Apple's latest iPhones and their inaugural Camera Controls have not exactly received universal praise from users - nevertheless, the new technology has also been taken up in the Oppo Find X8 series, also launched in 2024 as its OEM's flagships for that year.
The world can look forward to more Android smartphones with capacitive touch-responsive keys in 2025, according to typically knowledgeable leaker Digital Chat Station - in fact, it can hold out for new handsets with more than 1 of these new buttons.
They may or may not act as next-gen shoulder buttons, which may imply that the device in question is meant to be a gaming smartphone like Asus' new ROG Phone 9 Pro.
The same device is also destined for a flat display with particularly slim bezels - however, as further clues such as a hidden punch-hole camera remain absent from this leak, it is impossible to identify the mystery device as something like a RedMagic 10 Pro successor at this point.
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