Earlier this month, Brian Shen, Vice President of China-based smartphone maker Oppo, took to Weibo to share a video clip of an early engineering model the company’s first under-display camera technology.
Oppo has today announced that it will be participating in the MWC 2019 Shanghai which will be held from 26th June to 29th June. The poster released by the company hints that it will be showcasing its under-display camera technology at the conference.
In a short video clip previously shared by the company on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo, a phone with an under-display camera was shown. It has a front-facing camera that doesn’t need a notch, teardrop, hole punch, pop-up, or even sliding mechanism and keeps the edge-to-edge display uninterrupted.
At that time, Brian Shen had said that the under-screen camera technology is still in its early days. He added, “At this stage, it’s difficult for under-display cameras to match the same results as normal cameras, there’s bound to be some loss in optical quality. But, no new technology jumps to perfection right away.”
Currently, there no more information available about this futuristic technology but hopefully that could change when the company takes the stage at MWC19 Shanghai. We expect Oppo to shed more light on this technology when it showcases the under-display camera tech at the conference.
Notably, Oppo isn’t the only smartphone manufacturer working on a technology that puts the front-facing camera inside the phone’s display. Other manufacturers like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Samsung are also working on the same.
In fact, just hours after Oppo shared a video of its technology, another Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi also showcased its own under-display camera technology. The video shows a modified Mi 9 smartphone with a working selfie camera under the display. This technology could be a key feature of the next-gen Mi MIX smartphone.
