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Remember screen bezels on your smartphone? Yuck! How disgustingly ugly. Sure, they may have been a handy place to rest fingers when watching a film or playing a game landscape, and for popping cameras and sensors out the way of the display, but aesthetically, just terrible. Thank goodness we’re now in an age where we get nothing but screen stretched across the front of our phones. You’d have to be really stuck in the past if chunky bezels were still part of your core design language (*cough* iPhone SE 2022 *cough*).
Oppo's new retractable camera is a blast from the point-and-shoot past
Get ready for more in-and-out GIFs
When it comes to the miniaturization of photography technology, Oppo really likes pushing the envelope. It's set to do so again next week when it details a smartphone with a retractable camera.
Super-practical pop-out selfie camera drones are absolutely, definitely coming to a phone near you
A recent VIVO patent shows off the wildest phone design we've seen in a while
The long war of the notch has come to an end. No longer need we argue about teardrops versus hole punches, or look for half-hearted solutions like pop-up cameras or cams hidden beneath the screen. Nope, I have seen the future, and the future flies around your face like a little plastic mosquito. Say hello to Vivo's latest international patent published at WIPO (and spotted by a Danish site), the "Electronic Device." It's a phone with a little camera drone inside. I could go into more detail, but the design illustrations seem to be pretty self-explanatory: the tiny, ultra-thin drone pops out of the top of the phone on its little tray, takes off with diminutive rotors, flies around to take photos or videos, and then docks again for charging and safekeeping.
Famed leaker OnLeaks has just pushed out a pile of renders (via Pricebaba) showing of the OnePlus 7 from almost every angle. Looks like we were at least partly wrong when looking at the last case-obscured leak. The front-facing camera is of the pop-out variety, not a full slider.