Vivo NEX with pop-up selfie cam arrives in Malaysia for RM2,799 1

Vivo NEX with pop-up selfie cam arrives in Malaysia for RM2,799

Vivo Malaysia took the wraps off their latest camphone the Vivo NEX which incorporates quite a few interesting innovations, notably the inclusion of a pop-up selfie cam and an under-glass fingerprint reader on top of increasingly common niceties like a massive screen-to-body ratio and dual rear cameras.

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In terms of hardware, the vivo NEX comes with a front-facing 6.59-inch Full HD+ Super AMOLED display, a top-of-the-line Snapdragon 845 processor running Android Oreo 8.1 overlaid with their FunTouch OS 4 user interface, 8GB RAM and 128GB of storage.

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The front-facing 8-MP f/2.0 selfie snapper pops up on demand a second and has been rated to work over 50,000 times without failure. The rear comes with a vertically oriented dual camera which pirs up a 12-MP f/1.8 camera with a secondary 5-MP f/2.4 snapper that also integrates 4-axis optical image stabilisation (OIS).

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Rather than a separate fingerprint reader, the Vivo NEX has one emplaced in the lower quadrant of the touchscreen beneath the touchscreen which lends it a seamless aesthetic.
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Keeping things running is a 4,000mAh battery at the base that is juiced via a USB Type-C port. A particularly interesting feature with the Vivo NEX, on top of the under-glass fingerprint reader and pop-up camera is that the phone ditches a traditional earpiece and instead opts for what they call as Screen SoundCasting Technology that turns the screen into a speaker. It sounds rather quaint on paper, but audio quality at first blush on the showroom floor was up to snuff.

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At launch it was announced to arrive in retail stores by July 28 nationwide at a price of RM2,799 in the only colour you’ll ever need, which in this case is black. For more details check out www.vivo.com/my

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