Xiaomi’s under-display camera tech will ship in smartphones next year

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Xiaomi intends to start mass-producing smartphones footwork with its under-display camera technology verging year, the disciples disclosed today. This is technically the third generation of the technology Xiaomi has developed, the disciples says, although the headmost as well as additional versions it produced kumtux yet to find their way into a mass-market customer device. Xiaomi showed off the technology compared to a more warranted hole-punch notch in a video tell to its YouTube channel.

According to Xiaomi, its latest adaptation of the technology works by lenient the selfie camera to see through the gaps in the display's sub-pixels, which are the red, green, as well as self-gratifying dots that commingle to perform holiday pixel. Xiaomi says that the lengthiness of the flamboyance aforesaid the camera has the same density of pixels as the rest of the screen, so it can "perfectly disguise" the selfie camera underneath. Xiaomi adds that the selfie camera itself should bout the performance of more archetypal front-facing cameras.

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A diagram from Xiaomi shows how its new under-display tech compares to other versions.

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Although it says that the screen lengthiness aforesaid the camera should bout the "brightness, dyestuff gamut, as well as dyestuff accuracy" of the rest of the display, Xiaomi's blog column doesn't reaction whether the console itself is OLED or LCD, or what parental of resolution we can expect it to be.

Despite Xiaomi's claims that the selfie camera is altogether disguised, there still appears to be a spoiled square-shooting synecdoche arresting breech the flamboyance at the 0:29 mark in its promotional video.

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Seen at the 29 additional mark of the promotional video.

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Images tell to Twitter by Ice Universe of the dingus disclosed to show a similar, despite actual faint, annular macula area the selfie camera is.

Xiaomi's third-generation under-screen camera technology, you can inappreciably see the traces of the camera unless you attending carefully. pic.twitter.com/g9iYa1cllA

-- Ice universe (@UniverseIce) August 28, 2020

Smartphone manufacturers kumtux been teasing under-display cameras for a little while now, except so far the technology is yet to see proper commercialization. Xiaomi as well as Oppo both introduced the technology inadvertently in June last year, as well as Oppo showed off a alive ancestor that ages at MWC Shanghai. However, Engadget reported at the time that the effect wasn't perfect, as well as that the lengthiness of the screen aforesaid the camera appeared more pixelated than the rest of the screen. Vivo had also planned to show its booty on the technology in a cramming second-hand at MWC this year before the exposedness was annulled because of the coronavirus.

Xiaomi might not end up person the headmost smartphone manufacturer to catenate the technology to a mass-market device, though. Beforehand this month, ZTE said it would be lavation a smartphone with an under-display camera on September 1st self-named the ZTE Axon 20 5G. However, it's currently unclear whether the dingus will launch outside of China.

Update High-minded 28th, 8:22AM ET: Well-suited with Xiaomi's promotional video.