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Lew Later

The Hidden Smartphone Cameras Have Arrived

Lew Later

Quickscope Media

Tech News, News, Technology

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Xiaomi and Oppo have shown off their next generation device prototypes featuring hidden under-display front facing cameras. Gone are notches and motorized selfie cameras replaced by a seamless invisible camera under the screen. This implementation allows for a true all-display design without the complexity of moving parts or an ugly notch. The solid state, notch-less smartphone future moves one step closer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oppo and Shami show off their under display selfie cameras.

0:06.6

This has been the most requested story for me, like probably since this show started possibly my Twitter was filled up with this

0:15.8

everybody was sending me this this is how perfect this implementation is this is I mean everyone seems to agree this is like this is what it should have been from day one for whatever reason

0:28.9

It's been a hard thing to engineer of course I'm talking about this camera being hidden under the

0:36.5

display component of your smartphone. No notch, no pop-up, no motor, no nothing,

0:42.4

just all screen and selfie camera. Now, granted, our exposure here is very limited.

0:50.6

We have this one tweet from Shami. We have a tweet as well, not a tweet.

0:53.0

I think it originally showed up on Weibo, but anyway, a social media post from Apo also at the exact same moment because you know how that works in a

1:05.5

smartphone game it's like who can showcase it first so they've got their very

1:09.8

own under display camera they showed it off working but we have these like limited

1:15.8

clips and we don't know to what degree they've been manipulated I'm not

1:19.9

suggesting they're not real I'm just saying where they produced it in a perfect

1:24.8

circumstance who really knows but anyhow I think it's happening for real finally

1:30.4

it's the dream scenario in which you don't need to notice the existence of the front-facing

1:38.1

camera when you're not using it, and it doesn't have to rely on any kind of moving parts.

1:44.0

It can sit under the display and then only function or operate

1:48.0

without ruining any piece of the display.

1:51.0

So if you look at Oppo's implementation here, the screen portion shifts down a little bit and it reveals a black area, a black region, and it

1:58.2

reveals a black area, a black region, and then it draws a kind of LED circle around the location

2:07.1

of the front facing camera.

2:09.2

So I guess it just turns off the display in that section temporarily.

2:12.4

I mean, this is perfect.

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