Vivo's recently released APEX is really cool. In addition to being equipped with a real full screen that is different from others, its pop-up front camera is also very interesting. When it needs to take a selfie, the front camera will slowly rise from the top of the fuselage, and automatically retract when it is not needed.

You may think it is very creative, but Andy Rubin, the father of Android, said on Twitter that Essential, the company he founded, owns this patent, which was submitted in 2016, and called it "Apparatus and method to maximize the display area of a mobile device to minimize the screen border of mobile devices".

It can also be seen from the patent map that the vivo APEX has many similarities with it. At present, APEX is just appearing as a concept machine. If mass production is required in the future, it is likely to need to communicate with Essential first.

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