Thursday, January 14th 2021
Samsung to Introduce OLED-Powered Laptops With Under-Display Webcam
Samsung this year aims to bring OLED panels in laptops closer to mainstream, with the company already announcing it would be scaling its OLED screens to serve the 13,3-16" diagonal-craving population with the best visual quality available. The company is apparently aiming to take this further by investing into under-display webcams, which would prevent machines from shipping with large top bezel designs engineered to accommodate them. It also skirts implementation of other, more exotic solutions such as the one found in the Huawei Matebook X Pro - where the webcam is located in a mechanical pop-up on the keyboard area, and mostly shows viewers the inside of your nostrils.
Samsung says that this under-display design should allow laptop makers to achieve up to 93 percent screen-to-body ratio for an immersive viewing experience. Do keep in mind that such a design was implemented only once in the industry in ZTE's Axon 20 smartphone, which incidentally featured diminished selfie camera and display quality due to it being under-display, which even led to resolution compromises on the area of the display that sits over the camera. The idea in ZTE's phone - and is the same for Samsung here - is that the segment of the OLED display that covers the camera will turn translucent whenever the optics are activated. In the ZTE phone, this resulted in clear quality compromises. We'll see if Samsung fares better. There is currently no time to market on such OLED panels, however.
Source:
Sciencemint
Samsung says that this under-display design should allow laptop makers to achieve up to 93 percent screen-to-body ratio for an immersive viewing experience. Do keep in mind that such a design was implemented only once in the industry in ZTE's Axon 20 smartphone, which incidentally featured diminished selfie camera and display quality due to it being under-display, which even led to resolution compromises on the area of the display that sits over the camera. The idea in ZTE's phone - and is the same for Samsung here - is that the segment of the OLED display that covers the camera will turn translucent whenever the optics are activated. In the ZTE phone, this resulted in clear quality compromises. We'll see if Samsung fares better. There is currently no time to market on such OLED panels, however.
29 Comments on Samsung to Introduce OLED-Powered Laptops With Under-Display Webcam
www.theverge.com/2020/12/21/22191459/zte-axon-20-5g-under-display-camera-hands-on
I think the best news is the OLED itself, lighter thinner and unmatched quality. Even if you're still afraid of burn-in.
Having the camera closer to the center of the screen would also make video chats more "personal" - you would be looking more at eachother than down from the camera.
Even if you aren't concerned about this yourself, you have to admit this technology makes it harder for those that do.
It's like with glossy screens, all-glass smartphones and such. They look beautiful on store shelves and turn out to be horrible when you actually use them, but we all know most people buy with their eyes with no input from the brain.
So no cables or batteries hey. :kookoo: :roll:
Something like a surgical tape is translucent & mostly opaque for all intents and purposes.
This idiotic crusade for thinner bezels keeps pushing the industry to even more stupid ideas every bloody year.Came here to complain about this. -_-
I guess we'd better get used to breaking open new laptops out of the box. As if that isn't becoming increasingly difficult as well.
What a wonderful technology.