We asked and you told us: Under Display Cameras will be your most anticipated smartphone feature of 2021. This is the second year in a row that you have selected this specific feature at the top of your list and there is a good reason – the technology is slow but surely making its way to the phones in the market. Our ZTE Axon 20 5G review is out, you might just want to check it out and see how the first commercially available underscreen camera performed in our testing.
Almost 35% of you want to see selfie cameras hidden under the screen on more devices this coming year, which is miles from the second spot that belonged to variable focal length periscopes. We have seen decent progress in the periscope game over the past couple of years, but all current solutions share the same fixed focal length and switching to a module with continuous zoom would lead to significantly better zoom performance because we didn’t will have more to count. on the crop for the middle steps.
About 14% of voters are eagerly awaiting more affordable foldable phones in 2021. This is understandable because we still haven’t seen foldable phones priced under $ 1,000. There is talk that Samsung will bring “light” versions of its Galaxy Flip and Fold, but details are still scarce on this subject.
Roll-up phones are of interest to some of you as well, and while we’ve seen working prototypes of Oppo before, there seem to be a lot of hurdles in getting this tech ready for mass production.
You also seem excited about the possibility of Nvidia entering the mobile GPU scene given its ARM acquisition earlier this year. Higher resolution camera sensors and a more durable foldable / foldable glass are two of the less interesting answers, while newer uses of Ultra Wideband (UWB) to calculate distance between devices and control home appliances as we have seen demonstrated by Xiaomi have garnered the slightest interest.
Let’s see what the new year brings!
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