Although OPPO's first smartphone with a punch-hole display is likely to be Reno3, more such devices may be coming soon, and it seems that the company is developing more of these phones, including lower-priced products.
A new low-end model has been found in the patent archives of the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) that has recently been awarded to OPPO, suggesting that OPPO's budget-grade mobile phone display will also have a punch camera.
Although the OPPO patent does not explicitly mention anything about cheap smartphones, these sketches seem to show new opportunities with physical fingerprint scanners and, more importantly, this device still uses a microUSB port.
With the development of equipment trends in the field of smartphones, almost all mid-range and high-end products have started to have USB-C ports, and in most cases also have fingerprint scanners in the display, so the device in this patent is undoubtedly For low-end models.
If OPPO does continue its plans on this device, it will be the first cheap smartphone with a punch-out front camera. So far, major mobile phone manufacturers have preferred to use various forms of water drop tanks or pop-up camera mechanisms.
We don't know much about the details of this OPPO budget-grade phone. The details we can understand include the volume and power buttons on the left, the cutout on the back that may be used to deploy the four-camera module, and the plug for the LED flash module groove.
Contrary to the latest smartphones, a 3.5mm audio port can also be seen at the bottom of this device. Considering its budget constraints, as more OEMs start shipping devices with 5G connectivity next year, it will be interesting to see what the device's performance configuration will be and how much the price can be explored.
