Smartphone makers are experimenting with a unique design to make their devices stand out of the crowd and also to showcase their engineering capabilities. In this on-going trend, Lenovo has reportedly been granted two new patents.
The newly granted patents are for different kinds of sliding mechanism for smartphone design that when slides, reveals the front-facing camera module. The company has provided a few sketches with the patent application filed with the CNIPA (Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration).
In the sketches, the seemingly inferior model has only a dual-camera setup on the back and a single-camera selfie setup that’s revealed only when the phone is in the slid position. The second phone has a similar design in terms of appearance but has a couple more cameras. There are dual selfie cameras and a triple camera array around back.
Interestingly, the round camera bump design seems to be clearly borrowed from Motorola. The sketched device looks a lot like a Moto Z with a full-screen display and a form-factor of a slider phone.
Apart from this, nothing much is known about smartphones in terms of specifications and features. Reports indicate that the devices could be the successor of the Lenovo Z5 Pro and Z5 Pro GT, both of which are slider phones with an in-display fingerprint sensor.
As said, many smartphone makers are coming up with slider smartphones for housing the camera sensors, which allows them to offer a higher screen-to-body ratio. The recently launched premium smartphones with such design include Samsung Galaxy A80 and Asus Zenfone 6. It seems like having a mechanical part in a smartphone is a trend nowadays.
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