The week started off with a teaser from the Lenovo
VP Chang Cheng who posted a corner of a notch-less Lenovo device. Now he is
wrapping the week with more information about the phone - it will be called
Lenovo Z5 and from what it looks like it might have a screen-to-body ratio as
close to 100% as we have seen so far.
Cheng wrote on Weibo that the Z5 would come with
four new technologies that should effectively lead to removing the bezels from
all sides, including space usually taken by the camera, the earpiece or the
fingerprint scanner.
All three of them can already be implemented in a
smartphone though: the camera can come out like a periscope, similar to the
vivo Apex Concept Phone, a piezoelectric ceramic driver for the earpiece is
already part of the panel since the first iteration of Xiaomi Mi Mix, and
under-display fingerprint scanners are a thing since the vivo X20 Plus UD.
June 14 is the date of the official announcement for
the Lenovo Z5 when Cheng is expected to reveal how Lenovo managed to break the
95% StB ratio barrier.
