Fuck yeah, under-screen cameras are nearly here — thanks, Xiaomi!
Get in the fucking sea, notch
Under-screen cameras: coming to a phone near you
Yes, under-screen cameras are coming.Soon. Specifically, next year if Xiaomi is to be trusted.
How do we know this well? Well, the company stated ina blog postthat its third generation under-screen camera is ready for consumer use. It’s set to appear on devices in 2021 and I, for one, am hyped.
Xiaomi put together this rather neat diagram about its under-screen camera journey:
So how did Xiaomi achieve this? Well, it says they developed a pixel arrangement that allows light to pass through sub-pixel gaps around them. This allows “each single pixel to retain a complete RGB subpixel layout without sacrificing pixel density.”
In other words, technical wizardry has allowed the pixel density, brightness, and color accuracy in front of the under-display camera to be the same as the rest of the phone. Oh, and it expects this technology to match “the imaging performance of conventional front cameras.”
I don’t think I need to tell you just how impressive this will be if it works as advertised. Of course, that’s a bigif.But I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
Xiaomi is far from the first company to promise under-screen cameras —OPPO,Samsung, andVivohave done the same — but it appears to be the first to confirm the mass release of a device with one. And you know what?Fuck yeah.
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Callum Booth is a freelance journalist with over a decade of experience. Previously, he was the Managing Editor of TNW, where his reporting(show all)Callum Booth is a freelance journalist with over a decade of experience. Previously, he was the Managing Editor of TNW, where his reporting was cited widely, including in VICE, the FT, and the BBC.
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