{"id":9105,"date":"2019-06-27T09:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9105"},"modified":"2019-06-27T09:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T23:10:40","slug":"under-screen-cameras-network-free-phone-calls-oppo-had-a-lot-to-show-at-mwc-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/under-screen-cameras-network-free-phone-calls-oppo-had-a-lot-to-show-at-mwc-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-screen cameras &#038; network free phone calls &#8211; Oppo had a lot to show at MWC Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v8.0\" nonce=\"yyfIKneY\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/opposingapore\/videos\/422548868473504\/\" data-width=\"1200\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/opposingapore\/videos\/422548868473504\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/opposingapore\/videos\/422548868473504\/\">MWC Shanghai 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OPPO&#039;s brand new solution for full-screen display &#8211; Under-screen Camera (USC) has just been unveiled at #MWC19 Shanghai! ?#MoreThanTheSeen<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/opposingapore\/\">OPPO<\/a> on Wednesday, June 26, 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oppo have never been afraid to experiment a little when it comes to mobile phones. They were the first to introduce pop-up selfie cameras and play around with notches on smartphones. Now less than a month after teasing an under-screen camera (USC) they&#8217;ve put it in the hands of the public at MWC Shanghai.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The USC works using a redistributed arrangement of pixels under a custom transparent material that Oppo promises preserves full touch controls. With no need for a notch or pinhole in the display the USC&#8217;s sensor can be much larger and more powerful leading to a higher quality camera likely to arrive with any implementation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9107\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9107\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1-380x253.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1-1160x773.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/27124526\/oppo-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Engadget China \u2014 The modified USC area is visible at certain angles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Oppo admit the addition of a screen will affect the quality of the image to some degree they&#8217;re confident they&#8217;ve developed algorithms that are tuned to the hardware, which will address the issues.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"meshtalk-a-decentralised-ad-hoc-communications-network\">MeshTalk: A decentralised, ad-hoc communications network<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the USC&#8217;s first public viewing Oppo also announced a new infrastructure free ad-hoc networking system. Called &#8220;MeshTalk&#8221; the proprietary tech allows people to make phone calls and send messages over a decentralised system up to 3km away. That distance can grow, with other Oppo devices within the area that contain the custom-developed low-powered hardware the network has no theoretical limits beyond land mass.<\/p>\n<p>The new tech is said to have little no affect to the phone&#8217;s battery life and whilst not designed to replace cellular networks could be used in areas that have no internet access or traditional networks are too crowded to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>There were no details given on when MeshTalk is likely to hit market or even what phones, if any already, from Oppo will work with it. Regardless the idea of a truly ad-hoc, decentralised network could eventuate into quite the disruptor and traditional telcos should be shaking in their boots if it ever does take off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MWC Shanghai 2019 OPPO&#039;s brand new solution for full-screen display &#8211; Under-screen Camera (USC) has just been unveiled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}