Flashback: the Oppo N1 turned the camera around on you

30 August 2020
Its rotating camera and other unique features - like the first Google-sanctioned CyanogenMod edition - make the N1 a phone worth remembering.

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YUKI93, 30 Aug 2020Imagine doing this kind of camera rotating mechanism on a b... moreActually this is one of the alternative design I am exploring, but rather than being outside, it would be inside the phone, meaning the mechanism would literally include a part of the display, but still under the protecting glass, meaning no water/dust concern.
The mechanism would "pull in" the upper part of the display while the cameras module get also "retracted" from the inner body, and it rotate 180°.
It wouldn't include all camera, telephoto and macro for exemple doesn't have any logic to be moved in the front, so one horizontal line with : main sensor, wide/ultrawide and ToF that would by able to rotate.
And bellow : portrait, macro and telephoto, allowing them to be periscope as they each have advantages to be taken with longer lenses configuration and optical magnification.

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    • Sharjeel Dar
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    • 30 Aug 2020

    I guess Samsung X600 was the first phone with rotating camera back in 2003 (When i was 10 :p ). Although it was not a motorized mechanism.

      Imagine doing this kind of camera rotating mechanism on a bezelless screen. Not sure if that would work well.

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        • Anonymous
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        • 30 Aug 2020

        legendary phone

          OPPO is the most innovative Chinese smartphone company

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            • Tchtech
            • YMj
            • 30 Aug 2020

            This is the best innovation at that time.

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