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LG’s Rollable phone is real and launching in 2021

LG teased its Rollable phone yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show, and now the company is confirming it’s a real product that will be available in 2021. The LG Rollable has what the company calls a “unique resizable screen” that extends from a phone into a small tablet display. The screen slides in and out of place to provide a bigger screen area.

“Our management wanted to show that it is a real product, as there were many rumors around the rollable phone,” says an LG spokesperson in a statement to Nikkei. “As it is released at CES 2021, I can tell that it will be launched this year.”

Nikkei also reports that LG is working with China’s BOE Technology Group on the rollable screen technology. LG has not yet confirmed what display tech the Rollable is using, or any details on the different display sizes.

The LG Wing.

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LG first started working on the Rollable as part of the company’s “Explorer Project” experiments. The company has used this project to previously launch its LG Wing smartphone, with a rotating design and two OLED displays.

Now that LG has branded its new LG Rollable phone and confirmed it’s coming to market this year, we’ll likely see a race among phone manufacturers to roll this rollable screen technology out. TCL also demonstrated future phone concepts back in March, and Oppo teased a concept device with an expandable OLED display late last year.

LG Rollable: the incredible smartphone that rolls up appears at CES 2021! Here's how it works

LG messes up the cards and decides to unveil its first smartphone with a roll-up display to the world. It is not an official presentation but in fact in a video presentation at CES 2021 this device appears which automatically expands its panel. Watch!

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That LG was working on a device with a display ‘ ‘rollable’ it was known but that it was actually so far ahead in the project perhaps it was not believed yet yesterday during the conference at CES 2021 unveiled for a few minutes its first smartphone with an expanding display: LG Rollable. A not new and original idea that other companies are also developing, OPPO first of all, and that certainly cannot go unnoticed among the most passionate users in the world of smartphones and technology.

LG Rollable: this is how it’s done

Despite the doubts and perplexities given by a smartphone that rolls up and sees many problems in the development of the case, LG Rollable has become practically a reality. In the short clip unveiled by the brand, a normal smartphone is shown in the landscape which suddenly and even fully automatic expands its display, with an electronic mechanism that makes it become a real small tablet. Conversely, at a later time the same panel does nothing but shrink by switching from tablet to smartphone mode.

LG’s goal is to show that the ” Rollable ” smartphone exists and will soon arrive on the market. Virtually null the details of the smartphone that LG will keep secret as much as possible until the real presentation event of the device, which is not yet known. In this case the idea of LG is in clear opposition with that of Samsung, HUAWEI or Motorola that we have seen during the year have decided to focus on devices with classic folding solutions, both vertically and horizontally. LG Rollable unlike a classic foldable always maintains the same thickness by simply expanding the screen and perhaps making its use more comfortable.

On a technical level we think of an OLED panel that can reach a size of 7.4 inches once fully expanded starting from a 6.8 inch base with a resolution that would expand from 1080 pixel a 1600 pixels thus allowing a mini tablet format capable of enlarging the contents to be seen on the screen.

CES 2021: TCL's roll-up AMOLED display lets you create smartphones with a 6.7 to 7.8 inch variable screen

Another technology that seems to be popularized in this 2021 is that of roller screens. We have seen companies like Oppo or LG show some prototypes and technologies, and now it is TCL who shows its proposal for a rollable AMOLED panel, with a similar technology but applied in a slightly different.

Roll-up panel of TCL varies in size between 6.7 “and 7.8”

If in the Oppo and LG examples we saw that the prototypes of smartphones allowed to extend their screens across the width, that is, extending the narrowest part of the screen, in the case of TCL what they have shown is the opposite, allowing the longest part to be extended and reduced to achieve a more compact smartphone. In this way, you can go from 6.7 inches to 7.8 inches.

It would be, something similar to what Motorola did with your Razr or Samsung Flip Z, but using a motorized roll-up screen system instead of a folding screen.

Among the few specifications that TCL has given of the prototype, we can highlight its thickness of less than 10 mm or the bending radius of 3mm. At the moment there are no more details nor do we know when the first terminals with this AMOLED roll-up screen will arrive on the market.

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CES: LG Rollable: LG shows a smartphone with a display that can be rolled out

LG showed a teaser for a mobile phone with a roll-up screen at CES: According to the video, the smartphone can be extended from mobile phone to tablet size. According to a short video, the device is called “LG Rollable”.

