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the vivo NEX s is that sweet-looking bezel-less Android smartphone with the motorized pop-up front-facing camera and in screen fingerprint scanner probably the most futuristic smartphone we've tested so far this year even though it looks epic from the outside I'm honestly more excited to take this one apart and review it from the inside but like always we got to test it first well it's all in one piece let's get started right off the bat this thing looks incredible full screen design with no not just looks good the colorful edge to edge display is impressive all by itself but we aren't really here to talk about the screen there's so much other weird tech inside of this phone to check out starting with that camera just pops out of the top like a daisy in springtime it activates by poking out like an accessory on r2d2 each time I turn on the front facing camera and then retracts as soon as I switch back to the rear camera or exit the app the sound you hear isn't the actual sound the hardware is making it's an added effect there's actually three sounds I'm going to leave mine muted but if you're looking to impress your friends or show off the mechanical extremity of your phone the extra sound is a nice effect the extended camera niblet does feel very solid there is no wiggle to the block and when I press down hard on that camera it'll dip in for just a second and come back up or retract all the way if I press in too hard it's still very firm though and feels like it can handle its own the only way to know for sure will be to see how solid those tracks are from the inside and see how the lifting mechanism is made but for now it seems like it can handle normal abuse even when I try to hold the camera out while it's pulling itself inside the first time the motor is strong enough to yank the camera from my grip but the second time the gears spin for a second and then succeed in pulling it back it's surprisingly strong thumbs up for that we'll come back to the front camera in a second but now let's see what else the phone has to offer it's definitely nice of evo to include a plastic screen protector on both sides of the phone any protection is good protection now we can start with the scratch test there is no mention of gorilla glass on this nexus but since we've made it past the level three pick we know the screen is not plastic we start seeing scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7 meaning we're looking at tempered glass sapphire would be a level 8 unless of course it's Apple sapphire that's still level 6 you might have noticed that there is no earpiece on this phone it doesn't pop out with a robotic camera on top either vevo says it uses vibrations instead of a speaker it's definitely a weird thing that take some getting used to but it works no matter where you put your ear on the frame of the phone you can hear sound emanating from the device kind of like those bone conduction speakers for example this is what a normal UPS sounds like this is coming out of an iPhone 8 it's pretty standard across all smart phones with a little speaker inside of the earpiece you can't discern one smartphone from together just by the earpiece inside of the phone unless of course there is no here P speaker inside of the phone this is what it sounds like from inside the vivo next s it's done through vibrations instead of a speaker and pretty much sounds the same no matter where you're listening to from the phone since the vibrations encompass the whole frame it sounds a lot like a speakerphone but contained in a much smaller area another successfully hidden component is the fingerprint scanner hidden underneath the display I tested this previously with the vivo x20 and even with scratches on the glass the vivo NEX s still functions hiding the scanner under the screen is pretty impressive technologically and physically I made a super in-depth video on what that particular component looks like with the vivo x20 it's pretty magical with a close-up look at this next display you can't even see where the scanner is hidden so they're doing a pretty good job besides the phone are made from metal including the volume button and power button at the top of the phone we have our headphone jack which is incredible vivo has a bezel is notch less phone and still includes that headphone jack while Apple's over there claiming there's no room and dongles are the way to the future last time I checked Apple's sold 23 different dongles so you know what direction Apple's taking their innovation taking a closer look at the front facing 8 megapixel camera the metal housing is solid with no loose movements in any direction but camera lens is made from glass which is important because aluminum is lower on the hardness scale than glasses which means no matter how many times the lens extrudes out of the phone it won't ever get scratched up by the metal right next to it even if it ends up rubbing a bit a scratched up camera lens would be annoying the back of the camera has more metal and a little auto lifting logo on the back I'm still excited to see it from the inside but I'll be patient this phone is not water-resistant by the way the deboned X has a textured assistant button on the this guy's name is Jovi I don't know what his competency level is compared to Bixby Siri or Google but he is there permanently the bottom of the phone has our standard USB C charging port and the dual SIM card tray fun fact if you ever stick your little tool in the wrong hole like this little microphone hole here right off to the side of the tray it probably won't cause any damage since the microphones are placed off at an angle inside the phone and the tool only goes straight in the psychedelic back panel is pretty intense instead of evo just picking one color we get all the colors it is glass which makes me think that a clear phone might be a real possibility I'll have to give that a try let me know in the comments if you want to see that one one thing I would change is that this camera setup is doing the whole depth sensor blurred background thing I still prefer an extra telephoto or wide-angle camera lens over a blurred background feature a blurred background can basically be accomplished with just one lens anyway the dual color LED flash is also under the glass on this one and now for the burn test this Walt wall 6.6 inch AMOLED display lasted quite a while my burn test is basically a mandatory yet semi pointless stepping stone to get to the next event kind of like what algebra is to graduation the next lasted an impressive 16 seconds under the heat from my lighter which coincidentally is about how long I lasted in math class hit that subscribe button if you haven't yet the structural bin test is next we'll see if the motorized rails inside the frame compromise the structural integrity of the phone there is a little more Bend than I'm comfortable seeing but still no cracked glass or catastrophic failure no matter what side the pressure is applied from so I am very pleased to report that this technologically advanced metal and glass sandwich passes my durability test even the protruding bits phones passing my test is a very good thing it means that manufacturers are putting thought into the construction and the longevity of our devices which is good for us as consumers and our wallets but also the planet phones are pretty hard to recycle so the longer they last the better now we just need vivo to bring their stuff here to the United States only China India Russia Malaysia Hong Kong and Taiwan get the cool phones at the moment no US or UK unfortunately I'll keep the description updated if that changes and coming out me on Twitter and Instagram thanks dumb for watching and I'll see you around