Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The first under-display selfie camera is HERE!”.
All right story time so about exactly a year ago i was in shenzhen with oppo and they showed me the first under display selfie camera. Their tech was pretty convincing. Basically, the screen had this little square area. That would light up when the screen was on and then those pixels would turn off when you had the camera open and it would basically allow light to get through to get into that camera. I mean at certain angles: you could see where the camera was, but overall the tech’s pretty cool.
So oppo originally told me they were going to be using that technology in an upcoming smartphone camera, but they still haven’t yet and uh. We live in a capitalist society, so if you don’t make something first, someone else will and as it stands, that someone is zte. This is the axon 25g and overall, it’s a fairly standard, fair smartphone you’re, getting a snapdragon, 765 g 30 watt charging a pretty big display, a versatile camera system. I mean this is basically an upper mid-range smartphone. But if you look at the screen near the top there’s something pretty special there. Axon 25g is the first commercially available under display smartphone camera and the technology is really similar to the one that oppo showed me last year.
It looks really really similar and i’m pretty sure it’s basically the same tech effectively. How this works is that little area that hides the camera is lower resolution than the rest of the display, and this means the pixels are smaller. There’S gaps between the pixels and these gaps allow light through also because it’s an oled, you can turn off individual pixels and if you turn off all of those pixels, they become semi-translucent. So light goes through the little gaps in between the pixels and also technically goes through the pixels to get to the camera sensor. Underneath, of course, you got ta, add other stuff like a polarizer to cut reflections and refractions and make sure that the image actually getting to that camera is as clean as possible and zte is also using proprietary, algorithms and stuff to make sure that that is as Clean as they can get it okay, so you probably want to know what images look like coming through the display and i’d say. Overall, they look okay for a first generation product.
Basically, it kind of looks like there’s vaseline on the lens or like an image that you’d see from like a 60s movie, where it shows a female character and there’s glow all over them. To kind of give this like ethereal, look it’s pretty permanent on this display and you can’t remove it. It basically kind of looks like you’re using a beauty filter on any other smartphone. If you’re someone who uses beauty filters on all of your images, then this might not be a problem for you, but if you really need a sharp image or you want, your video calls to be as sharp as possible or something like that. You might want to wait for generation two when you’re, actually using the phone or watching content the grid isn’t really that noticeable. I mean obviously you’re gon na be able to see it if you tilt the phone at certain angles and it catches the light right.
But overall i definitely prefer it to like a notch or cut out there. Basically, if you have any color illuminating the grid area but white, it hides it pretty. Well, if you’re using white, you can definitely see it a little bit easier, but any regular, color or black kind of background, actually hides it pretty effectively from most angles. Also, i got ta note that on camera, this grid does look a lot worse than it does in real life and that’s because of the moire effect that you get when you record things that have repeating patterns and really fine detail. So just know it doesn’t look as bad as it does on this camera. Overall, i’m really excited that this technology is finally becoming available in commercial devices because it actually solves quite a few different problems like over the last couple years. We’Ve obviously been trying to hide that selfie camera with pop-up cameras or different, weird implementations, but there’s some interesting things that could be very useful if you put the selfie camera under the display. One of the main things that i think about all the time is eye contact and video calls.
Basically, since video calls were incepted, if you want to actually have a call with a person, you have to decide between looking at the selfie camera and making eye contact with them on their side or looking at their face and look like you’re looking away from them. It’S not really that useful. Now different companies have come out with software that make it look like your gaze is staring at them when you’re looking at their face, but that’s a little weird and it would be a little bit easier if we could just do that in camera. Otherwise, you know it’s gon na reduce the amount of moving parts that you have in a foam which is always useful, because that means less things breaking. But overall i’m really excited for this technology to advance anyways guys zt’s, axon 25g is going to be available starting today for 449. So that’s about it until next time.
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