LG shows a short teaser video for its rolling smartphone

(Source: LG) It is currently unclear how the extension mechanism in the LG Rollable works. The concept is reminiscent of comparable prototypes that Chinese manufacturers such as TCL and Oppo have already demonstrated. In the TCL prototype, the display bulges into the body when the cell phone is contracted. If it is pulled apart, the motorized display rolls out over the entire length. According to TCL, your own mobile phone has a display size of 6 75 inches in the standard state, the mobile phone then comes out to 7.8 inches .

Oppo has with the Oppo X 2021 also presented a display with such a mechanism. The display can be extended and retracted at the push of a button. All of these concepts rely on a rollable OLED panel – but none of them has been on the market yet.

LG teasers and is silent The future of the LG Rollable is also open. LG has so far not given any information on whether the variable cell phone should come on the market or only intended as a design study. However, it would not be the first time that LG is offering unusual mobile phone concepts for sale: The LG Wing has, for example, two displays that can rotate against each other so that they form a cross. The LG Wing is offered in Germany for 1100 Euro.

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LG teases its Rollable phone again

LG is once again teasing its rollable phone. While we’ve seen brief hints in the past, at CES today, LG provided the best look at the device so far. Named LG Rollable, the device has what the company calls a “unique resizable screen” that transforms from a phone into a small tablet. The screen slides in and out of place to extend its surface area.

It’s merely a concept right now, as part of LG’s “Explorer Project” experiments, and we still don’t know exactly what technology LG is using or the size of the expandable display. LG has previously used its Explorer Project to introduce its LG Wing smartphone, with a wild rotating design and two OLED displays.

LG Rollable is the name for the expandable device.

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It’s still not clear whether LG’s Rollable phone will ever make it to market, but the company has now branded this experiment so it seems more likely we’ll see an LG Rollable in the future.

Other companies are also investigating rollable phone displays. TCL showed off a number of future phone concepts last year, and Oppo also demonstrated a concept device with an expandable OLED display. Phone manufacturers have yet to move beyond the concept and experiment phase with their rollable phones, though.

CES 2021: LG reveals its first smartphone with a roll-up screen

At the end of its CES event 2021, LG has shown by surprise its new terminal LG Rollable, a mobile that, as its name suggests, is equipped with a screen with a roll-up panel that allows you to vary the size of the terminal and its screen to suit the user.

In the small video you can see how the LG Rollable is unfolded and little by little by means of a motorized system, it reduces its size until it remains in a format and diagonal similar to that of a conventional smartphone.

The rolling screen mechanism of the LG Rollable is similar to the Oppo X 2021

It is not the first time we see something thus, in fact it seems a system similar to the one Oppo taught with its X 2021, a mobile with a rollable OLED screen developed by BOE that showed a very similar, with a motorized system that enlarged or reduced the size of the terminal nal, rolling and unrolling the screen.

In the case of the LG Rollable it is expected that the screen is manufactured by LG itself, but at least for now the company has not revealed more details or specifications about this curious smartphone. Previous leaks spoke of it being capable of going from a 6.8-inch diagonal to a 7.4 “diagonal, but in a more square format that gives more usable area.

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Computer Engineer by training, editor and hardware analyst at Geeknetic from 2011. I love to gut everything that passes through my hands, especially the newest hardware that we receive here for reviews. In my time Free fiddling with 3d printers, drones and other gadgets. For anything here you have me.

TechStage | Top 5: Smartphones with more than 60 Hz up to 200 euros

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Top smartphones offer displays with 120 – Hertz-Bildwied recovery rate and cost like 1200 Euro and more. High Hertz numbers are much cheaper, let’s go under 150 Euro.

In addition to more cameras, larger displays and more and more memory, the trend for smartphones has been towards displays with ever higher refresh rates for some time. Until a year or two ago it was standard at 60 Hertz and no one even thought about how high this number actually is, that has changed significantly in the meantime. And even if such advances first move into particularly expensive high-end smartphones and remain there in the minds of prospective buyers, screens with more than 60 Hertz in the middle – and even entry-level has been passed through.

A heart for Hertz But what is that all about? For screens, the Hertz number indicates how often an image can be repeated per second. 60 Hertz sounds like a lot, but fast moving content actually looks blurred. Therefore, TVs from native 100 Hertz as liquid, good gaming monitors are currently even in the range of 144 Hertz or more. Put simply: the higher the Hertz number, the more fluid movements are perceived.

To tell the difference from 60 to 90 To understand Hertz or more without a corresponding device, owners of a smartphone with 4K video recording function should try the following: Once a video in Full HD should be 60 Hertz (1080 p / 60), but another video in 4K and 30 Hertz can be recorded. Both videos must include a relatively quick sideways pan. When you then look at it on a larger screen, it quickly becomes clear: The 4K image appears sharper and clearer in the sequences without panning, but when panning itself is blurred. At the 1080 p- Recording is exactly the other way around: Without panning it looks less brilliant, but does not lose sharpness when panning. You can also see that when you stop the video in the middle of the pan – at 30 frames per second, most intermediate frames will be blurred.

