Prete Lau, the Chinese entrepreneur and business executive, who is also the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OnePlus recently appeared in his first official podcast with THE VERGE team, taking questions and discussing the latest innovations of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer. As mentioned, Pete Lau is not a native English speaker, so he shared his views with the help of an interpreter on the podcast.
OnePlus have been in the news lately for introducing their all new Concept One McLaren Edition smartphone at the year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with electrochromic glass panel technology, which comes in handy for hiding the rear camera optics on the smartphone, giving a very clean and uninterrupted design. One Plus uses the color-shifting glass technology, that passes current to the glass making it look opaque. This technology was originally used in the McLaren cars for their sunroof, that can go from transparent to opaque in a fraction of a second. On the OnePlus Concept One concept phone, this very electrochromic glass panel can be coupled as an ND (Neutral Density) filter for capturing pictures under bright light. The company also grabbed our attention lately with the announcement of their latest Fluid Display technology that brought QHD+ AMOLED panel with 10-bit HDR support, integrated MEMC (Motion Estimation/Motion Compensation) chip as well as refresh rates upto 120Hz. The screen from OnePlus also featured 240Hz of screen sampling rate at 8.3ms of rendering time.
So there's a lot happening with the manufacturer lately, and when asked about the future of disappearing cameras on commercial smartphones that can actually make it to the consumers, Lau's response was recorded as,
I believe it will. The specific technology is still under development, and from a material perspective, it is close to a state of being ready for the market. But it still needs a significant amount of testing and validation that has to be done on the overall devices before we would actually launch it for the consumers. What's also awesome about this is, there's been a lot of feedback on additional ideas for the functionality of the glass and that gives us more confidence and more excitement before the products can go in the hands of our consumers.The interviewers also asked Pete Lau about what lies ahead of the OnePlus's plans for smartphones featuring foldable display from the company, to which his reply was,
Foldable is actually an example of something that we have looked into but not pursued. That’s because, in looking into the application of what’s currently available for foldable screen technology, we haven’t found that the significant advantage or value that’s brought that isn’t outweighed by the shortcomings or the disadvantages of the current state of the technology.Source: THE VERGE
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