Oppo's designs are getting crazier, new patent shows pop-up display and side-sliding screen

If you think smartphone design is getting stale, well, you’re mostly right. However, every once in a while, there are smartphones that surprise us with something unusual. The Chinese manufacturer Oppo has been one of the few companies that consistently experiment with the design of their devices. Until now, most of the company’s efforts have been in eliminating the display notch by hiding the selfie camera in various ways.
With the Oppo Find X, the whole top part of the phone moved up and down, revealing (and hiding) not only the front-facing camera but the rear one as well. The recently released ...