On the smartphone, the difference between 60 to 90 Hertz or more obviously when scrolling in menus or in the browser. If you make the typical flick movement with your finger to scroll content faster, you will still be able to perceive and read the writing as sharp at a high Hertz number. At 60 Hertz is different.

Disadvantage However, the question is whether the advantage of the higher refresh rate can be scaled up without restriction lets and what disadvantages there are. Our experience shows that the step of 60 to 90 Hertz is more serious in smartphones than the step from 90 to 120 or even 144 Hertz. In addition, higher frame rates demand more computing power from the smartphone and correspondingly reduce the battery life. Depending on the refresh rate, the running time of the mobile phone decreases by 10 to 25 Percent – that is very noticeable.

But as we wrote in the test for the first smartphones with a higher Hertz number have: Anyone who has tried the smoother display for a longer period of time does not want to go back to 60 Hertz. That corresponding smartphones with 084 or even 120 Hertz do not have to be expensive, our list of the cheapest smartphones with more than 60 Hertz.

1st place: Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Highlights of the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC is the 6.7 inch IPS display with a resolution of 2021 × 1080 pixels and 120 – Hz playback. This also results in a high sampling rate of 200 Hz, which promises particularly high responsiveness. When it comes to the camera, Xiaomi relies on a quartet 60 – Megapixel main camera, 13 – Megapixel wide angle as well as macro and depth sensor. A Snapdragon serves as the drive 732 G, which is flanked by 6 GB of RAM. Internal is the memory 64 GByte large, it can be expanded. The battery with its 5160 mAh and 33 – Watt fast charging easily copes with the high Hertz number, in our test report on the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC we certified the device as being very good value for money Relationship.

Place 2: Realme 7 120 Hertz are under 300 Euro difficult to find, accordingly the remaining test subjects in our top 10 also “only” 90 Hertz. This is also the case with the Realme 7, which has a 6.5 inch IPS LCD with a sampling rate of 120 Hz. Here, too, a quad-cam configuration is used with the same division as the first-placed Poco X3, but here the manufacturer only uses 48 and 8 megapixels . The drive here is a Mediatek Helio G 95, 6 GB of RAM are also used. The internal memory measures 64 GByte (expandable), the battery is with 5000 mAh almost as strong as the Poco phone. Here is the test of the Realme 7.

3rd place: Realme 6s It gets cheaper with the Realme 6s. For (at the time of writing) around 160 Euro, the device offers the same display as the second-placed Realme 7, and the cameras are identical. Interested parties have to make slight compromises with the chipset. Here comes the somewhat older, but not significantly weak Helio G 90 T is used, which is also combined with 4 instead of 6 GB of RAM. The battery is also a bit weaker with 4300 mAh . Android 10 is already installed, as with all models in this Top 5.

Place 4: Realme 6 And another Realme model: The Realme 6 (test report) was one of the first cheap models with 120 – Hz display. It is no different from the screens of the two aforementioned Realme models. The quad cam consists of 64 – Megapixel main camera, 8-megapixel wide angle, macro and depth sensor. Here, too, the manufacturer relies on a combination of Helio G 85 T, 4 GByte RAM and 64 GByte internal memory. The battery delivers 4300 mAh.

5th place: Oppo A 53 s Mi Oppo finally appears again a manufacturer other than Realme in our top 5. The Oppo A 53 s is also the cheapest model in this listing, it cost around 145 Euro. You can tell from the features: The 6.5-inch display offers 90 Hz, but only extended 720 p-resolution. The triple cam consists only of the main camera (13 megapixels) as well as macro and depth sensor. Oppo relies on a Snapdragon 460 as a drive that does its work in combination with 4 GB of RAM. There is a surprise with the internal memory, it measures proud 128 GByte and is expandable. The battery is with 5000 mAh in relation to technology quite strong.

Conclusion A particularly smooth image reproduction thanks to the high refresh rate is available for well below 200 Euro. Whether one for it Users have to decide for themselves if they do without Full HD + resolution – we advise against it. At least the first four smartphones show that there is a lot of technology for surprisingly little money. If you are not interested in a high refresh rate, you should take a look at our other articles.

We have graded our leaderboards and guides according to price, they are on average once per Quarterly updated. Suitable price ranges could include the best smartphones up to 95, to 200 or to 300 Euro.

