A recent patent application is suggesting that Google is going to replace the notch with an under-display front-facing camera in future Pixel phones.

  • circuitfarmer
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    2 years ago

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

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      2 years ago

      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.

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        2 years ago

        People usually end up looking at their own preview anyway, instead of whomever they are calling

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          2 years ago

          I started disabling my own view during zoom meetings because I found myself always looking at myself lol

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        2 years ago

        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.