You probably saw that viral patent of a Vivo smartphone, one that integrates mini drones in its upper section. The patent listing was found by Letsgodigital at the World Intellectual Property Office and the paperwork was filed back in December and then published on July 1st 2021. Now we have
Over the past year big phone makers have been battling to see which one can deliver faster charging. They went from 100W to 120W and 200W pretty fast, but nobody is talking about battery degradation. The usual suspects are Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, also Realme and even Huawei has a tech
Letsgodigital is back on the case, snooping on patent and turning them into renders, as it happens below. This time they’ve uncovered a clamshell foldable phone made by Oppo, the Oppo Reno Flip 5G phone, of course only in the limbo of patents right now. It’s much better looking than
We’ve been writing about modular phones for about 10 years now and they have yet to conquer the mainstream. Modu had the right idea, Project Ara had the right funding and Moto Z seemed to be the one. None of them made a big splash and we’re only left with
For a while there two things seemed to be just around the corner when it came to mobile devices: modularity and smart glasses. Both were big around 2011-2012 and both failed miserably, most people blaming Google for that. Now modularity is back, albeit as a concept, like the one below,
Not all the concept phones we cover remain renders and sci fi wet dreams. Some of them get announced by big companies, like the OnePlus Concept One or the Honor Magic Phone. Vivo actually has a series of concept phones called Vivo APEX. The latest such concept is the Vivo
TCL made the news in a negative way recently, when they decided to drop the BlackBerry brand starting in August. Now they’re off to braver projects, like a slide out screen phone, which just got detailed and rendered by CNET. We’ve seen foldable TCL phones before, even a triple folding
There was a time when a so called “tradition” was in place: each big phone maker launched a concept phone that would never make it on the market. Huawei had Honor Magic, OnePlus recently had the Concept Phone, the Mi Mix Alpha is also an example, plus the Vivo APEX
Essential Phone 2 has already kind of leaked and it’s narrower than the “remote control” Xperia 1 and Xperia 5. It’s an odd duck for sure, so designer Concept Creator proposes an alternative and also explains it in the video below. First of all, the device is rather simple and
You probably forgot about the Essential Phone… Andy Rubin’s passion project is far from done and we’re preparing for the second gen smartphone. The first one was received with mixed feelings, but at least it tried something new, also some modularity. Now let’s see the Essential Phone 2. We start
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