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Oppo Find X3 Lite incoming as a re-branded Oppo Reno5 5G

Last year Oppo brought some members of its Reno4 lineup under the Find X branding in some of its markets, so the latest report doesn’t really come as a big surprise.

According to @evleaks, the upcoming Find X3 Lite will be a re-branded Reno5 5G. The Find X3 Pro and the vanilla Find X3 will be the stars of the show this spring and will hold all of the new features, unlike the X3 Lite.

The source also shares a couple of renders showing off an identical design to the Reno5 5G minus the “Reno Glow” inscription that the Reno5 5G units have. The same color Aurora Blue, Moonlight Black, Starry Dream will be available judging by the renders, though.

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ZTE Axon 20 5G review: Is the under-screen camera the future?

(Pocket-lint) – Phone-makers have been getting creative when it comes to selfie cameras. We’ve had the notch, the punch-hole, the pop-up. Now it’s the turn of the under-display camera, with the ZTE Axon 20 5G the first phone to launch to market with such a design (despite Oppo showing off the technology first).

“ZTE?” we hear you say. Yep, the tech giant has been floating around in the peripheries in recent years, launching some phones – but they’ve rarely been available to easily purchase outside of its native China. The Axon 20 5G, therefore, represents not only a first from a technological point of view thanks to that camera, but a renewed push for the company to appeal to a wider audience.

Design & Display

6.92-inch OLED ‘True Full’ display
- 1080 x 2460 resolution
- Under-display camera
- 90Hz refresh rate
Dimensions: 172 x 78 x 8mm / Weight: 198g
Glass front & rear, aluminium frame
Finishes: Black, Gold, Blue, Purple
Under-display fingerprint scanner

On the face of it the ZTE Axon 20 5G is one of the more exciting phones to launch in 2020. The very idea of an under-display camera has been talk of the town for some time now, so it wasn’t expected that a lesser-known brand in the West would be the one to lead the charge.

Thing is, the Axon 20 5G isn’t really a flagship phone. It’s got a middling spec overall and a design that, in some respects, doesn’t really benefit the presence of the under-display camera to its fullest extent.

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Take the flat screen’s side bezel, for example. Now, we’re not saying it’s mega-bezel by any means, but when curved-screen devices help to hide the apparent presence of the black border from line of sight it makes the screen look more full.

The Axon 20 5G might well have its selfie camera hidden under the panel, but it’s the entire screen’s bezel that gives the screen a boxed-in and ‘framed’ look – so it has a lower screen-to-body ratio compared to many devices that carry a notch of punch-hole camera. That takes away from the under-screen camera’s potential somewhat.

Nonetheless, in the dark of winter in the UK (where we’re sat reviewing this device) you would initially think there’s no camera present under that screen at all. It’s convincingly hidden away, which is something of a revelation. Closer inspection, however, shows that you can see the lens beneath – if any light catches the screen, for example, so brighter days it may appear less accomplished.

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Furthermore, while images do successfully overlay where the selfie camera lives, they are partially disrupted, almost as if transformed into some 16-bit image of old (scroll through the gallery above to see close-ups). The resolution is lesser in the oblong area surrounding the camera. You’ll need to look fairly closely to care about it, though, but open a full-screen game and you’ll see a criss-cross effect over that small camera area.

Given phone design, however, most apps and user interfaces don’t utilise the top centre section of a screen (or fullest side section, if in landscape orientation). Thus much of the time this camera area will be blacked out anyway and you can more or less forget that it’s even there. Especially as here it’s tricky to see without eyeballing it up really close.

So while there are improvements that can happen in future iterations, as a first attempt the Axon 20 5G’s hidden under-screen camera is convincing, with the highlighted caveats above being part and parcel of such an implementation.

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Otherwise the Axon 20 5G’s design is generally inoffensive. It’s easy to become blasé about phone design when there’s such a normal format these days. A chunky rear camera unit with excessive numbers of lenses? Check. A glass rear that’s almost magnetic to fingerprint smears? Check. No 3.5mm headphone jack, a single base speaker, a smattering of branding including (unnecessarily) the product name? Check, check, check.

From the right angle, however, the Axon 20’s finish has this almost rippling-like way of catching the light, as you can see in our photos. It rarely looks as much like this to the eyes, but it’s a cool effect nonetheless.

Performance

Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor, 8GB RAM
Android 10 operating system, MiFavor 10.5 re-skin
4,220mAh battery capacity, 30W fast-charge
Liquid Cooling with carbon nanofiber
128GB storage, microSD expansion
5G connectivity

As we said above, the Axon 20 5G isn’t aiming to topple flagships with best-in-class internals. This phone’s approach is to bring new technology to the mid-range, competing with other models that utilise the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 platform.

