Samsung under-screen camera confirmed by Samsung

Samsung is about to move closer to the tenth anniversary of its Galaxy S premium range, but it could already be that it will be partying early with two innovative or crazy smartphones next year. In addition to the collapsible Galaxy F, Samsung could prepare something in its own laboratories that no smartphone has yet. According to rumors, a camera on screen or sub-screen could be directed to at least one of its smartphones next year. And the confirmation of this feature has almost come from Samsung itself.

Samsung Display recently hosted its annual OLED forum at the Shenzhen Marriot Hotel in China. Here, the screen manufacturing company has defined its roadmap for 2019, focusing on four types of sensors and hardware that would be hidden under the screen. Naturally, one of these slides leaked, revealing to all the direction that take the phones of Samsung.

Based on the explanation of this image and the universe @Ice, these four "sensor technologies" include the long-awaited fingerprint (FoD), Haptic on Display (HoD) for the game and sound on display (SoD) similar to what Xiaomi and Vivo (but not OPPO) have accomplished with piezoelectric motors. Of course, the biggest novelty here is the "UPS" sensor or Under Panel Sensor, which means, for all intents and purposes, a camera under the screen.

According to some arguments, this inverter could refer to other sensors rather than the camera, although the large dashed circle on the Samsung slide seems to indicate otherwise. XDA also adds to the theory and excitement saying that the display area immediately above the camera sensor would become transparent when using the front camera but would otherwise be normal in other cases of use.

Samsung is already able to selectively control individual pixels on its Super AMOLED screen, but making them transparent will be a real achievement. That is, if they manage to achieve it. Since even a cell phone still does not exist on a Samsung phone, be it flagship or otherwise, you can expect this UPS to take a little longer to cook in camera.