Many smartphone manufacturers have launched smartphones with retractable cameras, including Vivo, Oppo, and Xiaomi with their Vivo NEX, Oppo Find X, and Xiaomi Mi MIX 3. Samsung is also said to launch Galaxy A90 with a pop-up camera.
Now, it seems that Huawei is also jumping the bandwagon. While its sub-brand Honor has already launched a phone with a similar mechanism — Honor Magic 2, Huawei is yet to launch a phone with a retractable camera.
Huawei has filed a patent for a smartphone with a sliding mechanism, suggesting that the Chinese company is exploring the possibility of slider-based smartphone design.
In a patent design published earlier this month in the Global Design Database of the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Office) by Huawei Technologies shows a full-screen smartphone with a slider camera.
The phone, with an almost borderless design with rounded corners, houses the speaker-grille in the narrow bezel. The camera is extendable and offers space for a dual selfie camera, with a flash in the middle. On the back, there is room for two cameras and a flash.
There’s no fingerprint sensor on the phone’s back panel, which may indicate that it will be placed under the display. Another possibility is that it is included in the power button.
Since most of the premium smartphones come with three or more camera sensors on the back, we are assuming that this will be a mid-range device. It’s not yet known within which series this Huawei phone will be placed if it actually gets introduced. The company recently filed trademark applications for P Smart X and P Smart Z, and this patent design of a smartphone could be a part of the upcoming P Smart lineup.
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