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In reality, however, this step-down Qualcomm platform is a great success. It caters for 5G as and when you’re in a network area (the Axon 20 has specific controls to disable this if you prefer, for the sake of battery savings). It’s more than capable of handling a plethora of tasks, including gaming to a relatively high level – we’ve had zero problems playing South Park: Phone Destroyer.

Indeed, the use of the 700-series platform is something many phone-makers are opting for, from LG with the Velvet to Vivo with the X51. All of which have proven to put in decent performance with solid battery innings. The ZTE follows a similar suit, capable across the board and long-lasting too. The 4,220mAh battery is capacious enough to easily crunch through a day – we’ve been using about 50 per cent over a 14 hour period, so it’s close to a two-dayer.

That said, ZTE’s MiFavor user interface (UI), which is built over the top of Google’s Android 10 operating system, doesn’t half go excessive when it comes to trying to save battery. The autobrightness is obsessed with seemingly trying to make you think you’ve gone blind, dimming the screen levels excessively in any conditions – we’ve been frequently frustrated with manually adjusting it time and again. The screen also suffers from ‘black crush’ at these lower intensity levels.

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The software isn’t otherwise disruptive like on some competitors’ systems though. MiFavor has swipe controls which are a little finicky, but help to give the screen more real-estate with the absence of Android soft-keys taking up the bottom row. There’s no duplication of app stores like you’d find in a Xiaomi phone, for example, as ZTE is Google Play Store only. There’s no ads that try and promote other apps when you’re downloading an update. There’s generally little fuss at all, with a mostly Android-like experience.

Sign-in benefits from that under-screen selfie camera, too, should you wish to activate face unlock, or there’s an adept under-display fingerprint scanner too. It’s a reasonably fluid experience, one that’s massively let down by the overzealous autobrightness adjustment.

Cameras

Rear ‘quad camera’ setup:
- Main: 64-megapixel, f/1.8 aperture, 1/1.72in sensor size
- Wide (120 degrees): 8MP, f/2.2
- Macro: 2MP, f/2.4
- Depth: 2MP, f/2.4
Selfie under-screen camera:
- 32-megapixel, f/2.0 aperture

We’ve covered the selfie camera in more detail up top, but no doubt you’ll be wondering just what the quality is like given that it can “see” through a display.

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The answer: not that great. This 32-megapixel optic doesn’t use multi-pixel processing to obtain improved quality, as such there’s quite a lot of grain even in daylight, particularly in shadow areas. The images are far larger than you’ll need too, while colour consistency seems to vary shot-to-shot – with a greener balance sometimes rearing its head.

Pop it into Portrait mode, however, and the camera does scale things down (to 5-megapixels, for whatever reason), adding the over-soft background blur and, well, making everything just look soft and blurry.

So while ZTE is first to getting a selfie camera under a display, its results aren’t a revelation.

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What about the main camera unit to the rear? This is a bit of a mixed bag. There’s a trend in 2020 to lump together a bunch of cameras for no real reason: here there’s a 2MP depth sensor that’s not needed; a 2MP macro camera that’s low resolution and can’t autofocus and is hard to use; and an 8MP wide-angle camera that’s of sub-par quality compared to what else is on the market.

It’s the main 64-megapixel sensor that steps in to save things somewhat. Keep your attention on this one and there’s some reasonably good results, because it does use four-in-one pixel processing to output 16MP shots as standard. There’s still some grain and the fidelity isn’t class-leading, but with a steady hand you’ll be able to get shots with enough detail and balance. Even the night mode works well in low-light conditions.

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The ZTE isn’t the only culprit to oversell its cameras, it seems to be the flavour of 2020. Stick with the main rear optic and you’ll be plenty happy, it delivers what’s needed at this price point. The addition of depth, macro and wide-angle cameras add disappointment though. And that selfie camera ought to be more adept rather than high-resolution, because the selfie camera is the premier point of this phone’s existence.

Verdict

The ZTE Axon 20 5G shows that under-screen cameras will be the future. But it also shows that details matter – and the selfie camera here ought to be better quality to show off the premier point of this phone’s very existence. The rear cameras, too, fail to hit the mark overall.

Elsewhere we think the design doesn’t highlight the hidden camera appeal quite enough; a curved screen with almost invisible bezel would push that point to the fore even more than this flat screen and dark bezel surround.

As a day-to-day phone, however, we’ve found ZTE’s software to be humble to Android in its approach, meaning it doesn’t outwardly busy things like some competitors like to do. Its main issue, however, is the overzealous autobrightness which descends into darkness in all conditions unlike any other phone we’ve used this year.

