The majority of mobiles available in Spain increasingly have larger screens. This does not necessarily mean that they are much larger mobiles, since in each new generation we see how the front is taking better advantage of it.
Edge reduction with longer aspect ratios came first, later thenotch, experiments with motorized cameras and finally the holes in the screen for the camera. The next step in this trend is to hide the camera itself within the screen itself, and ZTE seems to be leading the way in this regard.
ZTE presents its camera under the second generation screen
The Chinese company already surprised us a few months ago with the ZTE Axon 20 5G, the first commercial mobile that boasted of hiding the camera under the screen. Its operation is very peculiar, and as we learned, this mobile does not really hide the camera under the main screen, but behind a second screen of reduced size and of worse quality.
This is how the camera works under the screen of the ZTE Axon 20 5GA video shows us the system used to hide the camera under the screen of the ZTE Axon 20 5G that has already been launched in Spain.
That secondary screen in the end is noticed on a day-to-day basis and breaking the immersion that this type of technology should provide (because in the end, if it is as noticeable as the hole in the screen it does not solve anything). The second generation of screen that hides the camera has improved from 200 pixels per inch to 400 pixels per inch, finally equaling in definition to the main panel that governs most of the front, a panel that has been used to improve its fluidity at 120 Hz .
It is not the only improvement in ZTE technology, and it is that in addition to improving one of the most obvious weaknesses of this technology, they have taken the opportunity to incorporate a 3D facial recognition scanner, similar to solutions such as FaceID of the iPhone, a method of Unlocking much safer than conventional face unlock with a camera.
The technology itself is very promising, but it still has a lot to prove. In the first tests with this mobile we have been able to see that the photographic quality is diminished and, although it is expected that it will improve in this second generation, until it is in a commercial mobile we will not be able to determine it with all the guarantees.
Entry ZTE continues to improve its under-screen camera technology and now has its own FaceID featured first on The Free Android.
