The main idea is that by housing a phone's various sensors and
earpiece speaker into a notch at the top of the display, OEMs are able to further slim down bezels and fit a larger screen on a smaller body.
Not exact matches
The words or sentences would reach a receiver that would then «speak» the words
into a comrade's
earpiece or be played from a
speaker, perhaps at a distant command post.
As for the
speaker that lets you hear calls with your ear to the phone, the company has done away with it and instead uses an exciter to turn the entire display
into an
earpiece.
Touring the body, the device is refreshingly unencumbered by complications — the
earpiece speaker is even integrated
into the polycarbonate shell.
The secondary
speaker is tucked
into the
earpiece, and the overall sound that comes out of the dual
speakers is noticeably louder and clearer than last year.
Having the
speaker built
into the
earpiece is a nice change, since it doesn't get covered by a hand while holding the phone up.
Last but not least, we should also stress the APEX removes the need for a conventional
earpiece speaker by... transforming the entire FullView display
into one big
speaker.
Delve
into Notifications, Settings and enable Pulse Notification Light which shows in the corner of the
earpiece speaker slot.
An earlier teaser for the smartphone suggests that a
speaker built
into the
earpiece at the top will work in conjunction with the bottom
speaker to provide the BoomSound setup.
The
earpieces have an open
speaker configuration — that is, there is no rubber piece that goes right
into the ear canal for a noise seal.
Other than that, the front is all screen, ultrasonic proximity sensor embedded directly
into it, and something called «cantilever piezoelectric ceramic acoustic technology» replacing the conventional
earpiece speaker.
It comes with the dual stereo
speakers where one is placed on the bottom edge, and the other is integrated
into to the
earpiece of the device.