It might be an outlier, as a little-known brand in the West, but the ZTE Axon 20 5G shows its worth, while delivering a long-lasting and ample performance in a fairly affordable package.

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Google Pixel 4a 5G

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Google goes big on computational photography, but the results are great – and there aren’t an abundance of unwarranted cameras to be found here. Yes, there’s a punch-hole rather than an under-display camera. And no, the battery life isn’t as good as the ZTE. But as a rounded package – one that’s a bit smaller than the ZTE too – we think it’s one of the best 5G phones in and around this budget.

Read our review

Writing by Mike Lowe.

Samsung patent reveals how the company plans to make under-display cameras

A recently filed patent at USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) by Samsung reveals how the company plans to make the under-display camera tech work. And unsurprisingly, it’s not all that different from the current implementation we’ve seen from Oppo and ZTE. We even had the chance to review the ZTE Axon 20 5G.

The document talks about a “Display Device” with two separate but still connected display panels. The better part of the screen uses a standard matrix while a smaller panel can be positioned near the top bezel or near the top-left or right angle. The smaller panel has a significantly higher light transmission and houses not only a camera but also an IR blaster and a flash beneath. Additionally, the panel has a lower resolution too to help further with the light transmission.

This is almost exactly what Visionox did with the ZTE Axon 20 5G’s display. The small “cutout” at the top has visibly lower resolution and lets more light to pass through it.

However, we expect Samsung to have polished the tech considerably before release, especially if it plans to implement it on a high-end device. Some rumors suggest that the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold3 will be the first Samsung phone to premier the tech but we are still far away from such release and we don’t have any hard evidence too.

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TechStage | Top 10: The Best Mobile Mini Photo Printers 2021

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Mini Photo Printer are small, cost 50 to 130 Euro and print photos anywhere thanks to the battery. In this top – 10 – List we show the ten best – including a few exotic ones.

Whether on a children’s birthday party, a family celebration, an event or for letters to grandma and the photo wall at home: pictures from the photo printer are in great demand, as they usually only allow digital data to be touched. Photo printers become really flexible when they are still mobile and compact. Zinc photo printers are the most common. But some exotic species are also shaking up the market.

We have tested twelve mobile photo printers, the list is constantly growing. In the comparison test 2019: We compare them with mobile photo printers. We collect the comparison test and all individual tests on the photo printer topic page. This list of the best sorts the ten best models and helps with the purchase decision at a glance.

Product Huawei CV 80 Canon Selphy QX 05 Canon Zoemini HP Sprocket Plus Polaroid Zip Prynt Pocket Instax Mini Link Fujifilm Instax Share SP-3 Canon Selphy CP 1300 Mbrush (Princube) Peripage A6 TechStage Note 1 1 1 2 4 5 2 2 1 2 2 Print quality Well Well Well Satisfying Well Satisfying Very good Very good Very good Sufficient Inadequate Printing method zinc Thermosublimation zinc zinc zinc zinc OLED exposure OLED exposure Thermal sublimation Inkjet B / W thermal paper Processing Very good Well Very good Very good Very good Inadequate Sufficient Very good Well Very good Well Weight in g 189 445 160 204 186 162 244 312 860 162 155 Display – – – – – – – – ✔ – – Images per battery charge approx. 15 – 20 approx. 15 – 20 approx . 15 – 20 approx. 15 – 20 approx. 15 – 20 approx. 15 – 20 up to 100 approx. 160 approx. 30 – 40 lots N / A Compatibility Android / iOS Android / iOS Android / iOS Android / iOS Android / iOS iOS Android / iOS Android / iOS / Camera Android / iOS / Camera Android / iOS / Windows / Mac OS Android / iOS Connectivity Bluetooth WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS Bluetooth Bluetooth Bluet ooth Lightning port Bluetooth WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS WLAN / USB stick / SD card WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS Bluetooth Image size in cm 5 × 7.6 6.8 × 6.8 5 × 7.6 5.8 x 8.7 5 × 7.6 5 × 7.6 8.6 × 5.4 6.2 x 6.2 10 x 15 1.4 × 130 5.7 × XX Pictures self-adhesive ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ – – – / ✔ – – / ✔ Price in euros (as of Jan. 21) 90 120 110 — 123 — 105 170 115 (+ 50 for battery) 113 37 Picture price in euros (as of: Oct. 18) approx. 0, 50 approx. 0, 80 approx. 0, 50 approx. 0, 50 approx. 0, 50 approx. 0, 50 approx. 0, 70 approx. 0, 80 approx. 0, 20 low nearly nothing 1st place: Huawei CV 80 The Huawei CV 80 Mini photo printer is the best zinc printer we have tested so far. Not only does it look very chic, it is superbly made and extremely compact. It has a really good app with all the important functions, which convinces with very good user guidance. The quality of the printed images is surprisingly good and better than other zinc photo printers.

