Let's put that aside: this hands-on is with a prototype smartphone; it won't be released, you won't be able to buy it, and the innovative new technology it contains hasn't been confirmed for future devices. None of this is important because this phone is the future. The nameless device unveiled at Oppo Innovation Day 2019 along with an AR helmet and promises beautiful for 2020: new wearables and R&D investments of Millions of dollars: no buttons, no ports, no visible speakers and, what most impressive, a selfie camera under the screen. If you don't know about Oppo, you'll probably be there soon. The Chinese company has seen resounding success at home and seen wins abroad, ditching one of the first 5G phones in the UK: the Reno 5G. Although there are still no devices to sell in the United States, the Oppo brand has toured televisions around the world after landing the top sponsorship spot for Wimbledon 2019. Now, with Huawei in the hot water and out of the Western game of smartphones, Oppo is ready to jump in and seize headline opportunities with devices like this button-less, portless, and notchless prototype. That's why, even though this future phone looks a bit like a Reno 2, it's so much more than anything we've seen before. This is a preview of what we can expect from phones in 2020 and 2021, and Oppo is one of the few manufacturers brave enough to share its first products with the press.
(Photo credit: Future) No physical button might sound crazy, but we've seen it before: remember the HTC U12 Plus? This was the first phone to forego clickable and mobile controls on the side of the smartphone. Instead, the phone has a raised capacitive area and a touch that vibrates when you're in a hurry. Why kill pimples? Because moving parts are vulnerabilities, another thing that can go wrong when mixing smartphone components. HTC hasn't been successful, but since then, Huawei has been successful with the Huawei Mate 30 Pro. Although it didn't launch in the UK or US due to political issues, Huawei's new flagship has a section that can be duplicated. and move to change the volume of the phone. . It works fine most of the time, and while there's still a power button on the right side of the phone, it's a step toward a future button-less smartphone. Oppo's buttonless solution is a combination of mechanisms from HTC and Huawei. There's a raised power button on the right, but to change volumes, drag a touch zone. Perfect? Not quite, but impressive functionality nonetheless, for a prototype.
No port
(Photo credit: Future) Apple cracked brains by shutting down the iPhone 7's headphone jack back in 2016, and the missing port still divides audiophiles and smartphone users nearly four years later. That said, it was definitely something, just like buttons, ports are weak points. Water damage, pocket lint overload, worn pins; USB ports, like 3,5mm jacks, can fail for any number of reasons, and a broken port means a phone that probably won't recharge. It should be noted that Oppo is not the first to go without a port either. Meizu revealed the Meizu Zero-free smartphone in early 2019, but this phone had sizable glasses, which Oppo eradicated with its concept. Why hasn't it been removed from more phones yet? In the past, wireless charging has been painfully slow, and transferring large files like videos from phone to phone or phone to computer required a wired connection—it's not necessary. 39, so it was not possible to cut the cord. Fortunately, Oppo takes a two-pronged approach to deporting with its prototype. The first component speeds up wireless charging, and this prototype powers up with 30W wireless speeds. To put that in context, the iPhone 11 comes with a 5W wired charger, while the iPhone 11 Pro is slightly faster at 18 W. In both cases, both are slower than this wireless prototype. The phones' other wired charging speeds aren't far from the 30W wireless speeds of the Oppo prototype; the OnePlus 7T Pro charges at 30W, the Huawei Mate 30 Pro at 40W, and the Note 10 Plus at 45W. In fact, the fastest wired phone for charging is the Oppo Reno Ace which isn't even released in the West; This goes up to 65W charging a full tank in about 30 minutes. The other part is Oppo's position on AirDrop. We've seen some Android manufacturers do this with some success: Huawei Share is a great example, and it works across the entire range of MateBook laptops, as well as their smartphones. With that being said, Oppo WiFi File Sharing is created as part of a combined effort with Xiaomi, Vivo, and Realme to create a new standard in Android phones: File Transfer. It won't be as fast as USB-C, but it will enable wireless transfers at about 20 Mbps, pretty fast for small to medium photos and videos.
Now you see Me; the almost invisible selfie camera
(Photo credit: Future) Selfie cameras have become design issues for smartphone makers. They were fine when 5mm glasses were the norm, crushing the screen, but since the fad caught on, phones like the Pixel 3 XL have gone bankrupt from a display standpoint. Really thick giant notched design view. The solutions were waterdrop perforations and notches, sliding components and contextual cameras, but nothing solved the problem: how to make the camera invisible without the need for moving parts? First of all, Oppo put the camera behind an OLED screen. OLEDs don't light up when displaying black, so when the screen in front of the camera doesn't light up, there's no flashing. Then the pixels on the screen that cover the camera are physically larger than the pixels on the rest of the screen. This extra size leaves enough light for the camera to turn into an image. If the screen is black, the selfie camera cutout is completely invisible and almost impossible to tell when there is a dark background. However, run some white or light colors, and this looks like a slightly offset part of the screen color. We took a selfie using the phone and can confirm that it works fine, though we haven't been able to remove the image from the phone for further inspection. Oppo wasn't willing to reveal much more about the details, but did confirm that the part of the screen above the camera shouldn't be square, it could act from a circle to make it even more discreet. Also, while this example is already impressive, the goal is to make it totally invisible, and in turn, Oppo doesn't consider the technology commercially ready until it's released. it isn't. Speaking of totally invisible, it should also be noted that this smart prototype also packs a speaker behind the Huawei P30 Pro's screen that uses vibrations from the screen to amplify sound, so you won't see any visible grilles or holes. on the speakers scattered around the device. However, we first saw this speaker technology in February 2018 when we got our hands on the Vivo Apex Concept. And as for the SIM card, it is a simple eSIM, an iPad Pro 2018 and an Apple Watch Series 5.
When can we expect it?
As mentioned, this prototype will not be released, but its main features will probably be released on Oppo devices in the next two years. The first will probably be 30W wireless charging - we've seen 27W charging on the Mate 30 Pro, so it's not a stretch to push that up to 30W by 2020, potentially in line with Oppo's MWC 2020 announcement. , when it should launch Find X2. The next most likely thing is to feature a buttonless design. That said, giving up pimples seems like a useless evolution at this stage, at least to us. The same can be said for removing the USB-C port for a totally portless experience. Necessary or not, both of these features are clearly slated to go in the oven if this prototype is to be used, so it's likely they'll be available in 2020. The biggest win for Oppo will be the under-display camera if it's the first. in marketing it. That said, it also seems to be the biggest challenge, as Oppo intends to make it totally invisible, and it's certainly not there yet. While we hope to get this feature on devices shipped in 2020, there's a good chance it won't drop until 2021. However, the road is already paved for the glass cup of smartphone design: one front-facing, seamless, really any screen. Not a Camera in Sight Despite Full Shot Feature - We Live in Hope.