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- Oppo's Find X.
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- The Chinese manufacturer of phones Oppo has got a unique answer to the clutter of the front camera.
- His new Find X phone includes a motorized camera.
- It's an eye-catching innovation, but the potential drawbacks are obvious.
It was a shock in 2017 when the iPhone X arrived with a beautiful screen almost full screen, ruined by a strange black notch.
The displays without glasses are difficult to remove for the phone manufacturers, because the front camera must be housed somewhere. In the case of Apple, it is housed in the notch.
Apple was leaning boldly into the slot, telling the public that it was adopting what was clearly a design compromise and was aggressively selling the iPhone X as a full-screen display.
That is the luxury power of the iPhone that Android phone manufacturers have actually copied the notch into their own full-screen designs. The OnePlus 6 had a notch, as did the Huawei P20 Pro and the LG G7 ThinQ.
However, a Chinese phone maker called Oppo has split off the list and offers its own solution.
Read more: A major Chinese phone company that foiled Apple in China and India is now heading west
Oppo officially launched in the UK last month, finally introducing its high-end flagship product, Find X, to the UK market at £ 799 ($ 1,000).
Business Insider had about ten minutes with the Find X and found it quite clearly inspired by the iPhone X and its successors. The name, the Find X OLED display, and the software features such as Portrait mode all showed Apple appearance keys.
The Find X has a dazzling camera which means there is no notch on the screen
But there was a feature that was distinctly non-Apple, and that was Find X's solution at the notch.
Oppo's solution was to place the front camera in a motorized exit area that opens automatically when you press the camera button. The camera is not just for photos and selfies, it's also suitable for 3D facial recognition and O-Moji, Oppo's vision on Apple's Animoji.
Here is the pop-out camera in action – look at the top of the phone:
The camera appears on its own shelf and disappears again as soon as you click away from the camera. The movement is surprisingly subtle and visibly designed to be as fluid and discreet as possible.
Here it is from behind, courtesy of YouTuber Brownlee Brands:
And here's what it looks like when you take a picture:
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- The camera popped up is subtle, but you can see it at the top of the phone.
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- Shona Ghosh / Business Insider
It's hard to say how powerful this motorized gadget is. The phone is not waterproof, so it's not clear what would happen if a liquid fell in the slight gap between the camera and the main body of the smartphone. Similarly, it is difficult to say whether the mechanism will break if dust or particles get stuck in it.
With so little time with Find X, we could not test the durability of the contextual camera, for example by dropping it from a height.
And a last practical consideration: how to buy a protective shell for smartphone if the phone keeps changing size?
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- Brownlee Brands / YouTube / Shona Ghosh
In a thorough review of the phone, TechRadar noted that the mechanism takes a full second to unfold and that it could slow down over time.
"The sliding drawer also tends to collect lint and dust in the pockets, which we assume is not particularly healthy for the handset when it gets in," the critics wrote. "When stretched, it also feels a bit spongy, offering moderate resistance, but a little flickering when handled."
The pop-out camera is definitely catchy. At the very least, Oppo could stand out in the overcrowded UK market, where the iPhone is king. While Oppo dominates Asia, alongside its sister companies Vivo and OnePlus, it is still relatively unknown in the West.
As cute as the pop-out is, we have trouble seeing it end the reign of guts in 2019.
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