The father of Android mocked domestic mobile phones: vivo Apex's full-screen design was our patent last year

Vivo, which was originally thought to only know how to make advertisements on TV and hire young celebrities as its spokespersons, has actually made a full-screen mobile phone that many people think is close to perfect. This can be said to be the most unexpected surprise at the just-concluded MWC exhibition.

There is no doubt that the most ingenious design of vivo Apex is to use a hidden pop-up front camera to maximize the screen-to-body ratio on the front of the phone. However, whether this idea was copied has recently caused quite a bit of controversy.

(Official Account:) noticed that recently, Andy Rubin, the founder of the full-screen mobile phone Essential Phone and the father of Android, pointed out in response to netizens' questions that the pop-up camera patent was granted to Essential as early as 2017. He even took out the patent link page provided by Google officially, reminding everyone not to be confused by the so-called innovation of vivo Apex.

It is understood that Essential Phone first submitted a patent on "a method for maximizing the display area of ​​a mobile device" in May 2016. The front camera design is exactly the same as that of vivo Apex. However, it has not yet released any specific products using this patented design.

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