ZTE announces the world's first phone with a behind-the-screen camera:
ZTE has officially announced the world's first commercial phone with a behind-the-screen camera: the ZTE Axon 20 5G. Shrinking phone bezels have made locating the front camera a major design point of phones for the past few years. We've seen big camera notches, small camera notches, round camera cutouts, and pop-up cameras. Rather than any of those compromises, the under-display camera lets you just put the camera under the display, and by peering through the pixels, you can still take a picture. It's the holy grail of front-camera design.
As we've seen in explainers from Xiaomi, these under-display cameras work by thinning out the pixels above the display, either by reducing the number of pixels or by making the pixels smaller, which allows more light to reach the camera. In the area above the camera, manufacturers will have to strike a balance between a denser display with lower-quality camera results or better camera output in exchange for an uglier above-the-camera display.
Also at CNX Software.
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday September 04 2020, @01:40PM
Yeah, a few buttons and a speaker grill give a device a bit of character. A plain, wafer-thin, rounded cuboid that looks like little more than a disembodied screen is dull as fuck, and these trends mean all smartphones look the same. Then there's the appalling ergonomics.
I fully agree with the other point about this design making it much more inconvenient for users to tape over their camera as well.
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