasting Technology. With the help of this technology, the entire display transforms into a speaker – it sends vibrations through the display that, in turn, produces a sound. Vivo claims that this technology conserves power, reduces sound leakage, and optimises low to high pitch sound for a better and more balanced audio experience.

It has a 6-inch edge-to-edge display where the top and side bezels are just 1.8mm, while the bottom bezel is just 4.3mm. As it has a thin bezels so mounting a selfie camera module is a problem so Vivo unravelled it by adding a pop-up camera module that springs out from the top in 0.8 seconds.