The under-screen camera has become the next direction for mobile phone manufacturers to overcome, although there are already some under-screen camera mobile phones on the market, including ZTE, Xiaomi, Samsung, etc., but the technology of the under-screen camera is not yet mature, and Apple has also begun to prepare for the next generation of under-screen camera mobile phones.
According to the news reported by foreign media TheElec, Samsung Display is developing a technology for Apple to hide the front camera under the screen panel of the mobile phone. It is reported that this off-screen camera technology will first be applied to folding screen phones released by Samsung next year, and then will be used on high-end mobile phones such as the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.
Because the under-screen camera performance of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 is too poor, Apple does not recognize such solutions, so this under-screen solution will be abandoned, which is also a reason for Samsung to develop a new off-screen camera solution. It is reported that Samsung Display is cooperating with Canadian OTI Lumionics to develop new off-screen camera technology, OTI Lumionics has been focusing on cathode material patterning technology, which can realize some of the more novel display applications of OLED, including transparent cameras, off-screen cameras and sensors.