What made us decide to use the Huawei CV 80 to sit on the throne, is its low price of 90 Euro. We think it’s great that the Huawei CV 80 equal 49 pieces of photo paper are enclosed, which are good 20 cost Euro and are compatible with all zinc printers that use the same photo format.

Review Huawei CV 80

2nd place: Canon Selphy CP 1300 The Canon Selphy CP 1300 is the largest photo printer we have tested and only deserves that to a limited extent “Mini” rating. It fits easily in backpacks, not even in large trouser pockets. At least he’s clearly mobile, comes but with an optional battery, which then increases the total weight to 1290 g increased.

He uses thermal sublimation as a printing process. The CP 1300 when printing from a wax foil cartridge supplied with the photo paper, individual color foils roll over the in four steps Picture. The image quality is very good, comparable to the instant printers in Müller, Rossmann, DM and Co. The individual prints are cheap compared to the competition, so they cost 108 Printouts only good 20 Euro.

Test report Canon Selphy CP 1300

3rd place: Canon Zoemini The Canon Zoemini is very compact and small. It also looks superbly processed. Only the clearly visible fingerprints on the black version bothers us in the test. The Zoemini uses the zinc printing process. Its image quality is above average for this printing technology and the app is impressive and easy to use. It even offers some more or less useful augmented reality functions: placing sunglasses & Co. over faces works well. Contrastingly, “funny” facial contortions produce creepy results. All in all, the Canon Zoemini is a very good fun printer for parties and events.

Test report Canon Zoemini

4th place: Fujifilm Instax Share SP-3 The Fujifilm Instax Share SP-3 looks futuristic on the outside and is a real eye-catcher. It is exceptionally well made. In contrast to its widely used Bluetooth colleagues, it uses WLAN as the connection standard. That makes the connection to the smartphone a bit more cumbersome. Allegedly one battery charge is enough for up to 160 Printouts. With our about 20 test prints we could not suck the battery empty.

The printing process used here is OLED exposure. The pictures come out of the printer very quickly, after which it takes a few more minutes, equivalent to the iconic Polaroids, until the picture shines in full color. The image quality is good, but it always looks like there’s a retro filter over it. The waterproof plastic material of the prints is great. They feel valuable like no other photo printer. Unfortunately they are with about 80 Cent per printout expensive.

Test report Fujifilm Instax Share SP-3

5th place: Canon Selphy QX 10 The Canon Selphy sets like the CP 3000 from the same manufacturer on thermal sublimation as a printing process. Here, too, the image moves out and back in several times during printing to apply the various layers. Unfortunately the QX offers 10 not the outstanding print quality of the CP 3000. Even so, the image quality is good and better than that of the zinc printer.

The printed area of the self-adhesive pictures in the Polaroid look is a maximum of 6.8 × 6.8 centimeters. The photo paper always includes a roll of colored film. The printer itself is with 115 Euros not overly expensive, but the pictures do. They each cost 70 Cent.

Test report Canon Selphy QX 10

Place 6: Instax Mini Link The Instax Mini Link uses the same OLED process as the Fujifilm Instax Share SP-3. Correspondingly, the roughly 70 Cent expensive pictures from the printer very quickly and then need some time to fully expose. The picture quality is good, a retro effect can also be seen here. With one battery charge up to 100 pictures be in there. With our 20 We did not reach the battery limit for test prints.

The We didn’t like weird app. The appearance of the Instax Mini Link takes getting used to and is somewhat reminiscent of a hard case – including creaking.

Test report Fujifilm Instax Mini Link

7th place: Mbrush (Princube) The mbrush, identical to the Princube, is a real exotic. He uses an enclosed HP for printing 50 XL ink cartridge. To create an image, the user pulls the mbrush over a surface. A 10 mm wide print strip that can produce a large picture with several strokes on paper. This works quite well after a little practice, but does not produce consistently high print quality. Among other things, the selected surface is decisive for them. Paper, cardboard, plastic, and wood work well. Here the material absorbs the printing ink well. If these materials are coated, the ink cannot penetrate, which leads to a washed-out printed image. Since the ink in the supplied cartridge is water-soluble, the print image smears even with light touch. Printing on skin works rather poorly than right – despite the supplied attachment for the print head, which increases the distance a little.

