For years, Apple has been the reference for companies in design and choice of features. Put a fingerprint and imitate it. You make an aluminum phone and fake it; It even put the bump in the X and turned the world's phones to bump. She canceled the audio port, so everyone followed. But recently we are starting to see the Chinese becoming the pioneers in the field and we have seen some innovations. Is it time for Chinese innovation?

Have Chinese companies stopped copying Apple and became the innovator?

In short .. How is the reality of the world of smart phones?

If a person wants to criticize a company like Apple, he will find hundreds of lines to write, but we are not here to criticize but rather to analyze it. Seven or eight years ago, the presence of Chinese companies was very weak, and there were a few companies that produced smartphones with a global reach and also usable, and these companies were Apple, Samsung, Sony and some other companies, at that time Apple was superior in the concept of a touch-based smartphone that offers various features It makes it more than just a smart phone, but features like these are no longer exclusive two or three years later, as various smartphones appeared that come with touch and the Android system and also a lower price, most notably Samsung phones and the beginnings of the S and Note series.

In the years 2014 and 2015, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus came to us, in addition to the S versions of the two phones, at that time the image changed greatly, as the new phones from Apple came with more logical screen measurements and also with better internal specifications, with the provision of fingerprint technology. Which is the first company Apple has implemented correctly, we can not deny that Apple takes its time before it launches a new technology, but when it launches it fascinates us all. During this period, Samsung phones began to develop dramatically as well, and personally I consider them the strongest competitor to Apple .. However, this period also witnessed another important event, which is the emergence of Chinese companies and their strong entry into the global market, and these companies are Huawei, OPPO and Xiaomi, this to Besides other companies with less penetration like VIVO, OnePlus and here we have to mention BBK, which is the parent company of OPPO, OnePlus and VIVO.

Has Apple stopped innovating and replaced by Chinese companies?

Once upon a time everything was stable, Apple phones are present and Android phones are present, all phones used to come in similar shape and the dimensions of the 16: 9 screen are almost uniform, except that Apple came out after five years of repeating itself on us with the iPhone X-or -i- IPhone 10- This is in the same year it launched the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. The new phone brought us a somewhat new concept in the world of smartphones, which is the full screen (Bezelless), which are screens with very few top, bottom and side edges, meaning that we were about to see a phone without edges, which is what the entire technical community was dreaming about, This is what Microsoft expected in 2012 in its ConceptHere, Apple innovates again, but it doesn't stop here.

CUS– Camera Under Screen technology from OPPO ..

In order for Apple to be able to bring us to a screen that is almost bezel-less, it had to “cram” all the sensors into a piece at the top of the screen, which is what was called the Notch, and here we are talking about a call headphone, the call sensor, and also the front camera, meaning that we are talking about a notch that should not exceed its width Its height is some dictated meters, but the matter has disagreed with Apple, as in order to be able to give us a full-screen phone, it is forced to sacrifice the fingerprint, and since the fingerprint is located at the lower edge, Apple literally abandoned it and replaced it with the FaceID system, let's see from Apple A phone without a fingerprint and with a large notch, but more importantly, it was the first phones that came with a near-full screen (this is if we ignore the Mi Mix / Mi Max phones).

It continued like this, Apple innovates and then imitated by Chinese companies, and in the past two years we have seen dozens of phones that come with imitation of the idea of ​​Apple, some come with a thin full edge such as the Galaxy S8 / Mate 10 and 10 Lite phones, and some came with a very small notch which It was called Water Drop Notch because it resembles a water drop, and some companies have adopted the Face Unlock system through the front camera only, and others have adopted it through sensors such as Apple's such as Xiaomi in phones like Mi 8 and Pocophone F1.

The matter evolved after that, the Chinese companies seem to have stopped imitating, so OPPO started a race with full screen smartphones, and this is with the OPPO Find X phone, this phone used to come with a completely full screen, and this is because the camera was hidden in the Slider that can be opened and closed, this The idea was innovative, but it seemed impractical, but it also appeared in phones like OnePlus 7 Pro and Huawei Y7 Prime 19, too, companies began to adopt the fingerprint sensors built into the screen, a technology that has appeared in phones like the OnePlus 6T and also phones like Sasmung Galaxy A50 with the latter coming at a price of only $ 350! But what about a screen without a notch, a device without a slider, and a camera at the bottom of the screen?

The company OPPO announces the first phone with a full screen

Oppo company, which is a subsidiary of BBK company that also owns OnePlus and Vivo, in addition to that the Oppo company itself has a subsidiary of it called Realme that presented to the world yesterday a complete screen with a camera engraved below the screen! Which means that four Chinese technology companies are able to include this screen in their phones, in addition to the presence of a fingerprint at the bottom of the screen as well!

As you can see in the video above, Oppo not only revealed the event through a press release or the like, but also provided a trial version in the exhibition and it was already tested as in the video. The phone works at full power, except that the area at the top of the screen that covers the camera appears as “pixelated” A little bit, and this is because the camera planted at the bottom of the screen is covered with a transparent and light glass to a large extent so that the camera can absorb light and display the image, and Oppo has added that the same camera comes with a wider light sensor and with larger pixels! The camera will also rely on the software, as is the case in Pixel phones from Google, to adjust the image and balance colors, especially white.

A simplified model for how the new technology works.

So, we are in front of four very powerful Chinese smart phone companies who have come up with an innovation like this, but it is not over, as Xiaomi, which also owns a subsidiary company, Realme, announced on Twitter that it is developing a similar technology, but it was satisfied with that. In fact, she explained through her tweet that her way of developing technology! What struck me is one of the responses to the tweet, which said, “Apple will come with technology like this after six years.” This comment is, in fact, funny and sad at the same time, but it perfectly illustrates the idea of ​​our article.

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