
Vivo Designs Detachable, Double-Sided Pop-Up Smartphone Camera
Vivo has designed a detachable pop-up camera system that consists of three total cameras and two flashes and runs on its own built-in battery.
Vivo has designed a detachable pop-up camera system that consists of three total cameras and two flashes and runs on its own built-in battery.
Chinese electronics manufacturer Vivo has won a Red Dot Award for its prototype design of a smartphone with a pop-up and removable camera unit. Called the IFEA, the company designed the smartphone in an attempt to glean benefits from separating the camera from the mobile phone.
If you've been following news about the Sochi Olympics today, you probably stumbled across one of the many reports that journalists would be banned from using non-professional gear and, in fact, stripped of accreditation on the spot if they broke the rules and pulled out their smartphones to take pictures. Thankfully, however, those reports seem to be false.