Nevertheless, the mbrush is fun. It is a very satisfying feeling to glide over a surface with it and to leave behind a colorful stripe of motif. We don’t like the uninspired software and the cumbersome control via WLAN. The quick drying of the print head is also annoying.

Test report Mbrush (Princube)

Place 8: Peripage A6 The Peripage A6 is only partially suitable as a photo printer. Its black and white display is simply too bad for that. He uses thermal paper as is often the case with receipts. Still, it’s really fun. Because the small, self-adhesive notes come out of the printer in a flash and are suitable for all sorts of nonsense. They are also dirt cheap. Ordered from the China shop, a meter of printing paper costs only a few cents.

Test report Peripage A6

9th place: HP Sprocket Plus The HP Sprocket Plus prints in the zinc process , but his pictures are a bit larger than those of the other printers. In most cases, the image quality is okay. It shows details clearly, color gradients can lead to the formation of clusters. It also shows partially clear stripes, especially in light areas of the picture, which probably come from the rollers over which the printout moves when it comes out. Overall, the printer is a bit too expensive; buyers spend less money on other zinc printers. A photo costs about 45 Cent.

Test report HP Sprocket Plus

Place 10: Polaroid Zip Too bad, Polaroid, that was nothing. Even if the Polaroid Zip makes a decent impression at first glance thanks to its good and compact workmanship. Even the image quality plays a role in the zinc printer’s front field. But the app completely spoils the fun. It apparently randomly distorts photos, has problems with portrait images, is hungry for data, offers some features that simply don’t work and regularly crashes. Here Polaroid has saved in the wrong place.

Test report Polaroid Zip

Conclusion The Huawei CV 80 has hardly any weaknesses and is still the most affordable. The Canon Selphy CP 1290 prints on the most beautiful and his pictures are quite cheap. But it is unwieldy. But we can also recommend the OLED printers from Instax, especially because of their extremely charming printouts.

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Oppo has been advancing mobile cameras for years now, delivering memorable phones like the Oppo Find 7 and more recent examples like the Reno 10x zoom and Find X2 Pro. Now the company is preparing to launch the Oppo Reno5 Pro 5G in India on January 18. But first the company wanted to talk about the secret sauce behind the phone’s camera.

The camera is backed by the Full Dimension Fusion Portrait Video system, part of which is the AI Highlight Video. It uses AI to examine the lighting conditions of the scene and apply the appropriate algorithm – Ultra Night Video or Live HDR.

The system uses adaptive algorithms to enhance the brightness and dynamic range of the image while reducing noise. This is used both for nighttime shots and challenging daytime conditions as well.

Adaptive Noise Reduction combines the usual multi-frame fusion with temporal noise reduction – basically, using previous frames (adjusted to compensate for camera movement). This also allows the system to reduce ghosting due to fast movement.

All told, processing takes 20 milliseconds. Compared to the previous image processing system, AI Highlight Video uses 40% less power but improves the brightness and clarity of the image.

The Oppo Reno5 Pro 5G will be the first phone in India to be powered by the MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ chipset. It’s exactly this chipset that will run the processing algorithms of AI Highlight Video.

The phone (which already launched in China and is heading for the global markets too) also features a 64 MP main plus an 8 MP ultra wide cameras on the back along with a 32 MP camera on the front. It has a 6.55” OLED display with 90 Hz refresh rate and a 4,350 mAh battery with 65W fast charging.

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The Snapdragon SoC 480 comes as a solution for 5G connectivity in lower-mid-range smartphones.

Qualcomm has added a new SoC to offer 5G connectivity to the mid-low range . This processor will be key in smartphones around 200 Euros, as they can enjoy the 5G with Qualcomm without having to fork out for higher-end models like the powerful Snapdragon 888. The Snapdragon 720 G also offers 5G connectivity, but at a higher price as we could see in the Oppo Reno4 5G .

He SoC Snapdragon 480 comes with 8 cores in a distribution of 2 + 6 cores . For this, it has 2 high-performance Cortex-A cores 76 running at 2 GHz and the other 6 will be Cortex -A 55 at 1.8 GHz. Therefore, this new SoC will be able to perfectly move applications of daily use and will offer a lower consumption than the current Qualcomm solutions for the Snapdragon range 400.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 brings 5G to the lower-middle range of smartphones

Some features that this SoC brings are support for up to triple camera configuration 64 + 25 + 13 MP , LPDDR4X RAM memory of 2133. The graphic part of the SoC is based on a Adreno GPU 619 , the most powerful in the range. The Snapdragon 480 is, in addition, a processor manufactured at 8 nm, newer than the rest of the series 400. It is expected that during this month of January several models of smartphones with this new SoC will be announced.

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