OPPO Under-Screen Camera: hide and shoot

It's just that you know especially outside of Asian a lot of people don't even know what it means even today someone was asking when you go into the US and they're all like he's hard yeah that's true it's obvious that this is a very exciting new form of tech it's a way of mitigating a couple of problems we've had with phones up until now the knotch everything about the knotch we identify one big layering problem that so that was my question like did you particularly hate notches and then you can compare all sorts of pop up so I can see all pop I have literally turned off

Notches on phones where I can turn them off I would rather live with a bezel than with a notch and this is also why I specifically love pop-up selfie phones yes so now what we have is not a little shark fin not a little pop-up I still think the find X pop-up was like it was favorite yeah that was that was awesome in in any case like what I was trying to do is just eliminate all of that altogether so there's a tiny little area at the top it's a little like square around it's almost like a notch that it is though I will say in my camera I was able to figure out where I was and I I

Was do but it's like it entails a lot of maneuvering it's something that you see because we know about it yeah but see you're like looking for it to someone who just saw the phone they're gonna use it and they're gonna even forget that that's where the camera is at sure and you know do the normal user they're not gonna think about it but it's such a tiny thing that makes everything like all the more seamless yeah and I wish there was a little bit more info as to exactly how that was achieved but from the articles that I was reading when it was announced at MWC Shanghai

It's basically there's a tiny area at the top that was made as transparent as possible without losing a layer that allows for the screen to render still yeah so in most cases it's still going to show the screen yeah and then contextually that tiny little part which is probably the best way for me to put it it might be a tiny little secondary display gets deactivated accordingly yeah and I remember if I'm not mistaken that I read an article once before and when asked about like the quality they sort of like sugar it off saying of course if

There's gonna be a screen tiny little layer the quality would not be as would not be at Paris a camera that didn't have that tiny layer yeah does that does that worry you not really because you have to remember we live at the time when it's all okay let me rephrase it's only now that people are starting to prioritize selfie cameras like up until like last year we've had like cameras with crappy front face like phones with crappy front-facing cameras right we tried it out it didn't look that bad so it's like and at the end of the day what this is

Really is a proof of concept right so this doesn't mean that this is the final and I think to your question I think that's why they didn't they haven't without that much patience because it's a proof of concept like opal likes doing this remember the zoom and I'm WC years back and when do we actually feed the zoom right so it's a proof of concept they're saying we can do it and I think that ties into all the things that we've heard opal talk about today they talk about the innovation they talk about their technology they talk about being more than a smartphone maker and well

This is basically telling the world that look we can innovate it's not necessarily something we're putting out right now and even at the keynote they mentioned that they don't necessarily want to be first but this is sort of like a brand a brand that bragging rights yeah and that was literally stole to show it WC shame they did they if the camera software is able to do some algorithmic processing perhaps to do like an automatic D haze or something like that but it might not matter so much that the quality is gonna be a bit

Under because it's literally under a layer a semi-transparent layer so I guess first off the quality isn't that bad anyway at this point because also if you think about it what do we use selfie cameras for these aren't cameras that go on like these aren't photos have gone like albums these are like Instagram story they that's what this camera is not everyone's like me vlogging with it yeah exactly you're like a very rare breed so that's one two again we saw the quality it's not that bad three I don't doubt that software can

Fix this because then again you have like Google yeah with like just who lived on like just which lived on just one camera for like years and still are the best photos but I guess the question now is if they can do it and what they will actually do yeah like and we haven't seen many others I think this is like the only USC that we've seen so far yeah I don't think we have seen it yeah Oh pose a pose really keeping it close to the chest they want anybody knowing what's going on we don't even know why camera we don't even know what cameras are there phone yeah like

The cameras are on it was a weird prototype thing and it was sleek looking yeah it looks like a Reno it without the selfie and without yeah without buttons yeah which is weird I just had that haptic engine but it I think this is an awesome thing like even more than the pop-up and people know how crazy well I'm just happy that because with the with the pop-up camera you eliminate the ability to put clip-on lenses hmm you can't really put any weight but load-bearing things on there so now with even with this the USC I can put my usual clip-on on the front and get that

Wide angle get that soon all of that so I'm actually kind of excited because of that it actually alleviates that problem for me but yeah selfie taking with good selfie taking with full screen display that's that's your dream right yes I just I'm excited for it that's that's all I can say it's like I made the beeline for it as you know who and lo and behold I am excited even more all right well you finished her tee but why don't we try really like the speech yeah well there you go cheers cheers Cheers thank you for that babe