
This smartphone hides a camera under the screen but selfies are a bit blurry
Oppo's under-display camera prototype is unveiled at Mobile World Congress Shanghai
Here's a question for you: What do you value more? A totally bezel-free screen? Or great selfie camera?
It might seem like an odd question to ask. But that's the dilemma posed by Oppo's new prototype smartphone, which hides the selfie camera under the screen.

Yup, that's right: No notch, no bezels, no pop-up module, Oppo has finally arrived at what seems to be the perfect solution... except that there is still a compromise here.
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It shouldn't have come as a surprise. Oppo has been trying to manage expectations, with Vice President Shen Yiren repeatedly warning on Weibo that image quality will be compromised.
It's a side-by-side image, showing the original image on the left -- and on the right, a second image shown with Oppo's algorithms applied.
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It just goes to underscore the unique challenge of hiding a camera under the screen.
Smartphone makers have been cranking up the quality of their displays for years now, packing them tighter with more pixels while also dramatically upping the brightness. All of those things make it even more difficult to fit a camera underneath, because a denser display means less room for the camera to "see" through the gaps in the screen.
And it doesn't just impact the camera quality. It affects the screen, too.
Even Oppo are sounding a note of caution.
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