The Smartphone Notch Is (Almost) Dead – Here's The Camera That Will Help Kill It

Опубликовано 21 декабря 2020, 8:00

For the past decade, smartphone makers have tried to serve two opposing masters. They want to squeeze as much screen as possible into a phone chassis, while at the same time leaving enough room for the front-facing camera (a feature that’s become all the more important in the Zoom-centric reality of 2020).

Until now, most companies have solved this tug-of-war by carving out space for the camera in the display – first in the form of a notch, and more recently the hole-punch (with some interesting alternatives like pop-up cameras peppered in between). But notches are distracting at best and ugly at worst; pop-up cameras add weight and make repairs harder; and hole punch designs are incompatible with wide-angle cameras.

So the next question pretty much asks itself: why not just build the camera … right into the display? It’s a solution Xiaomi, Oppo and ZTE have all been working on, but only the latter has a product shipping with the technology on store shelves today – and in this video, we’re taking a close look at just how it works! Join Michael Fisher for MrMobile’s Hands-On with the ZTE Axon 20 5G: the first phone with an under-display selfie camera that you can actually buy!


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MrMobile’s ZTE Axon 20 5G Hands-On was produced following four days with a ZTE Axon 20 5G review sample on loan from ZTE. MrMobile does not produce videos sponsored by the subjects of those reviews; ZTE was not given any content approval rights or an early preview of this episode.


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ZTE Axon 20 5G [ZTE]:
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[LINKS]

Here’s how ZTE Axon 20 5G’s under-display camera works [GSMArena]:
gsmarena.com/heres_how_zte_axo...

Xiaomi’s “third-generation” under-display camera looks nearly invisible [Ars Technica]:
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/0...

ZTE explains ZTE Axon 20 5G’s under-display camera technology while Xiaomi shows off their 3rd generation version [MSPowerUser]:
mspoweruser.com/zte-explains-a...

Visionox Announces First Commercial Under-Display Camera Solution for Mass Production [true-tech.net]:
true-tech.net/visionox/visiono...

Here’s how you can get iOS 14-style camera, mic access indicators on Android [MobileSyrup]:
mobilesyrup.com/2020/08/23/act...

Visionox launches the world's first OLED to support an under-the-display camera [OLED-info]:
oled-info.com/visionox-launche...


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