There are speculations that Huawei is working jointly with ZTE and BOE to deliver a next-gen foldable smartphone with under-display selfie cameras. Under-display selfie cameras for foldable smartphones are not very common. The Mate X3 has a visible punch hole in the main flexible OLED display. A new Huawei prototype has been discovered that feature an under-display selfie camera. The Huawei x ZTE UDC foldable smartphone prototype was displayed by Digital Chat Station via Weibo.
The Huawei Mate X3 has an inward-folding design and the new Huawei prototype will provide significant improvements in that regard. The new prototype adopts the UDC screen technology. The prototype reportedly featured BOE’s latest and advanced flexible display. While the concept is believed to have come from Huawei, the main display was rumored to be from ZTE. The seeming collaboration of Huawei with BOE and ZTE could deliver the best UDC technology for the next-gen Huawei foldable.
The rumored next-gen Huawei foldable smartphone may possibly have the same wide form factor as the yet-to-be-released Google Pixel Fold, in addition to minimal bezels. The new Q8 display for foldables has a resolution of 2480 x 1116 pixels with 1,440 Hz PWM dimming. To put it in perspective, the Huawei Mate X3 had a display resolution of 2496 x 2224 pixels.
Under-display selfie cameras may finally be coming to foldable phones as Huawei partners ZTE & BOE
There are no official statements by any of the companies on the rumored Huawei x ZTE foldable flagship. There are also no indications yet on the expected release date of the model. Indeed, it is unclear whether the prototype will transit to a production model. More optics however are expected from Huawei on the leaked prototype foldable smartphone if the leak was authentic.
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