Smartphone manufacturers keep working on new designs to make their devices stand out from the crowd and offer something unique to the users. With people wanting bezel-less phones, companies come up with several different designs, including pop-up cameras and under-display cameras to increase the screen-to-body ratio.

The technology of the under-display camera has been in the works for quite some time. ZTE recently launched the Axon 20 5G as the world’s first smartphone to have an in-display camera sensor and other brands are expected to follow the suit next year.

Amid this, companies keep working on new design ideas. In line with this, China-based Xiaomi has filed a patent application for a smartphone design that includes two pop-up cameras aimed to work as both rear and front-facing snapper, reports LetsGoDigital.

The concept images attached to the patent application showcases a flat-screen smartphone with very narrow bezels. There are no camera sensors visible on the front panel or on the backside of the device. Instead, the company has opted for a pop-up mechanism for housing camera sensors.

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Both the camera sensors pop-up at an angle, similar to what we’ve seen on OPPO‘s Shark-Fin camera. Since there are sensors on both sides of the pop-up mechanism, the phone packs four camera lenses in total — two at the front and two on the back.

The LED flash has been placed towards the top of the smartphone on the backside, right below the area from where the camera sensors pop-up. The phone also has stereo speakers and a USB-C port at the bottom.

Xiaomi already has a few smartphones using a pop-up mechanism for the front-facing camera under its Mi as well as the Redmi lineup. It will be interesting to see if the company actually goes ahead and launches a phone with a dual pop-up mechanism for the front as well as the back camera module.

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Xiaomi is expected to release two new phones belonging to the Mi 8 series. One is the Mi 8 Youth and the other is the Mi 8 Screen Fingerprint Edition. A device with model number M1808D2TE has been seen on TENAA and we believe it is the Mi 8 Youth.

The Mi 8 Youth is a less powerful version of the other Mi 8 devices and it shows in the specs. It has a 6.26-inch screen with a 2280 x 1080 resolution and a 19:9 aspect ratio. Xiaomi has decided to go with LCD and not Super AMOLED to keep the price down.

The phone is powered by an octa-core processor clocked at 2.2GHz. This is believed to be the Snapdragon 710 processor which also powers the Mi 8 SE. There are three RAM + storage configurations – 4GB + 32GB, 6GB + 64GB, and 8GB + 128GB.

The Mi 8 Youth has a 24MP front-facing camera and dual cameras on the back. One of the dual cameras is a 12MP sensor but the secondary sensor isn’t stated. Unlike the other Mi 8 devices which have vertically arranged rear cameras, the cameras on the Mi 8 Youth are horizontal. There is also a fingerprint scanner on the back of the phone.

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The phone runs Android 8.1 Oreo, has an infrared sensor, and a MicroSD card slot. It packs a 3,250mAh battery, second to that of the Mi 8 in terms of capacity. It measures 156.4 x 75.8 x 7.5 mm and weighs 169 grams. TENAA has listed a ton of colors for the phone. It will come in Black, Rose gold, White, Blue, Red, Pink, Gray, Silver, Green, Blue-Violet Gradient, and Purple Gold Gradient.

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