Oppo and vivo found an innovative way to avoid having a notch on their flagships. But is that the most amazing piece of innovation lately or are these sliders just an unnecessary complication of the smartphone design?
Ivan: “A Slider creates more issues than it solves.”
Sliders – as in sliding mechanisms to hide the selfie or main camera, as seen in the vivo NEX S and Oppo Find X – are cool. Of course they are. They’re innovative and they’re out of the box. They’ve allowed Oppo and vivo to avoid using a notch on their flagship phones and as popular opinion dictates, notches are…