While we have seen smartphones with unique button placements like in the LG G3, a new Chinese based manufacturer is looking to develop a smartphone with no physical button at all. So, the phone will have a clean design with just a display up front. It will be called the Manta X7 and will run on the company's custom OS, built on top of Android called MO7os. As the device is still under development, no concrete details are available about how it works. But simple operations like powering up the phone and controlling volume could be via gesture controls. For example, it is said that one side of the phone will feature a unique thumb tracking technology which will detect the user's thumb and adjust the phone's dialer. This would make one handed operating very easy, even if the phone is large in size. Moreover, other controls such as turning volume up or down, accessing apps etc could be via some sensors in the bezels or smart gestures in the OS. Hardware details are scarce, but some speculate that it will run on a Mediatek processor. It is also doubtful whether the phone would be released outside of China, hence, we don't expect it to hit Malaysian markets anytime soon.
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