Xiaomi Reportedly Working on Phone With 7 Pop-Up Cameras

Pop-up cameras are a event of the smartphone industry'south never-ending quest to squeeze out more screen existent manor. It is aesthetically and practically better than a notched solution simply has its own set of disadvantages. Barring the ASUS ZenFone half dozen, most OEMs take stuck to the aforementioned design philosophy surrounding a pop-up camera. We've seen the likes of Oppo trying to practice something new with it, but information technology is withal to see the light of day. At present, Xiaomi is reportedly working on a smartphone that volition feature seven pop-up cameras in total.

Initially, information technology would seem every bit if there would be seven different camera modules that popped out of different locations. But in reality, it is quite different and actually makes sense. As yous can encounter in the images above, five cameras will be housed on one end of the part that pops upwards and two on the other. Xiaomi could fifty-fifty switch things up by moving the sensors around every bit they deem fit. Barring the Nokia 9 PureView, no smartphone has 5 rear camera sensors, so a 4+3 configuration makes sense. Three front-facing camera sensors are a tad unnecessary, but that has never stopped Chinese companies now, has it?

The design is reminiscent of the original Oppo Detect X, which employed a like camera mechanism. That was, withal, a lot larger and clunkier compared to what Xiaomi has in mind. This isn't the most terrible idea we've seen, and it might actually work if implemented correct. It'll nevertheless have all the shortcomings of a device that comes with popular-upward cameras, though. Moving parts add together an extra point of failure to the device. If the module that hosts the photographic camera assortment is as large equally the patent shows, it'll pose a serious threat to the device's structural integrity.

It could be months or fifty-fifty years before a smartphone with such a design sees the light of twenty-four hours. Companies often patent all kinds of weird designs with hopes that they'll use information technology in a working product anytime.

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