Oppo is showing off an update to its under-screen smartphone camera technology, which it says can take better photos while also maintaining screen consistency. It’s the latest salvo in the ongoing war on screen bezels, which first resulted in smartphones with camera notches and then cameras with punch hole displays. Most recently, we’ve started to […]
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ZTE’s 2nd-gen under-display camera is coming soon (hopefully it’s better than the first)
The first smartphone with an under-display selfie camera went on sale late last year. And while the ZTE Axon 20 5G is a remarkable looking phone that has slim bezels and no hole or notch in the display for the camera, it turns out that it’s not very good at actually taking pictures using the hidden […]
Xiaomi smartphones with invisible under-display cameras coming in 2021
The war for slim bezels has led to the proliferation of smartphones with hole-punch cut-outs in the screen to accommodate front-facing cameras. A few companies have come up with novel solutions that provide an all-screen experience, including pop-up cameras, flip-around cameras, and under-display cameras. But that last solution usually means you’re stuck with a grainy […]
Hole punch cameras killed the pop-up selfie cam
Over the past few years smartphone makers have declared war on bezels. The black borders that surround displays have gotten smaller… and phone makers have found new places for the fingerprint sensors and cameras that used to hang out in those borders. But it looks like one solution is on its way out. Pop-up selfie […]
Motorola One Hyper is a mid-range phone with a pop-up selfie camera
Motorola’s newest mid-rang phone is now available in the US, Europe, and Latin America. The Motorola One Hyper is a $400 phone that’s the latest in the company’s line of Motorola One mid-range smartphones, each of which tend to have one (kind of) distinctive feature — although this time, it’s two distinctive features. The most noticeably […]