Phonandroid for holes: Oppo wants to hide the camera hole in the camera icon

How to completely disappear the hole in a hole screen?Oppo gives a solution: hide the camera hole in the camera application icon.A patent in this sense was filed by the Chinese firm, to make this hole an element in its own right of the interface.The patent also specifies that it would be possible to deactivate the functionality.

2017 and 2018 were “notch” years?Everything seems to indicate that 2019 will be a “holes” year: new screens pierced with a more or less large hole to leave the selfie photo sensors, are becoming a real trend in the industry.We have already seen examples at Honor and Samsung - and many manufacturers are interested in it.Among them, Oppo: the Chinese brand, a pioneer on borderless smartphones since the release of its Oppo Find X, is trying to make the visual imprint of this hole disappear, and may have finally found a solution that is both economical and elegantto achieve this.In a patent filed with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO), and taken up by Let's Go Digital, Oppo offers to fully integrate this hole at the interface - to skillfully hide it in the camera icon.

How Oppo thinks of hiding the hole of the screen

Depending on the visuals in the patent annex, the hole can thus be located on the left, right or in the center.When the user scrolls the screen from left to right, the camera icon - expressly drawn to hide this hole - always remains in the same place.One way, we imagine, to remain constant in the way of presenting the interface.In addition, this fixed icon would also be used as a kind of shortcut bar: in case of swipe in this area, the patent shows other icons appear at the top of the screen.Touching the icon would allow you to launch the camera application while a swipe there, once the photo application launched, would allow it to be leaving it.

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Oppo will be present at the MWC 2019 in Barcelona: the manufacturer must launch two new smartphones: the Oppo F19 and F19 Pro.We know that they will take on a 10x optical zoom - one of the very first of its kind.In view of this patent, it is not impossible that it is the first of the brand to also embark a screen to hole.What do you think about this idea ?Share your opinion in the comments.