Vivo’s Apex 2019 is a seamless 5G phone with a ‘full-display’ fingerprint sensor and 12GB of RAM
Vivo has announced the Apex 2019, the futuristic follow-up to last year’s “concept smartphone” that introduced the pop-up selfie camera later seen on the Nex. To be clear, the Apex 2019 probably isn’t ever going to ship as a real product in exactly this form, but Vivo is taking it to Mobile World Congress next month and we may well see some of its features show up in the company’s product lineup over the next year.
Like last year’s Apex, the 2019 model prioritizes screen-to-body ratio and slim bezels. It’s aggressively minimalist, without any physical buttons or port openings in sight, and features a “Super Unibody” curved glass design. Unsurprisingly there’s no headphone jack, but there isn’t even a USB-C port, either; charging is...