Heres Every Phone (So Far) With An UnderDisplay Camera

Here’s Every Phone (So Far) With An Under-Display Camera

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Hiding the front camera beneath the display is a novel way to offer an all-screen look. Here’s every phone that takes this route to aesthetic nirvana.

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Heres Every Phone (So Far) With An UnderDisplay Camera

An exciting development in the smartphone world that is slowly becoming mainstream is an under-display camera. As the name makes abundantly clear, the selfie camera is hidden under the display without leaving a hole-punch cutout or using a notch. Essentially, the camera is invisible, offering a distraction-free, all-screen experience. Of course, this is not the only way to offer an all-screen look. For example, the OnePlus 7 Pro achieved the same goal back in 2019 by fitting the selfie camera hardware inside a pop-up module.

Pop-up cameras happen to be fragile and a repair nightmare, which means smartphone makers have looked at other solutions to achieve an all-screen design. The answer for most appears to be an in-display cameras. The first attempt by ZTE was brave, but the look was not as seamless and the selfies turned out grainy. Samsung refined things by shrinking the pixel size in the region above the camera to maintain a high pixel density for a more seamless look and improved selfie quality. A few big names, including Oppo and Vivo, are also experimenting with under-display camera tech as well, albeit not in any devices that have been made available to buy yet.

The biggest name to jump on the UDC bandwagon is Samsung with its Galaxy Z Fold 3, and it also happens to be the most expensive name on the list as well. Samsung calls its implementation Under Panel Camera (UPC) and claims that it has achieved a 33-percent higher light transmittance to ensure that selfies don’t turn out to be a washed-out mess. The company developed what it calls an Eco2 OLED technology to ensure that pixel density in the area directly above the display doesn’t take a hit, ensuring that the camera region is not easily noticeable to the eye due to color reproduction disparity. Samsung’s Galaxy Fold 3 is also the only foldable phone out there to offer this ‘invisible front camera’ tech. The selfies, however, leave a lot to be desired in terms of raw quality.

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Other Brands Investing In UDCs

Xiaomi’s Mi MIX 4 is another of the latest names to appear on the UDC list. Taking a cue from Samsung, Xiaomi has given the tech its own name — Camera Under Panel (CUP). To offer the best experience, Xiaomi says it redesigned the circuitry to shrink the pixels and increase the brightness output while maintaining a high-pixel density in the area above the front camera. Samsung used a rather modest 4-megapixel camera on the Galaxy Z Fold 3, but the Xiaomi Mi MIX 4 comes equipped with a 20-megapixel front shooter positioned beneath its 120Hz OLED display. The rest of the specs are also quite impressive for its $770 asking price, including a 6.67-inch curved AMOLED display, support for 120W fast charging, a Snapdragon 888+ SoC, and a triple camera array that employs a 108-megapixel main, a 13-megapixel wide-angle, and a periscope-style telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom.

Coming to the most affordable modern phone with an under-display camera, the ZTE Axon 30 packs a respectable 16-megapixel selfie camera and costs around $500. From what real-life videos and hands-on images suggest, the company has done an extremely good job at achieving a seamless all-screen design that hides the front camera well. Unless users look reel close, they won’t notice any weird outline or blurry area on the screen during day-to-day usage. The pixel density above the selfie camera area stands at a respectable 400PPI, and the company has even used a dedicated UDC chip to keep things fine and functioning. However, the quality of selfies is just about acceptable, thanks in no part to the aggressive AI tuning that washes out skin tone.

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ZTE Axon 20 — the first commercial smartphone to ship with UDC technology — was actually more concerned about bragging rights than offering the best experience possible. However, no technology refines without its fair share of failures. On the ZTE Axon 20, a rectangular screen area above the selfie camera with a slightly off-color profile was easily noticeable. The company used high transparency material in the screen to allow light to pass through, but the selfies didn’t turn out to be as good despite a fairly beefy 32-megapixel camera sitting below the screen. For an asking price of around $400, the rest of the specs were not too shabby though, with the phone offering a 90Hz OLED display, Qualcomm’s fairly capable Snapdragon 765G SoC, and a quad-camera setup on the back highlighted by a 64-megapixel main.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/under-display-camera-phones-released-samsung-xiaomi-more/

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