Okay, now we know for sure what the 2019 trend will
be - camera sliders. It all started when vivo announced its NEX S concept at
this year's MWC in Barcelona. Later on introduced a finished device. Oppo was
then fast to respond with an even bigger slider on its Find X flagship and now
Honor is looking to introduce the Magic 2 smartphone with the same camera
mechanism.
Well, it didn't take long for another one to pop up
but this time from an entirely different Chinese smartphone maker - Xiaomi. The
company's president just posted a render of the still unannounced Mi Mix 3 - a
long-anticipated flagship. This time around, the OEM is looking to solve the
problem of thin bezels by including a camera slider as well.
The post doesn't say much except that Lin Bin, the
president of Xiaomi, will try to bring the smartphone to the market by the end
of October with a launch date set within the same month. It seems like this
year's smartphones with sliders will pave the way for a more polished slider design
next year. At least it's not like the ugly notch trend, right?
