Google aiming to replace notch with under-display camera in Pixel phones

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Google aiming to replace notch with under-display camera in Pixel phones - Lemmy.world

A recent patent application [https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/description?CC=EP&NR=4218225A1&KC=A1&FT=D&ND=&date=20230802&DB=&locale=en_EP#] is suggesting that Google is going to replace the notch by an under-display front-facing camera in future Pixel phones. [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6c23a3d0-26a7-4299-bead-a91e84df7a5d.png]

New features are going to get weird and pointless as smartphone sales continue to drop.

To be honest, if the camera was positioned in the average place where a person’s eyes would be in a video call, then we’d finally have eye-to-eye conversations.

But as usual, I want to be able to tell where my camera is, so that I can put some black tape on it.

Don’t they already have a solution for that? Not sure about Android but I remember FaceTime having an option to make it look like you’re looking into the camera instead of down to the center.