Realme shamelessly clones Apple’s Dynamic Island with newly launched C55
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#69JXZ)
Realme's pill-shaped Mini Capsule." | Image: Realme Less than six months after it debuted on the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple's Dynamic Island has made it to an Android phone as a native feature. The Realme C55, which just launched in Indonesia (via GSMArena), includes a feature the company is calling the Mini Capsule," a pill-shaped black bar that expands out of the phone's selfie camera.
An animation on Realme's website shows the Mini Capsule extending out of the left and right of the phone's selfie camera hole-punch notch. Its capabilities include displaying the phone's charges status, data usage, and your step count.
Image: Realme An animation of the C55's Mini Capsule.In spite of how shameless this all is, I'm broadly in favor of good new phone features being...