Xiaomi and Oppo presented the other days the first prototypes of phones that have the cameras included under the screens, something that until now was only rumored, but impossible to present in a product that actually works. Xiaomi and Oppo presented prototypes because for now they cannot launch a finished product, and this is because it is extremely difficult to successfully integrate the camera under the screen in a product that can be produced, or sold, in large quantities.
Although many people would like to see these new models of phones with a camera included under the screen launched as soon as possible, unfortunately it is unlikely that they will reach phones on the market earlier than 2020. Until then, the perforations from the screens will become smaller and smaller, until they will be completely replaced by hidden cameras under the screens of our phones, something that seemed impossible just a year ago.
WHEN will the first Camera Phones UNDER the Screen be launched?
In order to be able to integrate cameras under the phone screens, it is necessary that part of them become transparent, and this is where a good part of the problem that the manufacturers have at the moment is. In the image above you have an example of how Xiaomi thought of the screens that will have cameras hidden under them, the piece of screen in the camera area becoming transparent, but the total technological process is very difficult to achieve.
Under-display camera technology will take a long time to mature.
In the second half of this year, the rigid Super AMOLED will be on the stage of history, with a size of 3.x mm, and will continue to shrink this number until 1mm in the next 1-2 years.- Ice universe (@UniverseIce) June 4, 2019
Considering the existing difficulties in the production process, the first phones with a camera included under the screen should be seen as true innovations from all points of view. It is not known whether Samsung, Xiaomi, or Oppo will launch the first phones of this kind, but it is quite clear that the Asian manufacturers are very determined to bring such mobile phone models to the market in 2020 at the earliest.
