Mobile manufacturers in recent years have experienced different forms of innovation, including the most notable are the arrival of folding mobiles and cameras with huge and impressive sensors. In the case of Xiaomi, these technologies are present in mobile phones such as Mix Flip and Xiaomi 15 Ultra, among others.
However, there is a technology that the manufacturer left a few years ago, as well as one of its most innovative devices lines, the Mi Mix: The cameras under the screen. This year, Xiaomi should incorporate an “infinite” screen with an invisible camera in a new mixture 5, overcoming the obstacles which, so far, have this format.
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Infinite and future screens. Xiaomi can return to the my mix in style series
The Xiaomi my mixture and my mixture 2.
The My Mix series made its debut in 2016 and Xiaomi's idea with these devices had to offer an alternative with a different revolutionary design, betting on new formats and A screen that was the main protagonist front. In the case of the first two generations, these mobiles had a full screen without almost frames in the upper and lateral part, and the front camera was in the lower larger setting.
Over time, we have seen the arrival of Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 with its sliding front camera which was hidden in the body of the mobile. The goal remained the same, have a full screen and almost without frames On the device, without the camera being stolen, some precious panel pixels. This was done with Mi Mix 4 of 2021, which had a camera hidden under the screen.
However, its operation was not ideal, the quality of the images captured by this camera was disappointing, a problem that essentially accompanies all the devices that use this format.
The Xiaomi Mi mixes 4 of 2021, with its front camera hidden under the screen.
The technology of the cameras hidden under the screen is known as “UDC” (acronym of “under display camera”), and this, by design, has certain challenges: it is more complex and expensive to produce, it can have problems of sustainability, the image in this section of the screen is not perfect, and the image quality of photos or videos captured with the UDC camera is not an exceptional light traditional.
Despite this, several manufacturers have adopted UDC technology. One of them, in addition to Xiaomi with his Mi Mix 4, was Samsung, a company that incorporates a Camera under the main or internal screen of its folding mobiles in “fold” format In its most recent models, from the Galaxy Z Fold3 to the Galaxy Z Fold6.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5, like other generations of Samsung folding, has a camera hidden under the screen. (Photo: Xataka)
Even so, this technology continues to evolve. Its design and production are based, at least in part, on the use of a certain number of pixels reduced in this part of the screen and the use of semi-transparent pixels, among other hardware characteristics, in addition to the use of specialized software to overcome the obstacles of these cameras when taking photos.
In the case of my mixture 5, the leaks guarantee that The mobile will have a “invisible” camera under the screenwhich will be “at the highest level of industry” and which will occur en masse “in due time”. Xioami has not forgotten the Mi Mix series, its innovation centered series and unique conceptions, according to filtered information, and plans to return with style to apply the latest advances in UDC technology with the Mi Mix 5. Nothing rejects, in addition, if the company obtains ideal results, it incorporates this type of cameras in more devices or series.
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