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ZTE Launches World's First Phone With Under-Screen Selfie Camera
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maybe you’ve heard of scale?
Apple has to manufacture 100 million of these things. This company will have to make 3 million.
Just because it can be done, doesn’t mean Apple can do it to scale. Every component has to be available is massive quantities for Apple.
Must be nice to innovate when you only have to produce a limited number. Apple likely couldn’t even begin to source the needed components to make 100 million of these.
Looks nice, but I'm wondering if the photo quality of the front-camera will hold up under the test of time. The more the photos are processed by software the less control the photographer will have over them. But we'll see.
Your thinking like an Apple senior exacutive or shareholder. If Apple want to win me back as a continued buying customer, they've got to do a hell of a lot more than say to customers 'look at our patents if you want to see innovation'.
When it comes to Apple, many things have made me go WOW, the 1984 ad, the different colours ibooks and imacs, G3 powerbooks powermac g3, the ipod touch and thats when the WOW stopped for me. Designs started being repeated time after time but with different upgrades in them. I look at some laptop and desktop case designs for windows based computers and i go WOW. I look at some of the case designs for android mobile phones and i go WOW. I look at case designs for handleld music players and I go WOW but with Apple it's just 'meh, same thing again'.
A faster processor, bigger memory and larger storage is not going to get me to want to spend upwards of $4000 on a mackbook. Apple needs to bring the WOW factor back before I part with my hard earned money.
The pixels likely need to be turned off around the camera for the image to be usable, unless you want a little black circle in the center of your screen during video calls this won’t work.
No notch, no buy. Used to the ugly notch by now plus it helps to stand out from the crowd.
They can sell in America, they cannot sell in the US currently. They were sanctioned and fined in the US and the president believes them to be a threat to national security.
That's for the charging port, the digitizer connector and the microphone, I think. They will get to it eventually. If they can fix the top, I believe they can fix the bottom too.
Eventually, I believe they will have a 2.5D glass design for the edges of the display.
I'm wondering the same thing, how far the software will be able to compensate for what amounts to taking a picture through a painted window.
right. sunlight, reflections, all that good stuff. there'll be a lot of painting in to do, i reckon.
Yes it is, really beautiful. And so because it's not symmetrical then it's not beautiful? Excuse me?
If you want to do anything else during the call, your fingers would show up all the time on video. Same issue with tapping to autofocus in the camera.
Many of the “innovations” that seem to wow people are the same ones Apple has looked into and decided to hold off on producing for a variety of legitimate reasons. Some here have mentioned a very good problem, and that is of scale. What I suggest by looking at patents is that one can see what Apple has been working on and experimenting with to garner a bit of insight of what could come down the pipeline. I’m not saying patents should satisfy the need to put out a new and exciting product, but merely shows that Apple is not sitting idle.
The bottom is thicker because the controller of the display is there. Apple fixed this issue on the iPhone X by folding the screen underneath, but Android OEMs don’t do this.
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So we're just introducing a new problem that needs to be counteracted by heavy image processing. All that to avoid a slightly larger bezel or notch. No thanks.