Vivo Nex S - Hidden Camera Durability Test! I
The Vivo Nex S is that sweet looking, bezel-less Android
smartphone with the motorized pop up front facing camera, and in-screen
fingerprint scanner. Probably the most futuristic smartphone we've tested so
far this year. Even though it looks epic from the outside, I'm honestly more
excited to take this oneapart and review
it from the inside. But, like always, we got to test it first while all in one piece.
Let’s get started. [Intro]Right
off the bat this thing looks incredible. Full screen design with no notch just
looks good. The colorful edge to edge display is impressive all by itself, but
we aren't really here to talk about the screen.
There is so much other weird
tech inside of this phone to check out, starting with that
camera. It just pops out of the top like a daisy in springtime. It activates by
poking out like an accessory on R2-D2 each time I turn on the front facing
camera. And then it retracts as soon as I switch back to the rear camera or
exit the apathy sound you hear isn't the actual sound the hardware is making. an added affect. There are actually 3 sounds.
I’m going to leave mine muted, but if you're looking to impress your friends or
show off the mechanical extremity of your phone, the extra sound is a nice effect.
The extended camera nibbled does feel very solid.
There is no wiggle to the block.
And when I press down hard on that camera, it will dip in for just a second and
then come back up, or retract all the way if I press in too hard. Still very firm though, and feels like it can handle
own.
The only way to know for sure will be to see how solid those tracks are
from the inside, and see how the lifting mechanism is made. But for now, it
seems like it can handle normal abuse. Even when I try to hold the camera out while
pulling itself inside, the first time the motor is strong enough to yank the
camera from my grip. But the second time, the gears spin for a second and then
succeed in pulling it back. Surprisingly
strong. Thumbs up for that. We’ll come back to the front camera in a second,
but now let's see what else the phone has to offer.
Definitely nice of Vivo to include a plastic screen protector on both sides of
the phone. Any protection is good protection. Now we can start with the scratch
test. There is no mention of Gorilla
Glass on this Nex S, but since we've made it past the level3
pick, we know the screen is not plastic.
We start seeing scratches at a level
6, with deeper grooves at a level 7, meaning us ‘relooking at tempered glass.
Sapphire would be a level 8 unless, of course, Apple’s sapphire, that's still a
level6.You
might have noticed that there is no earpiece on this phone. It doesn't pop out
with a robotic camera on top either. The Vivo says it uses vibrations instead
of a speaker. Definitely a weird thing
that takes some getting used to, but it works. No matter where you put your ear
on the frame of the phone, you can hear sound emanating from the device...kind
of like those bone conduction speakers. For example, this is what a normal
earpiece sounds like. This is coming out of an iPhone 8.
Pretty standard across all smartphones with a little speaker inside the earpiece.
You can't discern one smartphone from the other just by the earpiece inside of
the phone. Unless, of course, there is no earpiece speaker inside of the phone.
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