ZTE smartphone with front camera behind screen costs 449 euros – Tablets and phones – News

The ZTE Axon 20 5G, the first smartphone with a front camera behind the screen, was released on Monday for 449 euros. ZTE had already presented the smartphone in September, but it was unknown what the phone would cost in the EU until now.

The device is in ZTE’s webshop appeared for the suggested retail price and will only come out in black according to the manufacturer. It was known before that the device would appear on Monday. ZTE announced the smartphone in September. Other manufacturers do not yet have models with the front camera behind the screen. That will probably happen next year.

The phone has a 32-megapixel front camera that looks through a small transparent area of ​​the screen. This is already happening with optical fingerprint scanners behind the screen. The difference here is that the software has to convert the image from the front camera into normal photos and thus correct for the obstruction of light by the pixels in front of it. ZTE mentions the application of several dual-control chips, integrated driver circuits, a special pixel matrix and a self-developed selfie algorithm.The phone can be seen in action in a Unbox Therapy-video. That video should give an impression of how visible the front camera is under various circumstances. It is probably one part of screen supplier Visionox.

The Axon 20 5G has a Snapdragon 765G-soc, has a 4220mAh battery that can be charged at 30W and runs on Android 10. The dimensions are 172.1×77.9×8.0mm and the phone weighs 198g. The OLED screen, which also has a fingerprint scanner behind it, has a diagonal of 6.92 “and a resolution of 2460×1080 pixels, resulting in a screen ratio of 20.5: 9, with a size of 16.1×7.1cm and a surface of almost 114 square centimeters.The cameras on the back are a primary 64-megapixel camera, a camera with an ultra-wide angle lens of 8 megapixels and two 2-megapixel cameras: a macro camera and depth sensor.

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