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OPPO punch-hole smartphone hinted by patent filing

January 28, 2019

A new OPPO patent filing with WIPO has been uncovered and it seems to describe a full screen smartphone with a punch-hole for the camera. OPPO already has a full-screen smartphone, the Find X, granted, without a punch-hole, and the Chinese manufacturer managed to build the front-facer inside a slide mechanism to maintain the best screen-to-body ratio possible.

This patent, however, describes the punch-hole approach, and the way OPPO wants to conceal the hole in the display in via the user interface. The punch hole itself will be part of a camera icon, namely its lens.

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