What They Say
The Verge has got hold of the new ZTE Axon 20 5G and is the first phone to have its front-facing camera underneath the OLED. The smartphone has a 6.92″ 1080P OLED that the Verge found gave some colour-shifting when viewed off-axis.
The area where the camera is has lower pixel density than other parts of the screen, which the Verge found to be visible on light parts of the display.
Turning to the camera itself, the blog found that the performance was quite poor. The site pointed out that in the images below (worth a look on the site) were taken with the portrait mode and smoothing filters turned off.
What We Think
Hmmm… I’m not surprised that there is some compromise in the camera performance when it’s under the display, but it looks as though it will be a while before the technology goes in to smartphones from Apple and Samsung, unless they have some ‘magic sauce’ to avoid this level of compromise in image quality. (BR)
A capture from the Verge website of the ZTE Axon Under display camera. The site has a nice comparison slider. Click for higher resolution.
