ZTE announces Axon 20 5G smartphone with front camera behind screen

ZTE has officially announced the previously unveiled Axon 20 5G smartphone for the Chinese market. The phone is characterized mainly because it is the first smartphone with the front camera behind the screen.

ZTE states that the placement of the front camera behind the screen has become possible through the combination of a number of techniques, including certain materials, the application of several dual control chips, integrated driver circuits, a special pixel matrix and a self-developed selfie algorithm. The company says it has overcome many technical challenges to move the front camera behind the screen. A ZTE manager has posted a selfie on Weibo, China, to demonstrate the capabilities of the front camera.

To strike a balance between the performance of the display and the 32-megapixel front camera, ZTE has applied material in the screen with a high degree of transparency, so that a little more light falls on the sensor of the front camera. It is believed that ZTE uses technology from the Chinese Visionox for this solution, although this is not confirmed by the smartphone manufacturer.

The Axon 20 5G has a Snapdragon 765G-soc, has a 4220mAh battery that can be charged at 30W and runs on Android 10. The dimensions are 172.1 x 77.9 x 7.98mm and the phone weighs 198g. The OLED screen, which also has a fingerprint scanner behind it, has a diagonal of 6.92 “and a resolution of 2460×1080 pixels. surface of almost 114 square centimeters.The rear cameras are a primary 64-megapixel camera, a camera with an ultra-wide angle lens of 8 megapixels and two 2-megapixel cameras: a macro camera and depth sensor.

The new phone comes in three variants: 6GB ram and 128GB storage, 8GB ram and 128GB and 8GB ram and 256GB. ZTE has announced the arrival of the Axon 20 5G only for the Chinese market, with prices of 2198, 2498 and 2798 Chinese yuan respectively. Converted, this amounts to approximately 270, 307 and 344 euros.