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Don’t like the vivo Apex pop-up selfie cam? You might have a choice
Aug 14, 2025
One of the most exciting things to come out ofMobile World Congress 2018was thevivo Apex: a flagship smartphone prototype with an underglass fingerprint reader and an innovative pop-up selfie camera to accommodate the notch-less all-screen display.
After making waves at MWC 2018, vivo announced that the vivo Apexwould see a public release, and later announceda June 12 launch datein China.
While many Android enthusiasts are excited by the prospect of a phone that’s almost entirely screen, some detractors called foul on the pop-up selfie cam. The most frequent criticism is that the pop-up mechanism will likely break easily.
Vivomight be listening to these naysayers, as a new rumor just popped up (see what I did there?) that the vivo Apex (or vivo Nex, as it might be called when it hits shelves) might come in two different variants: one with the pop-up selfie cam, and another with a selfie camera hidden in the bottom chin. The leaked info comes viaGizmo China.
This wouldn’t be the first smartphone to flip the selfie camera from the top of the phone to the bottom; theXiaomi Mi Mix, for example, featured the same design element in 2016. However, the leaked image below of the vivo Apex/Nex shows a much smaller chin than other devices with a bottom selfie cam:
Theoretically, since the selfie camera is on the bottom right of the phone, you could simply flip the device 180 degrees to get the same effect as you would if it was at the top left. Here’s the image above upside down to show what I mean:
While the novelty of having a pop-up selfie cam is probably more exciting than a chin camera, it is pretty neat that vivo is trying to make the Apex/Nex the phone with the features that everyone wants. It’s also nice to know that vivo is searching for truly innovative solutions to the notch problem, rather than throwing it in and claiming thatit didn’t steal the idea from the iPhone X.
you may look forward to vivo announcing the Apex/Nex in a few weeks!
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