No Buttons, No Ports, No Selfie Camera

The idea behind the Vivo Apex 2019 is to have a smartphone with no openings at all. As such, the Apex 2019 is basically one large slab of glass that ends up letting go of pretty much everything you’d expect a traditional smartphone to have. This includes the 3.5mm headphone jack, charging port, speaker grills, SIM/microSD card trays, and even the volume/power buttons. Furthermore, in an attempt to keep the design of the phone as pristine as possible, Viva has also excluded the selfie camera (say goodbye to face unlock). Perhaps the company wanted to retain the appeal of the Vivo NEX’s full-screen display and was unable to acquire the punch-hole display tech in time. The end product you get is something Vivo likes to call a “Curved-Surface Waterdrop Glass”. Not all the specifications of the Vivo Apex 2019 have been disclosed yet. We can see that the phone features dual-camera setup at its rear, but it is uncertain what their exact resolutions are. However, it was announced that the phone will come powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset that will be backed by 12GB of RAM. Storage options will be comprised of 256GB and 512GB. Vivo also includes its Jovi AI Assistant on this phone, which is likely for its Chinese consumers.