ZTE will release the first smartphone with a camera behind a screen in the EU in two weeks

ZTE will release the Axon 20 5G, the first smartphone with a behind-screen camera, in the European Union in just over two weeks. The manufacturer has announced this. How much the device will cost is not yet known.

It is a 32-megapixel front camera that looks through a small transparent part of the screen, according to the product page. This is already happening with optical fingerprint scanners behind the screen. The difference is that the software has to convert the image of the front camera into normal photos and thus correct for the obstruction of light by the pixels in front of it. ZTE mentions the use of multiple dual-control chips, integrated driver circuits, a special pixel matrix and a self-developed selfie algorithm.

ZTE presented the phone in September, but has only now announced that it is coming to Europe on December 21. 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 172.1×77.9×8.0mm 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 cameras on the back 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. Prices in China are 2198, 2498 and 2798 Chinese yuan. Converted, that comes down to about 270, 307 and 344 euros, but the VAT has to be added and telephones are often more expensive when released in Europe.