Do you want to compete with Huawei?
Since Xiaomi regards Huawei as an imaginary enemy, it is more powerful than a mobile phone camera.
According to foreign media tigermobiles, the patent information of a set of Xiaomi foldable mobile phones was exposed in the database of the State Intellectual Property Office. The message shows that the phone has five horizontally-aligned cameras that can be used above the screens on both sides and can be used either as a front or as a rear.
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It can be seen from the exposure information that the design of the camera is very different from that of the conventional folding screen mobile phone. The pop-up design does not occupy the space of the body at all, so the screen ratio will be larger. The phone is similar to the previously announced surround screen concept phone Mimi Alpha, but the MIX Alpha is designed with a vertical camera module that retains 108MP pixels on the back. At present, there is no exact information on whether this design patent will be applied to Xiaomi’s product line very quickly.
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With the full-screen battle already started, in order to pursue the screen of the screen, the lifting camera is also blooming everywhere.
In September this year, Huawei officially released its first lift-type front-facing camera model, Huawei’s 10 Plus, and specifically mentioned its accumulation on the lift camera at the press conference, indicating that Huawei was in 2014. A patent for a lift camera was obtained.
However, Huawei is not the first manufacturer to mass-produce the camera. In June last year, vivo officially launched the first vivo NEX with a lift camera design, which realized the “zero-screen full screen” and also made users question its durability and safety. The OPPO Reno2 Z, which was released in October this year, also uses a lift-type front lens. The front screen has a ratio of 91..1%.
Throwing out the “bangs” camera design, making the mobile phone a “true and comprehensive screen” lifting camera, has also exploded various problems.
First, the failure rate is high. The mechanically designed lifting camera is prone to failure and its maintenance cost is relatively high. Secondly, since the camera needs to slide up and down during operation, waterproof and dustproofness will be affected. Some people have suggested that the mechanical structure breaks the fuselage integrity and violates the general direction of the industry’s “integrated” design, which is an excessive pursuit of the screen.
“In the second half of this year, the mobile phone of the lift structure will gradually decrease.” An industry insider revealed to the professional media. Although the industry will continue to release mobile phones with lift-type structures, the number of models will be relatively reduced compared to the previous ones.
Looking at the global mobile phone brand, Motorola One Hyper and the previously exposed Nokia 8.2 renderings will also use a lift camera. However, Apple and Samsung still prefer to use “bang” and “digging holes” design. It was reported that Samsung will launch a new machine with a patented camera in 2020. Major mobile phone manufacturers are also stepping up cooperation with upstream supply chains to develop on-screen camera technology. Previously, OPPO Vice President Shen Yiren said: “The full screen form application screen camera is still very long.”