The slowing smartphone market has been blamed for an incredible explosion within the number of options and designs of latest units, as firms wrestle to distinguish themselves from their opponents.
Into this Cambrian Explosion arrives Oppo with two new design patents printed on the 29th January 2019, for some slightly weird units.
The craziest is a tool with a pop-up, not digital camera, however display.
Oppo imagines the secondary display may very well be used to regulate content material on the bigger display, like video transport controls or controls for taking part in video games.
Possibly considerably much less mindless is a tool which is a horizontal slider, not with a keyboard however with a display, which can however be used for a digital keyboard. Of course, the slider display does supply the power to have a big display in a smaller kind issue, just like a folding system, however considerably much less technically difficult.
Do our readers agree that some-one at Oppo has been microdosing a bit an excessive amount of? Let us know beneath.
